The End of Everything: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2026
Jun 2026 · Serpent's Tail
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* SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026 *
'I don't think I'll read a better book this year, perhaps decade' OBSERVER
'Brilliant' TIMES
'This drily witty fable speaks to our deepest fears' TELEGRAPH
'Haunting' IRISH TIMES
'This is powerful stuff ... Thrilling' MARK HADDON
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.
'A work of genius' NEW SCIENTIST
'I loved this book so much' SARAH JESSICA PARKER
'At once surreal, seductive, shrewdly funny and wholly terrifying' JULIA ARMFIELD
'Visionary and brilliant' CHINA MIÉVILLE
'It will get deep into your bones' CHRIS POWER
'I don't think I'll read a better book this year, perhaps decade' OBSERVER
'Brilliant' TIMES
'This drily witty fable speaks to our deepest fears' TELEGRAPH
'Haunting' IRISH TIMES
'This is powerful stuff ... Thrilling' MARK HADDON
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.
'A work of genius' NEW SCIENTIST
'I loved this book so much' SARAH JESSICA PARKER
'At once surreal, seductive, shrewdly funny and wholly terrifying' JULIA ARMFIELD
'Visionary and brilliant' CHINA MIÉVILLE
'It will get deep into your bones' CHRIS POWER
* SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026 *
'I don't think I'll read a better book this year, perhaps decade' OBSERVER
'Brilliant' TIMES
'This drily witty fable speaks to our deepest fears' TELEGRAPH
'Haunting' IRISH TIMES
'This is powerful stuff ... Thrilling' MARK HADDON
Phillip Tennent makes h...
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Nate Cleary
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August 17, 2026
This was a rambling mess. What was at first an intriguing concept of mental and memory-related effects from warped reality quickly drug on and on and on and on. You will turn page after page expecting the "bit" to be over or for the story to at least transition to some sort of plot or main point, but it doesn't. Really a shame as it could have been an interesting concept.
Dr.Wessam Osman
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July 22, 2026
an absurd, mishmashed incoherent jumble of senseless stories that lead to absolutely nowhere
About the author
M. John Harrison is the award-winning author of many novels, including The Centauri Device, Climbers, The Course of the Heart, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again and Nova Swing. He has won the Boardman Tasker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. He lives in Shropshire.
M. John Harrison is the award-winning author of many novels, including The Centauri Device, Climbers, The Course of the Heart, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again and Nova Swing. He has won the Boardman Tasker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. He lives in Shropshire.
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