M John Harrison's THE END OF EVERYTHING is longlisted for The Booker Prize 2026!

Congratulations to M John Harrison whose 'visionary and brilliant' novel THE END OF EVERYTHING (Serpent's Tail) has been longlisted for The Booker Prize 2026! 🎊 

Mary Beard, Chair of this year’s judges, said of those that made the cut: ‘Great books have never been written to a single formula. We are confident that our longlist of books has something for everyone. There’s the funny and the unsettling (and in some cases the funny and unsettling); there’s dystopian fantasy and domestic drama; there’s the gritty and the magically mysterious; there are some that will please and some that may shock.’

The panel described THE END OF EVERYTHING as ‘shimmering’ and ‘oblique’, and as ‘a book not just about everything, but about now’. 

You can find the full longlist here; the shortlist is announced at a public event at the Southbank Centre on Tuesday, 22 September 2026. 

Many congratulations to M John Harrison!