M. John Harrison The End of Everything review and information on the novel by the English writer. Serpent’s Tail will publish the new novel by M. John Harrison, the author from England, on June 18, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication. The novel has been included on the longlist for the 2026 Booker Prize.

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• “Confounding, brilliant … What drives it is the tension from all that strangeness being reported in calm, often drily witty prose.” (The Times)
• “Extremely beautiful and terrifyingly remote. Reading it hit me like a truck … It’s a novel that destabilises you – quite savagely – in the course of its reading. But you’re absolutely not walking away. You’re locked in, and you’re having the time of your life.” (Helen Macdonald, Observer)
• “Dreamlike and baffling, The End of Everything elucidates humanity’s disintegrating existence with strange clarity.” (Michel Faber, The Guardian)
• “This is a formidable book: dusky, casually horrifying, unexpectedly compassionate.” (Financial Times)
• “A memorable, haunting work … a world that’s all the more uncanny on account of its proximity to our own.” (Irish Times)
• “A slyly satirical and unsettling post-apocalyptic adventure into the limits of human understanding from the acknowledged master of science fiction.” (Booker Prize 2026 Jury)

The End of Everything

• Author: M. John Harrison (England)
• Book type: English novel, dystopic novel
• Publisher: Serpent’s Tail
• To be released: June 18, 2026
• Length: 208 pages
• Format: hardcover / ebook
• Prize: £ 16.99
• Longlist Booker Prize 2026
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Blurb of the M. John Harrison novel

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.

Michael John Harrison was born July 26, 1945 in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. He 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.

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