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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 'I don't think I'll read a better book this year, perhaps decade' - Helen Macdonald, The Observer 'Harrison is without peer...
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A slyly satirical and unsettling post-apocalyptic adventure into the limits of human understanding from the peerless master of contemporary fiction
A slyly satirical and unsettling post-apocalyptic adventure into the limits of human understanding from the peerless master of contemporary fiction
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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
'I don't think I'll read a better book this year, perhaps decade' - Helen Macdonald, The Observer
'Harrison is without peer as a chronicler of the fraught, unsteady state we're in' - Olivia Laing
'The best science-fiction book of the year so far has only just been published' - Emily Wilson, New Scientist
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.
'At once surreal, seductive, shrewdly funny and wholly terrifying' - Julia Armfield
'It will get deep into your bones' - Chris Power
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781800812949
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 22 September 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Serpent's Tail
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 218.0mm
Weight: 340g
Pages: 208
About the Author
M. John Harrison is the award-winning author of many novels, including The Centauri Device, Climbers, The Course of the Heart, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again and Nova Swing. He has won the Boardman Tasker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. He lives in Shropshire.
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