Seven

Author: Joanna Kavenna

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) | Fiction: special features

Published on 15^th January 2026 by Faber & Faber in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 288 pages
143mm x 226mm x 29mm | 396g

'What a writer.' ALI SMITH'One of the most brilliant British writers working today.' SpectatorWho 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.