The End of Everything

by M. John Harrison

M. John Harrison’s *The End of Everything* is a near‑future, genre‑defying novel that follows beach‑comber Phillip Tennent and his aunt Marnie in an unnamed Kent‑coast town after an enigmatic alien invasion by the iGhetti. The catastrophe has faded into the background, yet society teeters on the edge of collapse: the media have crumbled, government barely functions, and the seas teem with strange new life. Harrison blends precise, almost journalistic description with unsettling gaps, creating a bleak, haunting apocalyptic adventure that probes what it means to be human in a world where memory, technology, and collective survival are in flux. The novel has been long‑listed for the 2026 Booker Prize and praised for its visionary, unsettling take on contemporary anxieties.