Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is a Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson’s best-loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writers prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It was selected and introduced by Ali Smith and there are afterwards by Philip Pullman, Esther Freud and Frank Cottrell Boyce.