# end everything (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover end everything. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Disappearers - Marlon James](https://chrisb.bearblog.dev/the-disappearers-marlon-james/) _2026-08-20 · chrisb · Chris Bissette_ This is what AIDS is after all, isn't it \[...\] ## [the magical mystery tour (6)](https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/the-magical-mystery-tour-6/) _2026-08-19 · uzwi · the m john harrison blog_ Signing queue, flying books, running man, immense flagstones, observed in a corridor at the Edinburgh festival. And here are all the brilliant answers to the Booker Longlist Writers’ questionnaire. ## [Switzy - Emma Cline](https://chrisb.bearblog.dev/switzy-emma-cline/) _2026-08-18 · chrisb · Chris Bissette_ Switzy is the twelfth book from this year's \[...\] ## [John of John - Douglas Stuart](https://chrisb.bearblog.dev/john-of-john-douglas-stuart/) _2026-08-17 · chrisb · Chris Bissette_ I almost didn't want to write this review \[...\] ## [The Shadow of the Object - Chloe Aridjis](https://chrisb.bearblog.dev/the-shadow-of-the-object-chloe-aridjis/) _2026-08-17 · chrisb · Chris Bissette_ The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis is the \[...\] ## [The Palm House - Gwendoline Riley](https://chrisb.bearblog.dev/the-palm-house-gwendoline-riley/) _2026-08-17 · chrisb · Chris Bissette_ Something that's struck me about a few of the books on \[...\] ## [All Them Dogs - Djamel White](https://chrisb.bearblog.dev/all-them-dogs-djamel-white/) _2026-08-16 · chrisb · Chris Bissette_ I'm not going to bury the lede here \[...\] ## [Black Bag - Luke Kennard](https://chrisb.bearblog.dev/black-bag-luke-kennard/) _2026-08-16 · chrisb · Chris Bissette_ I will not be surprised if Black Bag wins the Booker Prize this \[...\] ## [Helen of Nowhere - Makenna Goodman](https://chrisb.bearblog.dev/helen-of-nowhere-makenna-goodman/) _2026-08-16 · chrisb · Chris Bissette_ Helen of Nowhere is the fifth book on this year's Booker Prize longlist that I've read, and it's easily the \[...\] ## [The Renovation - Kenan Orhan](https://chrisb.bearblog.dev/the-renovation-kenan-orhan/) _2026-08-15 · chrisb · Chris Bissette_ The Booker really does love a migrant novel. It has \[...\] ## [Find it on Amazon (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/sV7g5tPrVBWe) _2026-08-15 · **Sponsored**_ Open the Amazon product listing to see details and availability ## [The Vivisectors - Missouri Williams](https://chrisb.bearblog.dev/the-vivisectors-missouri-williams/) _2026-08-14 · chrisb · Chris Bissette_ I finished The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams yesterday \[...\] ## [M John Harrison - The End Of Everything](https://chrisb.bearblog.dev/m-john-harrison-the-end-of-everything/) _2026-08-13 · chrisb · Chris Bissette_ I've just finished M. John Harrison's The End of Everything, which \[...\] ## [The Things We Never Say - Elizabeth Strout](https://chrisb.bearblog.dev/the-things-we-never-say-elizabeth-strout/) _2026-08-13 · chrisb · Chris Bissette_ I finished this in bed last night, having \[...\] ## [May We Feed The King - Rebecca Perry](https://chrisb.bearblog.dev/may-we-feed-the-king-rebecca-perry/) _2026-08-13 · chrisb · Chris Bissette_ I haven't posted here in a while because I've \[...\] ## [alien people, clutching their goods](https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/19236/) _2026-08-13 · uzwi · the m john harrison blog_ \[T\]he weird, and its capacity to alienate, matters. At its best it stops being a fantastical escapism and loosens our grip on our own realities just enough to let a new one in. As Harrison puts it in Wish I Was Here: “The weird is a way of writing about the real.” Seek out the weird. \[ \] ## [& there’s also this](https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/theres-also-this/) _2026-08-11 · uzwi · the m john harrison blog_ The End of Everything on BBC R4 Take 4 Books, this Sunday 16th, at 16:00. Tune in and have a listen to me James Crawford chatting about the book and three of its many indirect precursors. Lots of other events to come, beginning with this pivotal point on the Magical Mystery Tour on