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*

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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 Comet in Moominland

Tove’s definitive (1968) edition has been translated for the first time into English. Read the version that the rest of the world have long known and loved.

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Michelle De Kretser Theory & Practice.jpg — Theory & Practice

“An absolute triumph” – The Financial Times
“A lightning strike of a book” – Ali Smith
OUT in PBk 26th Feb 2026

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Rejoin the Ladies’ Lunch table for this bittersweet last course

Lore Segal, Still Talking — Still Talking

+ OUT 12th March 2026
+ introduced by Vivian Gornick
“Friends die, we grow old, but stories survive…we are lucky to have this piercing collection” – TLS

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New & Forthcoming

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Simon Lewis: No Exit

The gripping sequel to Bad Traffic

Pub Feb 2026

Lore Segal: Still Talking

Introduced by Vivian Gornick.

Following her acclaimed Ladies’ Lunch novella, Lore Segal continued to create stories about a fictional group of nonagenarian friends as they faced the last years, months and moments of their lives.

Pub March 2026

Michelle de Kretser: Theory & Practice

New title by the winner of the 2023 Folio Prize

Pbk Pub 26th Feb 2026

Kathleen Jamie: Cairn

An assemblage of new pieces marking the here and now

Pub June 2024

Comet in Moominland

80th Anniversary Edition

Tove’s definitive (1968) edition has been translated for the first time into English. Read the version that the rest of the world have long known and loved.

Pub Oct 2025

Shehan Karunatilaka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Booker Prize 2022 Winner

Lore Segal: Her First American

‘A novel of unmatched vibrancy … Carter Bayoux is one of the great creations of American literature’ – Vivian Gornick

Pub July 2025

Lore Segal: Ladies' Lunch & Other Stories

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