The Scottish author on a masterclass from Toni Morrison, the brilliance of Simone de Beauvoir and the trim novel by Tove Jansson containing everything that really matters
My earliest reading memory
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Nick Harkaway: ‘I loathed Charles Dickens – it nearly turned me off reading for ever’ ○
The author on his secret theories about Tolkien, the most perfect and terrifying Moomin book, and how his father, John le Carré, inspired him
My earliest reading memory
I read The Lord of the Rings b…
8 months ago
Travels in Moominland: summer in Tove Jansson’s Finland ○
The children’s book author spent the precious long Nordic days in simple, off-grid cabins on small dreamy islands – a tradition many Finns still follow
It’s after 10pm and the sky has only just lost t…
9 months ago
The Guardian view on the Moomins at 80: in search of a home | Editorial ○
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Tove Jansson’s magical stories provide a message of tolerance, inclusivity and hope amid today’s refugee crisis
All Moomin fans will recognise the turreted blue house that is home to the family of gen…
13 months ago
Play that funky noise intoner! The rumblers, gurglers and howlers of the world’s strangest orchestra ○
With their funnel-like hooters and cupboard-like shapes, they looked bizarre, sounded wild and left audiences baffled. Now, more than 100 years on, Luigi Russolo’s orchestra of futurist machine instr…
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