The End of Everything

M. John Harrison

ISBN 10: 1800812949 / ISBN 13: 9781800812949

Published by Profile Books Ltd, 2026

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Synopsis:

A 'Book to Read in 2026' in the New Statesman, and Irish Times
A Best New Book in the Daily Telegraph, iNews and New Scientist
A Guardian Summer Read

'At once surreal, seductive, shrewdly funny and wholly terrifying' Julia Armfield

'I don't think I'll read a better book this year, perhaps decade' Helen Macdonald

Phillip Tennent makes his living at the tideline, collecting artefacts that wash up from the Channel. It's been years since the crisis changed everything, but its exact nature remains obscure. Government barely functions, the seas are full of new creatures, Europe has been mislaid. It feels like the end.

Now Phillip has fished out of the water an object he can't keep. A creature that keeps changing. An artefact he must take inland, before it destroys everything he thinks he knows. The End of Everything is a slyly satirical and unsettling post-apocalyptic adventure into the limits of human understanding from the peerless master of contemporary fiction.

'Harrison is without peer as a chronicler of the fraught, unsteady state we're in' Olivia Laing

About the Author: MICHAEL JOHN HARRISON is the author of, among others, the Viriconium stories, The Centauri Device, Climbers, The Course of the Heart, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, Signs of Life, Light and Nova Swing. He has won the Boardman Tasker Prize (Climbers), the James Tiptree Jr Award (Light), the Arthur C. Clarke Award (Nova Swing) and the Goldsmiths Prize (The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again). He lives in Shropshire.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The End of Everything
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Publication Date: 2026
Binding: Hardback
Condition: New