the \[ \] ## [Wrecks by Matt Hill](https://www.ninaallan.co.uk/?p=7288) _2026-08-06 · Nina · The Spider's House_ Jim Sorrel is an engineer. He works for Lescure, an elite rally team, and more specifically for Teddy Moon, son of legendary racing driver Aled Moon and a champion in his own right. Sorrel s life is forced off the track when Teddy and his co-driver Eric suffer a cataclysmic accident but who is to \[ \] ## [and there’s this](https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/and-theres-this/) _2026-07-30 · uzwi · the m john harrison blog_ A care package from New York. Nice to find myself back in the USA, at Riverhead, under the umbrella of Penguin Random House and in company like this. The End of Everything publishes on 13th October 2026. More details as I have them. Addendum: Funnily enough, Jynne Dilling, VP Deputy Publisher at Riverhead, a \[ \] ## [there’s this](https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/theres-this/) _2026-07-30 · uzwi · the m john harrison blog_ ## [Into the Badlands by John L. Williams](https://www.ninaallan.co.uk/?p=7384) _2026-07-25 · Nina · The Spider's House_ There are books that happen along at just the right moment. I ll never forget reading Maria Gainza s Optic Nerve a paean to art in the form of an experimental, autofictional novel in the early spring of 2022. The war in Ukraine had just begun, and Gainza s book was the only thing that came \[ \] ## [Meet Claude, the AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/kq9rPQDF9mj8) _2026-07-25 · **Sponsored**_ Conversational AI to answer questions, brainstorm ideas, and help with tasks. ## [the magical mystery tour (5)](https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/the-magical-mystery-tour-5/) _2026-07-22 · uzwi · the m john harrison blog_ Great audience at Foyles Charing Cross Road yesterday evening for a gig with the magisterial Chris Power. We enjoyed ouselves we hope you did too. Some well-known faces very familiar ones. The 6th floor at Foyles has become one of my safe spaces, so thanks guys. Thanks Chris, everyone who came to \[ \] ## [conjuring a general epistemological collapse r us](https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2026/07/18/conjuring-a-general-epistemological-collapse-r-us/) _2026-07-18 · uzwi · the m john harrison blog_ In a post-apocalyptic Britain, haunted by strange lifeforms called iGhetti and cut off from mainland Europe by fog, people flock to boats to emigrate. Money has failed. The fabric of reality has changed. There is full-on body horror here, but the deepest terror of the novel is in how perfectly it conjures a general epistemological \[ \] ## [the magical mystery tour (4)](https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2026/07/16/the-magical-mystery-tour-4/) _2026-07-16 · uzwi · the m john harrison blog_ BookHaus, Bristol, Tuesday 14th July. Warm sunny, crowds watching the football late into the evening. I had a glass or two of wine to celebrate to myself the changes of the last few years. ## [Memories of Marion Scott](https://www.ninaallan.co.uk/?p=7377) _2026-07-13 · Nina · The Spider's House_ Marion Scott was born in Croydon on New Year’s Day 1935. Her father, Douglas Scott, had grown up in Glasgow and after working there for some years as a shipping clerk he moved south, founding his own business importing coffee and other products. Marion’s mother Evelyn was the sister of a London business colleague. The \[ \] ## [Ursula K Le Guin Prize Shortlist 2026](https://chrisb.bearblog.dev/ursula-k-le-guin-prize-shortlist-2026/) _2026-07-13 · chrisb · Chris Bissette_ The shortlist for this year's Ursula K Le Guin Prize has been announced, and \[...