The End of Everything

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2026

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A 'Book to Read in 2026' in the Guardian, New Statesman, and Irish Times

A 'Best Book in 2026 So Far' in The Daily Telegraph

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

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

'The best science-fiction book of the year so far has only just been published' - Emily Wilson, New Scientist

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.

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

'It will get deep into your bones' Chris Power

ISBN:
9781800812949
Format:
Hardback
Pages:
208
Published:
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Imprint:
Serpent's Tail
Weight:
322 g