The End of Everything

by M. John Harrison

In a near-future Kent, years after a crisis that nobody can agree on, the government barely functions, the sea is full of new creatures and Europe has been mislaid. Phillip Tennent makes his living on the Channel tideline, collecting whatever washes in. When he pulls from the water something that keeps changing, he has to carry it inland before it undoes everything he thinks he knows. M. John Harrison's novel is shortlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize.