The End of Everything by M John Harrison wins 2026 Booker Prize

12 November 2026

Harrion’s novel is the first science-fiction title to win the literary award, presented annually to English language works, published in Ireland and the United Kingdom.

The End of Everything is the thirteenth novel (lucky for some?) by the British author, and is described as being a “slyly satirical and unsettling post-apocalyptic” story:

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.

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