Co publisher at Sort of Books is coming to talk about Tove Jansson.

ABOUT SORT OF BOOKS Sort of Books is an independent publishing venture by Mark Ellingham and Natania Jansz, founders of the Rough Guide travel series. They set the company up in 1999 mainly to help their friend Chris Stewart launch his debut book, Driving Over Lemons, which became a surprise UK bestseller (eventually selling more than a million copies).

Fired by its success, they have hand-picked three or four titles each year since. These have included four further Chris Stewart titles, nine remarkable works of fiction that Moomins creator Tove Jansson wrote for adults, most notably The Summer Book, which has sold 100,000 copies, and her three large format illustrated Moomins books.

In 2012 they launched the first ever UK publication of Jansson’s original Moomins book, The Moomins and the Great Flood and, in 2017, the eight…