This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper,” T S Eliot wrote in ‘The Hollow Men’ in 1925. A century later, another British writer, M John Harrison, would locate the end of the world in the apocalypse becoming a condition of living. The result is The End of Everything, winner of this year’s Booker Prize, lauded by the jury as “shimmering and oblique”.

At 81, Harrison is the oldest winner in the........

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