Wish I Was Here: An anti-memoir by the 2026 Booker-nominee

M. John Harrison

May 2023 · Serpent's Tail

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The inventive memoir from the 2026 Booker-shortlisted author of The End of Everything

'Wish I Was Here is a masterpiece' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk

'It will surprise you, sometimes astound you, and leave you profoundly changed' Jonathan Coe, author of The Rotters' Club

M. John Harrison has produced one of the greatest bodies of fiction of any living British author, encompassing space opera, speculative fiction, fantasy, magical and literary realism. Every book is subversive of genre and united by restless intelligence, experimentation and rebelliousness of spirit.

This is his first memoir, an 'anti-memoir', written in his mid-seventies with aphoristic daring and trademark originality and style, fresh after winning the Goldsmiths Prize in 2020. Many of our most prominent younger writers now recognise him as the most significant British writer of his generation. He is 'brilliantly unsettling' (Olivia Laing), 'magnificent' (Neil Gaiman), 'one of the best writers of fiction currently at work in English' (Robert Macfarlane).

The inventive memoir from the 2026 Booker-shortlisted author of The End of Everything 'Wish I Was Here is a masterpiece' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk 'It will surprise you, sometimes astound you, and leave you profoundly changed' Jonathan Coe, author of The Rotters' Club M. John Har...

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M. John Harrison is the author of, among others, the Viriconium stories, The Centauri Device, Climbers, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, Signs of Life, Light and Wish I Was Here. He has won the Boardman Tasker Prize, the James Tiptree Jr Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Goldsmiths Prize.

M. John Harrison is the author of, among others, the Viriconium stories, The Centauri Device, Climbers, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, Signs of Life, Light and Wish I Was Here. He has won the Boardman Tasker Prize, the James Tiptree Jr Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Goldsmiths P...

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