Search Results for ‘Finland’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 8 matches found

To The Baltic With Bob

In the summer of 2002, two profoundly amateur sailors, Griff and Bob, set off in an elderly yacht for Russia, because, on the map, it looked easier than sailing to Cornwall. They took Baines with them...

A Winter Book

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, taking its cue from over five different...

The Year Of The Hare

Translated from the Finnish by Herbert Lomas, Arto Paasilinna’s “The Year of the Hare” loses none of its enchanting lightness, and it’s easy to see even in English why other translations (such as the...

House of Orphans

“House of Orphans” opens in Finland in 1901, when Finland was still part of the Russian Empire. Eeva, the young orphaned daughter of a revolutionary, is sent from Helsinki to a country orphanage. Once...

Tundra Mouse Mountain

‘What will you dream about tonight, Sari?’
‘I’ll dream about bears or elk calves.’
With touching observations and poignant moments of self-discovery, this picture book follows a trip taken by a mother...

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

“Miss Smilla’s Feeling For Snow” is a novel that has been translated into countless different languages, and even made into a film starring Juliette Binoche. Yet despite the film’s release, the text...

Out Stealing Horses

“Out Stealing Horses” is a beautiful novel, though not in the obvious sense: with its beguiling prose communicating loss and melancholy that even translation cannot tarnish. In 1948, when he is fifteen...

Ice Bears and Kotick

“Ice Bears and Kotick” is the extraordinary true story of a boat journey that two men made for the fun of it. They rowed and sailed through pack ice, past glaciers and icebergs. They survived whales...