Science & Climate
Editorial: The End of Everything is a novel for our age of permacrisis. Genre boundaries belong to the past
Technology
It didn’t need a novel: even Leave voters understand the damage that has been done, as does the PM. Now all he has to do is persuade his party, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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Kazuo Ishiguro, Jeff VanderMeer, Olivia Laing and other writers weigh in on the publishing world’s genre wars
Who won the Booker Prize in 2026? And what is the "Booker bounce"? Do our quiz to find out.
As the demand for information and transparency about our lives increases, these brilliant books dealt with shadows, mystery, privacy and intimacy, says Guardian commissioning editor Rebecca Liu
He is a sci-fi titan but M John Harrison has just exploded into the mainstream with The End of Everything, an apocalyptic novel set on the Kent coast. Does he really think we have no hope left?
The singer on how being in Pulp prepared him for judging a literary prize, reading 163 books while on tour, and feeling like the odd one out on the panel
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After years on the margins, Harrison’s win for this resonantly disturbing dystopia brings the visionary writer the recognition he deserves
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The 81-year-old’s postapocalyptic novel The End of Everything takes home the £50,000 award
A trip to the Scottish islands, a psychological experiment, a chance encounter in a drugstore… the finalists for this year’s Booker prize reveal their inspirations
With two young kids, two phones and a roughly-two-minute attention span, I tried to read the entire Booker Prize shortlist in seven weeks.
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Shortlisted for the Booker and Baillie Gifford prizes respectively, the novelist and biographer talk about working and living together – and giving a voice to Black queer history
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The author reveals his mastery of comic timing in his narration of this novel about a cash-strapped actor paid to live inside a black leather bag