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The End of Everything by M. John Harrison

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Preorder — ships October 13, 2026

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 BOOKER PRIZE

A haunting apocalyptic adventure, and a formidable exploration of what it means to be human in a shifting world, from "one of the very great writers alive today." (China Miéville)

"A book not just about everything but about now.” — Booker Prize Judge citation

Years after an unnamed crisis remade the world, Phillip Tennent makes his living picking through what washes up on a ruined Channel coastline—until he fishes out something he can't explain and can't put back.

The End of Everything is M. John Harrison at his most unsettling: a slyly satirical, quietly devastating vision of a planet running out of certainties, from a writer China Miéville calls "a towering genius of modern fiction."

Spare, strange, and shot through with dark humor, this slim novel asks how much a person—or a species—can lose before "the end" stops meaning anything at all.

Preorder — ships October 13, 2026

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 BOOKER PRIZE

A haunting apocalyptic adventure, and a formidable exploration of what it means to be human in a shifting world, from "one of the very great writers alive today." (China Miéville)

"A book not just about everything but about now.” — Booker Prize Judge citation

Years after an unnamed crisis remade the world, Phillip Tennent makes his living picking through what washes up on a ruined Channel coastline—until he fishes out something he can't explain and can't put back.

The End of Everything is M. John Harrison at his most unsettling: a slyly satirical, quietly devastating vision of a planet running out of certainties, from a writer China Miéville calls "a towering genius of modern fiction."

Spare, strange, and shot through with dark humor, this slim novel asks how much a person—or a species—can lose before "the end" stops meaning anything at all.

  • Publisher: Riverhead Books

    Title: The End of Everything

    Author: M. John Harrison

    On Sale Date: October 13, 2026

    ISBN 13: 979-8217438655

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $30.00

    BISAC: FICTION / Dystopian

    Page Count: 208

    Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.53 x 8.25 inches

    Weight: 1.25 lbs

  • M. John Harrison is the award-winning author of thirteen novels, including Climbers, Nova Swing, and The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Goldsmiths Prize. He served as literary editor of the influential science fiction magazine New Worlds and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2025. The End of Everything is his first appearance on the Booker Prize longlist, at age 81—making him, if he wins, the oldest author ever to receive the prize.

  • Pre-release readers are calling it haunting, oblique, and unforgettable:

    • Booker Prize judges call it "a book not just about everything but about now."

    • The Observer's Helen Macdonald says she doesn't "think I'll read a better book this year."

    • The Telegraph calls it one of the best books of 2026 so far.

    • China Miéville calls Harrison "a towering genius of modern fiction."

This book is for you if:

  • You want a Booker Prize contender that reinvents what a post-apocalyptic novel can do.

  • You love fiction that’s as funny as it is unsettling.

  • You’re a fan of writers like J.G. Ballard or Jeff VanderMeer who blur the line between the real and the uncanny.

  • You’d rather read 208 haunting pages than 600 predictable ones.

  • You want to be able to say you read this before the shortlist announcement.

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