Travelling Light by Tove Jansson The precariousness of travel is revealed in this unnerving new collection of stories." Introduced by Ali Smith; Translated for the first time from the Swedish by Silvester Mazzarella; Translated into English for the first time, Travelling Light takes us into new Tove Jansson territory. A professor arrives in a beautiful Spanish village only to find that her host has left and she must cope with fractious neighbours alone; a holiday on a Finnish Island is thrown into disarray by an oddly intrusive child; an artist returns from abroad to discover that her past has been eerily usurped. With the deceptively light prose that is her hallmark, Tove Jansson reveals to us the precariousness of a journey - the unease we feel at being placed outside of our millieu, the restlessness and shadows that intrude upon a summer.

The writer and artist TOVE JANSSON (1914-2001) is best known as the creator of the Moomin stories, which were first published in English sixty years ago and have remained in print since. However, in her fifties she turned her attention to writing for adults, producing a dozen novels and story collections, including the classic, bestselling The Summer Book. Travelling Light, written in Swedish in1987, is published for the first time in English. Sort Of Books have also published The Summer Book, A Winter Book, Fair Play and The True Deceiver. Silvester Mazzarella is the editor and translator of The Poet Who Created Herself; the letters of Edith Södergran (Norvik Press); and Travelling Light by Tove Jansson. He translated six of the stories in this collection. Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge, England. She is the author of Free Love and Other Stories, Like, Hotel World, Other Stories and Other Stories, and Girl Meets Boy. Her novel The Accidental was named the 2005 Whitbread Novel