The Post Office Girl

by Stefan Zweig

“Just finished reading this beautiful, fast-moving, tragic novel. Written in the 1930s...it will haunt me for a long while” Neil Tennant, The Pet Shop Boys

Cinderella meets Bonnie and Clyde in Zweig’s posthumous classic, available here in English for the first time.

Bad Traffic

by Simon Lewis

Introducing a major new crime writer.

“Inspired writing. Bad Traffic is a honey: suspense that never loses its grip.” Elmore Leonard

The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets

Short stories by Sophie Hannah

First ever short story collection by acclaimed and best selling author of Little Face and Hurting Distance.

The Secret’s finally out…but beware, once you’ve read Sophie Hannah’s fantastic stories, everyday life will never seem the same again...

Introduced by Ali Smith

Fair Play

A novel by Tove Jannson

Published for the first time in English, Tove Jansson considers the role of love and work, in this quietly radical and inspiring novel.

“So what can happen when Tove Jansson turns her attention to her own favourite subjects, love and work, in this novel about two women, lifelong partners and friends? Expect something philosophically calm - and discreetly radical. Its publication is cause for huge celebration.”  Ali Smith, from her introduction to Fair Play.

The Claude Glass

by Tom Bullough

A brand new novel by a major young talent

“Immensely powerful and evocative – this portrayal of life in rural Wales through the eyes of children is convincing and magical.”  Victoria Hislop

“ A superb book from the border, bright, full of truth, romantic and real. The Claude Glass feels like the beginning of something serious and remarkable: an honourable successor to Bruce Chatwin’s On the Black Hill, springing from the same ground.”  Horatio Clare, author of Running for the Hills

The Winter Book
Selected Stories

by TOVE JANSSON

Following the success of The Summer Book, a surprise SORT OF BOOKS bestseller in 2003, we are delighted to be launching a brand new collection of short stories, A Winter Book.

The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society

by CHRIS STEWART

Sort Of Books have sold more than a million copies of Chris Stewart’s first two books, Driving Over Lemons (1999) and A Parrot in the Pepper Tree (2002).

In June 2006 we publish his eagerly awaited sequel, The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society.

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