Adolescent sexuality, boredom, filial guilt, violence and love; the frustrations of life in a small-town rock band; drugs and cigarettes all find their place in these chronicles of Norwegian provincial life, as Carl Frode Tiller explores masculinity in crisis

One of the great contemporary portraits of Nordic Life.

Why does the same stranger keep appearing in the background of a family's holiday photographs? What makes a woman stand mesmerised by two children in a school playground, children she's never met but whose names she knows well? The stories in this title reveals these secrets.

Features the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities.

Special Collectors' Edition lovingly restored to its original stunning design - with fold-out map of Moomin Valley.

The epic of island life that has gripped Finland.

Tove Jansson's penultimate collection of short stories, translated into English for the first time.

A revelation and a gift for all Tove Jansson (and Moomin) fans.