In the aftermath of an unspecified environmental crisis, where strange artefacts wash up on our shorelines and government secrecies leave society unmoored from former shores, a shape-shifting creature is dredged from the tide by a man left to craft his life from the debris washed up on the edge of our world.

In The End of Everything – the highly anticipated new novel from celebrated Goldsmiths Prize-winning author M. John Harrison – this iconic writer of the contemporary weird invites us into the unsettling world he has, over more than half a century, made his own: and prophesises the future frailties of our world too.

In conversation with Forward Prize-winning author Luke Kennard.