Joanna Kavenna Books in Order

Kavenna travels through northern regions associated with the legendary land of Thule, from Shetland and Iceland to Greenland and Svalbard. Her account combines encounters with contemporary inhabitants and traces of earlier explorers with a history of ideas about the Arctic.

London journalist Rosa Lane abruptly quits her job, seeking meaning beyond work after her mother's death. Betrayal, eviction, financial pressure, and baffling philosophical questions send her into a darkly comic downward spiral as she attempts to remake her life.

Four interwoven narratives explore childbirth across past, present, and a controlled future. A nineteenth-century doctor's persecution, a novelist's success, a woman's labor, and a forbidden pregnancy connect personal experiences of love with the consequences of rigid social systems.

A narrator escaping suburban life joins widowed survivalist Cassandra White at a dilapidated Lakeland farm. Anger over wealthy outsiders' empty second homes inspires a scheme to reclaim the valley, escalating into a chaotic local rebellion against inequality.

Waitress Eliade Jencks inherits a philosopher friend's celebrated manuscript, but nobody can find it. Her search through Oxford's intellectual circles becomes a surreal journey through metaphysical possibilities, challenging her understanding of reality while she grieves his death.

A robot kills Lionel Bigman in a world dominated by the technology corporation Beetle. Its chief executive blames human error, but the incident threatens faith in the company's supposedly flawless predictive algorithms, unleashing a dark satire about control and human unpredictability.

A young philosopher travels from Oslo to Greece in search of a vanished box once used for the game Seven. The quest draws him through lost books, civilizations, and competing ideas about who makes the rules of human life.