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'Extremely beautiful' OBSERVER
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'Haunting' IRISH TIMES
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
'At once surreal, seductive, shrewdly funny and wholly terrifying' JULIA ARMFIELD
'This is powerful stuff ... Thrilling and disturbing' MARK HADDON
'It will get deep into your bones' CHRIS POWER
'I loved this book so much' SARAH JESSICA PARKER
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The End of Everything 9781800812949 Hardback
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A difficult book
I bought this on the basis of reviews comparing M John Harrison with John Wyndham. Whilst I can see similarities in the story line I really don’t find this book to be in Wyndham’s league at all, the characters are poorly described, hard to understand and the back story is a complete mystery. Very d…
I bought this on the basis of reviews comparing M John Harrison with John Wyndham. Whilst I can see similarities in the story line I really don’t find this book to be in Wyndham’s league at all, the characters are poorly described, hard to understand and the back story is a complete mystery. Very different but not for me I’m afraid.
- Authors:
- Harrison, M. John
- Year Published:
- 2026
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9781800812949
- Number of Pages:
- 208
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Publication Date:
- 18/06/2026
- Publisher:
- Profile Books Ltd
- Language:
- English
- Imprint:
- Serpent's Tail
- SKU:
- 9781800812949