{"product_id":"the-end-of-everything-m-john-harrison","title":"The End of Everything","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026 · A \u003cem\u003eTimes\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller · Indian subcontinent edition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhillip Tennent makes his living at the tideline on the Kent coast, collecting artefacts that wash up from the Channel. Years have passed since the crisis changed everything, but nobody can say what the crisis actually was. Government barely functions. The seas are full of new creatures. Europe has been mislaid. It feels like the end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Phillip pulls from the water an object he cannot keep — a creature that will not stay the same shape, an artefact he has to carry inland before it takes apart everything he thought he understood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eM. John Harrison's first novel in six years is a slyly satirical post-apocalyptic adventure into the limits of what people are able to understand. The Booker judges called it \u003cem\u003eshimmering and oblique\u003c\/em\u003e; the \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/em\u003e called it \u003cem\u003edusky, casually horrifying, unexpectedly compassionate\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eM. John Harrison\u003c\/strong\u003e sold his first story in 1965 and edited the books pages of \u003cem\u003eNew Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e through the 1970s. His novels include \u003cem\u003eClimbers\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Boardman Tasker Prize; \u003cem\u003eNova Swing\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award; and \u003cem\u003eThe Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize. He was a Booker Prize judge in 2022. He lives in Shropshire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eEdition details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSerpent's Tail paperback, 208 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDistributed in India by Hachette India — for sale in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Pakistan only\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback published 28 July 2026 (first published 18 June 2026)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Serpent's Tail (Profile Books)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52466122129624,"sku":"9781806493753","price":479.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0818\/1471\/6632\/files\/The_20End_20of_20Everything_Book_20Jacket.jpg?v=1789484638","url":"https:\/\/www.readersparadise.co\/products\/the-end-of-everything-m-john-harrison","provider":"Readers Paradise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}