\] ## [a progress report on the end of everything](https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2026/07/08/a-progress-report-on-the-end-of-everything/) _2026-07-08 · uzwi · the m john harrison blog_ We ve had a very satisfying three weeks since launch, with through-the-tills sales figures that made us gasp and which propelled the book into the top ten of the Times Bestseller list an event previously missing from the fifty year timeline of my so-called career. Much of this has been due to work put in by the \[ \] ## [(untitled)](https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2026/07/07/19137/) _2026-07-07 · uzwi · the m john harrison blog_ ## [Historical Dagger 2026: A Granite Silence](https://www.ninaallan.co.uk/?p=7372) _2026-07-06 · Nina · The Spider's House_ So while this was happening in Edinburgh this was being awarded in London! As I was already scheduled to chair M. John Harrison s event at Blackwell s I was unfortunately unable to attend the CWA dinner and Dagger award ceremony in London last Thursday, July 2nd. I had made a video to be played in case \[ \] ## [Talbot & The Fall: a Comedy (with Support) by Michael Nath](https://www.ninaallan.co.uk/?p=7358) _2026-07-05 · Nina · The Spider's House_ The Fall came into being in 1976, the year of the long, hot summer, fifty summers ago today. I was ten years old. A friend s older brother was heavily into them, alongside Joy Division. There s no way I d have got The Fall back then. It s only now that I can hear them for real, the \[ \] ## [the magical mystery tour (3)](https://ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2026/07/03/the-magical-mystery-tour-3/) _2026-07-03 · uzwi · the m john harrison blog_ Blackwell s on Bridge St Edinburgh, Thursday night. Nina Allan chairs; I say the words explanatory collapse a lot; a great night is thus ensured for all. Later we go to the Italian restaurant that used to be one of RLS s favourite drinking holes, where I lose my favourite signing pen, Nina finds out that she s \[ \] ## [Trade Bitcoin & Ethereum (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7QCzFbDuV8JH) _2026-07-03 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell and margin trade BTC & ETH with fiat currencies ## [‘Unless we can learn from them, we don’t even know what we’re seeing’: Memory and mortality in M. John Harrison’s The End of Everything.](https://www.ninaallan.co.uk/?p=7332) _2026-06-18 · Nina · The Spider's House_ ‘The world’s over. But that doesn’t matter, because another one will be along soon enough.’ (M. John Harrison, The End of Everything.) In M. John Harrison’s 2017 short story ‘The Crisis’, the City of London has become what we might recognize from some of his earlier fictions as an event site. ‘No one was sure \[ \] ## [David Hockney 1937 – 2026](https://www.ninaallan.co.uk/?p=7355) _2026-06-12 · Nina · The Spider's House_ David Hockney changed the world just by looking at it, writes Jonathan Jones in today s Guardian. His art was a feast of unabashed visual pleasure, one long orgy of the gaze, the delighted lifelong epiphany of someone who cherished flowers in a vase and freeways in the sun and thought endlessly about new ways of \[ \] ## [The Malt Whisky Murders - Natalie Jayne Clarke](https://chrisb.bearblog.dev/the-malt-whisky-murders-natalie-jayne-clarke/) _2026-06-11 · chrisb · Chris Bissette_ This book coincided nicely with my renewed interes\[...\] ## [Deception Point - Dan Brown](https://chrisb.bearblog.dev/deception-point-dan-brown/) _2026-06-10 · chrisb · Chris Bissette_ I read Dan Brown's latest Robert Langdon book The Secret Of Secrets last year \[...\] ## [Every One Still Here by Liadan Ni Chuinn](https://www.ninaallan.co.uk/?p=7337) _2026-06-05 · Nina · The Spider's House_ In Liadan Ni Chuinn s story Mary , the third part of their debut collection Every One Still Here, the narrator loses her job and enrols in a local creative writing class. In her regular bus journey to and from the class, she notices a child, always on the bus and always alone. Everyone who rides the \[ \] ## [Whisky Review #3: Kilchoman Loch Gorm 2022 Edition](https://chrisb.bearblog.dev/whisky-review-3-kilchoman-loch-gorm-2022-edition/) _2026-06-04 · chrisb · Chris Bissette_ I just got home from a busy weekend \[...\] ## [Shortlisted!](https://www.ninaallan.co.uk/?p=7328) _2026-05-28 · Nina · The Spider's House_ I am thrilled to announce that A Granite Silence has been shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Historical Dagger as part of the prestigious annual CWA Dagger Awards. As someone who has followed the Daggers for many years, it is a real honour to see A Granite Silence recognised in this way, becoming its own \[ \]