As heard on BBC R4s Start of the Week, hilarious, insightful and supremely intelligent writingWhat a writer. ALI SMITHEndlessly inventive THE TIMESThoroughly pleasurable TELEGRAPHOne 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 isnt lost, but everything else is ancient libraries, entire civilisations, priceless books and a beautiful box, once used to play the worldfamous 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.

Binding: Hardcover;320 pages; Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 516 g; Dimensions: 143 x 226 x 29

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