"You're dealing with a language which – however much people try to renegotiate it – is still stacked towards an outmoded system of social values." Joanna Kavenna dissolves into laughter, her ...

The future is complicated. But that isn’t why Joanna Kavenna’s new dystopian novel “Zed” (Doubleday, 336 pp., ★★★½ out of four stars) triggers an unsettling buzz inside your brain that lasts long ...

This brainy dystopian satire sees a tech giant disclaim responsibility for terrifying mishaps befalling citizens of the near future A swarming techno-dystopia set in London four years hence, Joanna ...

Joanna Kavenna writes as if possessed, as if on a mission, as if she had been taken over by her wonderful, impossible, dynamic leading character. There is no stopping Cassandra White. It is a name ...

Kavenna’s new existentialist novel, A Field Guide to Reality, could not avoid questions of perception, so she asked Mighty Boosh collaborator Oly Ralfe to illustrate her strange vision of an ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The award-winning novelist on the beauty and agonies of life, grief and why philosophy should be for everyone Joanna Kavenna is a novelist and travel writer. She is the author of four novels, ...

The Birth of Love’s four viewpoints are reminiscent of a baby Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell’s masterpiece, which features six interconnected stories). Baby in the sense that it’s a smaller-scale take on ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Last month I was fortunate enough to be named as one of the 20 Granta Best of Young British Novelists. The day after the announcement ...

Sherlock holmes tugging on his pipe in the fog-drenched London streets, Philip Marlowe swilling whiskey, waiting for the phone to release him from the solitude of his seedy office, Fitz – ‘Cracker’ – ...

In the distinguished tradition of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, the unnamed narrator of Joanna Kavenna’s new novel, Come to the Edge, is a pliant, somewhat hesitant and insecure woman, swept up in a ...