
Winner of the Booker Prize 2022
“Recalls the mordant wit and surrealism of Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita…Karunatilaka has done artistic justice to a terrible period in his country’s history.” Tomiwa Owolade, The Guardian
Welcome to Sort Of Books
We are a small independent publisher of both original and classic fiction and non-fiction titles by Shehan Karunatilaka, Tove Jansson, Kathleen Jamie, Michelle de Kretser, Chris Stewart, Lore Segal, Jonathan Buckley, Simon Lewis and other exceptional authors. Our sales and distribution are managed by Profile/Faber.

Celebrating 80 years of the Wonderful Moomins
In this special collaboration between Waterstones, Moomin Characters, and Sort of Books, this 80th Anniversary edition of The Moomins and The Great Flood will help raise money for the humanitarian work of The British Red Cross

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“An absolute triumph” – The Financial Times
“A lightning strike of a book” – Ali Smith
New & Forthcoming
‘A novel of unmatched vibrancy … Carter Bayoux is one of the great creations of American literature’ – Vivian Gornick
Pub 3rd July 2025
New title by the winner of the 2023 Folio Prize
Pub 27th Feb 2025
Five close friends in their 90s meet – as they have for decades – for their monthly ‘ladies’ lunch’ to puzzle over and laugh at the enigmas and affronts of ageing …
Pub March 2023
BESTSELLERS
The sun-lit international bestseller. Nearly 2 million copies sold.
Meet the Moomins in this world famous, much-loved children’s classic
“Endearing, heartwarming, self-deprecating, sometimes surreal.”
‘As close as writing gets to a conversation with the natural world’ Richard Mabey