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.
M. John Harrison is the closest thing we have to a present-day Wyndham or Ballard - New Statesman
A work of uncanny beauty, tender and terrifying in equal parts - Literary Review
The End Of Everything is at once surreal, seductive, shrewdly funny and wholly terrifying. It proves (yet again) that M. John Harrison is a complete original, and one of the finest working writers we have - Julia Armfield
The End of Everything, a novel of absences and apparitions, of things almost recognised and far from understood, has little to do with the details, and everything to do with the tenor of how we live now. It will get deep into your bones - Chris Power
To take the boisterous trope of the "alien invasion" and render it into this visionary and brilliant investigation of anxious times is breath-taking chutzpah. Of which we are lucky to be the beneficiaries - China Miéville
M John Harrison writes astonishingly on the page of course, but he must also be doing something else. This book is both a dream and the dream state itself. I don't know what else to say - it feels beyond reading. Disturbing and yet revelatory. He's changed the world here." - Ben Pester, author of The Expansion Project
Reminded me of J. G. Ballard ... an addictive, obsessive and digressionary novel about the mundanity of post-apocalyptic life, lives we might be living already. - The International Times
An eerie, speculative novel of crisis and its aftermath - iNews Best New Books of June 2026
