Tove Jansson’s beloved stories, which turn 80 this year, are not cute: they are angry tales of apocalypse and breakdown.

3. There’s a magician on a flying panther The Hobgoblin is a character who appears in the third Moomin book, “Finn Family Moomintroll”. He’s a magician with marvellous magical powers who ...

Novelist Jeanette Winterson has previously described the books as “subversive”, recalling ... Dictionary of Outlandish Words in Finn Family Moomintroll. The combination of the joyfully magical ...