The Ice Museum
Illuminating and consequential…Her depictions are a wonderful mixture of the exact and the fanciful-much the way icebergs will assume shapes that blend the solid and the fantastic.The New York Review of Books
Exceptionally readable... reminiscent of Lawrence Millman’s Last Places and Colin Thubron’s In Siberia... compelling... beautiful...The Times
A legend, a land seen once and then lost forever, Thule was a place beyond the edge of the maps, a northerly dreamland. It was a mystery for thousands of years. Compelled by the cold and remote, Joanna Kavenna decided to go in search of Thule. Her journey took her to Shetland, Iceland, Norway, Estonia, Greenland and Svalbard - into the Arctic wilderness, over frozen seas and ice-mountains.
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Inglorious
Brilliant, paradoxical energy and much last-ditch laughter. Inglorious is a high-risk, one-off...I loved it.Kate Kellaway, The Observer
Inglorious is simply stunning. Honest, brilliant, arresting, and barefisted—for the blows come hard. But it is also a work of art: tart, wise, human, funny, and best of all, without the least trace of sentiment. Kavenna finds humour in the abyss, light in the dark, and ultimately exhilaration at the end of the tunnel.André Aciman
A darkly comic novel about a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown, set against the backdrop of a London awash with faithless lovers, cut throat strivers, and so-called friends.
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