Synopsis
A brilliantly original exploration of our obsession with the end of the world, from Mary Shelley’s The Last Man to the Manic Street Preachers’ Everything Must Go.
'Brilliant, scholarly, sharp and witty’ – Adam Rutherford, author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
'Will make you happy to be alive and reading – until the lights go out . ....
Details
11 April 2024512 pages
9781529095944Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Clever and voluminous . . . So engagingly plotted and written that it’s a pleasure to bask in its constant stream of remarkable titbits and illuminating insights.The Guardian
'Everything Must Go will make you happy to be alive and reading – until the lights go out . . . Brilliant.' The Spectator
Lynskey has a journalist’s eye for a great story and a killer quotation . . . He is ridiculously well informed.Literary Review
Lynskey's encyclopedic knowledge . . . and his glee at the sheer inventiveness of the doomsayers' creations, make this an unlikely page-turner . . . a curiously entertaining read.Mat Osman, The Observer
