Overview
'One of the most brilliant British writers working today.' Spectator Who decides the rules of the games we play? In August 2007, or thereabouts, a young philosopher leaves Oslo, heading for Greece, on a mission to find Theodoros Apostolakis, the head of the Society of Lost Things. Fortunately, Apostolakis isn't lost, but everything else is: ancient libraries, entire civilisations, priceless books and a beautiful box, once used to play the world-famous game of Seven. The hunt for this small thing, among the countless lost things, becomes an absurdist quest through time and space: from the earliest human societies to the advent of AI. Told, shared and mythologised by our narrator, along with a wild cast of dreamers, philosophers, poets, rebels and optimists, Seven is an extraordinary, uplifting journey through an ever darkening world.
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Author: Joanna Kavenna
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
ISBN: 9780571338153
ISBN 10: 0571338151
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 15 January 2026
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""Joanna Kavenna. What a writer."" - Ali Smith ""A brilliantly unpredictable novelist: whatever you think she might do next, she doesn't."" - Stuart Kelly, Guardian ""Kavenna explores the complex nature of reality and perception with vast imaginative energy and a generous spirit."" - A. L. Kennedy ""To surrender yourself to the revelations of life and then to come back with the assertions of prose: that is the new heroism of the woman writer, and Kavenna is in the vanguard of it."" - Rachel Cusk ""Kavenna is a Very Intelligent Author...Kavenna's satire has bite and often rings uncomfortably true."" - Literary Review
Praise for Joanna Kavenna ""To surrender yourself to the revelations of life and then to come back with the assertions of prose: that is the new heroism of the woman writer, and Kavenna is in the vanguard of it.""--Rachel Cusk, author of Outline ""Joanna Kavenna. What a writer.""--Ali Smith, author of Autumn ""A brilliantly unpredictable novelist: whatever you think she might do next, she doesn't.""--Stuart Kelly, Guardian ""Kavenna explores the complex nature of reality and perception with vast imaginative energy and a generous spirit.""--A. L. Kennedy ""Kavenna is a Very Intelligent Author...Kavenna's satire has bite and often rings uncomfortably true.""--Literary Review
Author Information
Joanna Kavenna's novels include Inglorious, The Birth of Love, A Field Guide to Reality and Zed. Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review, the New Yorker, Esquire and Zoetrope, among other publications. She was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2013.
