Everything Must Go
10 April 2025Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
A brilliantly original exploration of our obsession with the end of the world, from Mary Shelley’s The Last Man to the HBO’s The Last of Us.
'Will make you happy to be alive and reading – until the lights go out . . . Brilliant' – The Spectator
'Clever and voluminous . . . So engagingly plotted and written’ – The Guardian
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10 April 2025512 pages
9781529095951Imprint: 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, Observer
