Cult author M. John Harrison is going on tour with his latest genre-blending novel, The End of Everything, out from Serpent’s Tail 18th June. Come along to an event to hear one of the masters of contemporary fiction talk about his electric new dystopia – a collision between the Gothic, the road movie and the seaside novel.

Blackwell’s Oxford with Ben Pester, 15th June

London Review Bookshop with Julia Armfield, 18th June SOLD OUT

Southbank Centre’s Indie Night, 24th June

Blackwell’s Edinburgh with Nina Allan, 2nd July

Bookhaus Bristol, 14th July

Foyles Charing Cross Road With Chris Power, 21st July

Edinburgh Book Festival, 18th August

Birmingham Literary Festival, 11th October

Manchester Literature Festival, 20th October

A ‘Book to Read in 2026’ in the Guardian, New Statesman, and Irish Times
A ‘Best Book in 2026 So Far’ in the Daily Telegraph

‘At once surreal, seductive, shrewdly funny and wholly terrifying’ Julia Armfield

‘It will get deep into your bones’ Chris Power

‘Harrison is without peer as a chronicler of the fraught, unsteady state we’re in’ Olivia Laing

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. The End of Everything is a slyly satirical and unsettling post-apocalyptic adventure into the limits of human understanding from the peerless master of contemporary fiction.

M. John Harrison is the author of, among others, the Viriconium stories, The Centauri Device, Climbers, The Course of the Heart, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, Signs of Life, Light and Nova Swing. He has won the Boardman Tasker Prize, the James Tiptree Jr Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. He lives in Shropshire.

Follow Mike at his blog and on Instagram @m_john_harrison