Field Ramble with M.John Harrison

Few writers have reshaped British speculative fiction as quietly, or as radically, as M. John Harrison. Over a career spanning more than five decades, he has dismantled genre tropes across science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction—earning accolades from the Arthur C. Clarke Award to the Goldsmiths Prize. Hailed by writers including Olivia Laing and Robert MacFarlane as one of the most brilliant prose stylists alive today, his work is instantly recognisable.  Beautifully strange, subversive and written with a poet’s economy.  

Now, in his latest, Booker-longlisted novel The End of Everything, he confronts the corrosive and alien presence of capitalism in a world inexplicably unraveling. Refusing easy answers or heroic arcs, the reader is taken to  an England where the disaster at hand is too vast, complex, and banal to fully articulate. A society where adaptation is the stuff of fiction and whose inhabitants can only think to keep going as an apocalypse of sorts rumbles on. It is eerily familiar stuff - a world unmoored from truth and made hostile by the reflex to exploit.

PRAISE FOR THE END OF EVERYTHING

‘M.John Harrison is the closest thing we have to a present-day Wyndham or Ballard’ - The New Statesman 

The End of Everything elucidates humanity's disintegrating existence with strange clarity' - The Guardian 

'At once surreal, seductive, shrewdly funny and wholly terrifying' - Julia Armfield

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