The End of Everthing

* WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026 *’I don’t think I’ll read a better book this year, perhaps decade’ OBSERVER’Brilliant’ TIMES’This drily witty fable speaks to our deepest fears’ TELEGRAPH ‘Haunting’ IRISH TIMES’This is powerful stuff … Thrilling’ MARK HADDONPhillip 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.