Winter BookDrawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the 20th century, this translated selection provides a showcase of Tove Jansson's prose, scattered with insights and home truths.

high-speed shoot-outs

Identitarians

A troubled childhood strengthens Jane Eyre's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she becomes governess at Thornfield Hall

personal account

Alison Light met the radical social historian

He is as sharp and funny and serious in death as he was in life itself

from Ndali and the place he called home

this book is packed full of phenomenal food - pure and simple

As she discovers the stories of the other creatures who live in the tree

Hua Mulan - these are men and women who all dared to be different

dangerous and remote regions of the world

through triumphs of bravery