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  • Audiobook

    Art in Nature

    by Tove Jansson ...
    Narrated by Sophie Winkleman ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 54 min

    Immerse yourself in this riveting short story collection where art takes center stage - but not always for the better.Journey with an elderly caretaker who resolves a couple's spat over a painting, revealing the art market's complexities. Follow a draughtsman whose obsession with locomotives derails his love life, and a cartoonist who risks his sanity to fill in for a troubled colleague.Through ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Notes from an Island

    by Tove Jansson, Tove Jansson, Tuulikki Pietilä ...
    Narrated by Sandi Toksvig ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 25 min

    Set against the rugged backdrop of Klovharun, a barren skerry in the Gulf of Finland, ´Notes from an Island´ invites you into the intimate world of Tove Jansson and her partner, graphic artist Tuulikki Pietilä, known affectionately as "Tooti."Aided by Brunstroem, an unconventional fisherman, Jansson races against time and the elements to build a cabin that would serve as their sanctuary for thirty ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Fly Trap

    by Fredrik Sjöberg ...
    Translated by Thomas Teal ...
    Fredrik Sjöberg's Swedish bestseller about summer, islands, freedom and boundaries.'The light, the warmth, the smells, the mist, the birdsong - the moths. Who can sleep? Who wants to?'Fredrik Sjöberg finds happiness in the little things. Millions of them, in fact. This beguiling bestseller is his unique meditation on collecting hoverflies. It is also about living on a remote Swedish island, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Fair Play

    by Tove Jansson, Tove Jansson ...
    Narrated by Emma D'Arcy ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 23 min

    Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation.´Fair Play´ is a poignant portrayal of the intricacies of love and work through the lens of two women, both accomplished artists, whose intimate relationship defied societal norms.Set against the backdrop of Helsinki and summers on their remote island paradise, Jansson weaves together the nuanced details of the women's creative lives, offering ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The True Deceiver

    Translated by Thomas Teal ...
    by Tove Jansson ...
    A New York Review Books OriginalWinner of the Best Translated Book AwardFeaturing an introduction by Glyph author Ali SmithThe bestselling author of The Summer Book offers a haunting suspense novel about corruption and innocence, truth and art—hailed “as one of [Jansson’s] greatest” (The New Yorker).“A dark companion to her glowing The Summer Book. Here the setting i... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Ice

    by Ulla-Lena Lundberg ...
    Translated by Thomas Teal ...
    In the summer of 1947, a young priest, Petter, his wife and baby daughter, arrive by mail boat at a tiny island. They are to take over its drafty homestead from where Petter is to minister to the scattered community. In this evocative tale, Ulla-Lena Lundberg draws us into the minutiae of an austere yet purposeful life where the demands of self-sufficiency - cows to milk and sheep to graze - are ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Sun City

    by Tove Jansson ...
    Translated by Thomas Teal ...
    From the author of The Summer Book and creator of the Moomins, an off-beat novel about a retirement community in sunny Florida.In The Summer Book and The True Deceiver, as in her many short stories, Tove Jansson was drawn again and again to the everyday life of the aged. Not as a group apart but as full-blooded people with as many jealousies, urges, and joys as any other group. It’s no wonder that ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Fair Play

    by Tove Jansson ...
    Translated by Thomas Teal ...
    Fair Play is the type of love story that is rarely told, a revelatory depiction of contentment, hard-won and exhilarating.Mari is a writer and Jonna is an artist, and they live at opposite ends of a big apartment building, their studios connected by a long attic passageway. They have argued, worked, and laughed together for decades. Yet they’ve never really stopped taking each other by surprise. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Woman Who Borrowed Memories

    Selected Stories

    by Tove Jansson ...
    Translated by Thomas Teal, Silvester Mazzarella ...
    Series series NYRB Classics
    26 “spare, slightly off-kilter stories” explore loneliness, family, aging, and creativity in this short story collection from the beloved Finnish author of The Summer Book and creator of Moomins (Kirkus Reviews).NYRB Classics Original: Now in English for the first time and presented by New York Times-bestselling author Lauren Groff.Tove Jansson was a master of brevity, unfolding worlds at a touch. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Letters from Klara

    by Tove Jansson, Tove Jansson ...
    Narrated by Indira Varma ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 33 min

    FINALIST FOR THE 2025 AUDIO PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION AUDIE AWARD FOR BEST SHORT STORY COLLECTION.In this collection comprising of thirteen short stories, Jansson masterfully crafts unsettling narratives that delve into unexpected connections, awkward encounters, and solitary momentsFrom reconnecting with childhood friends in "Party Games" to exploring the theme of ageing in "Trip to the Riviera", ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Cop Killer

    A Martin Beck Police Mystery

    by Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö ...
    Narrated by Tom Weiner ...
    Series Audiobook 9 - The Martin Beck Police Mysteries

    Unabridged

    8 hours 9 min

    In the penultimate installment of this masterful crime-fiction series, Martin Beck, now head of the National Murder Squad, is called in to a sleepy part of the countryside to investigate a woman’s disappearance. What Beck doesn’t know is that the woman has already been murdered, her body dumped in a swamp. At the same time, a midnight shoot-out between three cops and two teenage boys ends with one ... Read more

    $23.75 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Abominable Man

    A Martin Beck Police Mystery

    by Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö ...
    Narrated by Tom Weiner ...
    Series Audiobook 7 - The Martin Beck Police Mysteries

    Unabridged

    5 hours 29 min

    Martin Beck faces one of the greatest challenges of his professional life when his investigation unearths evidence of police corruption and brutality in this incredible seventh novel in the Martin Beck mystery series.The bloody murder of a police captain in his hospital room exposes the particularly unsavory history of a man who spent forty years practicing a horribly brutal brand of strong-arm ... Read more

    $19.55 CAD