About the book and performer

The End of Everything:

Phillip Tennent makes his living at the tideline, collecting artefacts that wash up from the Channel. It’s been years since the crisis changed everything, but its exact nature remains obscured. Government barely functions, the seas are full of new creatures, Europe has been mislaid. It feels like the end.

Now Phillip has fished out of the water an object he can’t keep. A creature that keeps changing. An artefact he must take inland, before it destroys everything he thinks he knows.

A slyly satirical and unsettling post-apocalyptic adventure into the limits of human understanding from the acknowledged master of science fiction.

Kathryn Hunter:

Kathryn Hunter is an Olivier Award-winning actor and director working across film, television, and theatre. 

She received the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth. Her recent film work includes Ladies First, Poor Things, Megalopolis, The Front Room &amp and Vicious, alongside acclaimed performances in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Orlando, and All or Nothing.  

On television, her credits include the BBC’s Ann Droid, Netflix’s Black Doves, Andor and Grotesquerie, both on Disney+, and HBO’s Landscapers.  

Hunter’s distinguished stage career spans major international venues. Notable productions include The Benghal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The Valley of Astonishment and Kafka’s Monkey (all Young Vic), King Lear (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Chairs (Almeida Theatre) and The Visit (Théâtre de Complicité), for which she won the Olivier Award for Best Actress.