Joanna Kavenna (Author) Joanna Kavenna is the author of The Ice Museum, Inglorious (which won the Orange Prize for New Writing), The Birth of Love, Come to the Edge and A Field Guide to Reality. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Guardian, Observer, Telegraph, Spectator, London Review of Books and New York Times and she has held writing fellowships at St Antony's College Oxford and St John's College Cambridge. In 2011 she was named as one of the Telegraph's 20 Writers Under 40 and in 2013 was listed as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. She lives in Oxfordshire.Oly Ralfe (Illustrator) Oly Ralfe is an artist, film-maker and musician. He collaborated with The Mighty Boosh and has recorded four music albums as Ralfe Band, including the soundtrack to the film Bunny and The Bull. His documentary films and music videos have won several awards.
A Field Guide to Reality is an extraordinary, wise, funny, adventurous and hallucinogenic book that combines fiction with gleefully warped fact. Kavenna explores the complex nature of reality and perception with vast imaginative energy and a generous spirit. - A. L. KennedyA novel so utterly startling and inventive, it's almost an act of resistance. Joanna Kavenna is a true literary insurgent: bravely unconventional and ruthless in her quest to demonstrate the possibility of deep, distinctive experience. - Miriam ToewsA gripping mystery story, a sprightly tour through Western philosophy, and a thoughtful investigation of the meaning of life, death and the universe. A beautifully written novel - Apostolos Doxiadis, author of LogicomixAn absolute knock-out - had me laughing again and again, and feeling very moved at the end. Such a stylish performance - an iron fist in a velvet glove - Chris Cleave, on Come to the EdgeKavenna is HILARIOUS, one of the funniest, and edgiest, writers I've read (and that's saying something) - A. M. ScanlonHugely - gigantically - enjoyable . . . One of the most entertaining, fluent and readable novelists around - Observer, on Come to the EdgeLaugh? I nearly exploded reading Kavenna's knock-out satire on alternative lifestyle - Daily Mail, on Come to the Edge
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