Fans of Kliewer's We Used to Live Here and Steadman’s Something in the Water will lose their minds over John Harrison’s latest psychological thriller!Mira and Kieran Carpenter are moving into their first home together, a run-down fixer-upper in a historic Pittsburgh neighborhood. To parents and friends, the building is a horror. To Mira, an architect, and Kieran, an accomplished musician, it represents the opportunity to forget the betray...

Mira and Kieran Carpenter are moving into their first home together, a fixer-upper in a historic Pittsburgh neighborhood. To parents and friends, the building is a horror. To Mira, an architect, and Kieran, an accomplished musician, it represents the opportunity to forget the betrayals of the past and restore their marriage along with this new home. Until . . .A strange delivery is left by the front door. Neither Mira nor Kieran remember ordering it. There is no card. No sender. No...

* LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026 * A TIMES BESTSELLER *'A visionary and brilliant investigation of anxious times' CHINA MIÉVILLE'Elucidates humanity's disintegrating existence with strange clarity' GUARDIAN'Speaks with uncanny indirectness to our deepest fears about collective memory and big tech' TELEGRAPH'Memorable, haunting ... a world that's...

Learn to draw confidently and creatively with pen PEN DRAWING is an essential guide to mastering pen to create original and expressive artwork. Acclaimed artist and tutor John Harrison shows you how to turn simple lines into striking illustrations that capture form, texture and atmosphere. Packed with inspiration, expert advice and step-by-step demonstrations, this book will help you build your skills, develop your own style and push the boundaries of traditional pen illustration.

On the barren surface of an asteroid, located deep in the galaxy beneath the unbearable light of the Kefahuchi Tract, lie three objects: an abandoned spacecraft, a pair of bone dice covered with strange symbols, and a human skeleton.What they are and what they mean are the mysteries explored and unwrapped in LIGHT, M. John Harrison's triumphant novel.

From the winner of the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize...Throughout his career, M. John Harrison’s writing has defied categorisation, building worlds both unreal and all-too real, overlapping and interlocking with each other. His stories are replete with fissures and portals into parallel dimensions, unidentified countries and lost lands. But more important than the places they point to are the obsessions that drive the people who so believe in them, characters who spend their lives...

'Harrison is without peer as a chronicler of the fraught, unsteady state we're in' Olivia LaingPhillip 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 obscure. 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 ke...

"An awesomely fluent and versatile prose stylist" - INDEPENDENT**"**Amazing achievement ... Harrison pulls off the almost impossible feat of seamlessly blending hard sci-fi, cyberpunk, noir crime ... while doing what all the best literature does" - Goodreads ReviewerSet in the unique world, first featured in the award-winning Light**,** here is a story of love, murder, and intergalactic noir on the razors edge of the imagination, a...

*WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2020* *A New Statesman Book of the Year* 'A mesmerising, mysterious book . . . Haunting. Worrying. Beautiful' Russell T. Davis 'Brilliantly unsettling' Olivia Laing 'A magificent book' Neil Gaiman 'An extraordinary experience' William GibsonWinner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2020, this is fiction that pushes the boundaries of the...

One of M. John Harrison's most acclaimed novels in a career of near universal acclaim, CLIMBERS is, perhaps, the least fantastical of his novels. Yet it carries life-changing moments, descriptions of landscape bordering on the hallucinogenic and flights of pure fictive power that leave any notion of the divide between realistic and unrealistic fiction far behind. First published in 1989, CLIMBERS has remained a strong favourite with fans and reviewers alike.A young man seeks to get...

EMPTY SPACE is a space adventure. We begin with the following dream:An alien research tool the size of a brown dwarf star hangs in the middle of nowhere, as a result of an attempt to place it equidistant from everything else in every possible universe. Somewhere in the fractal labyrinth beneath its surface, a woman lies on an allotropic carbon deck, a white paste of nanomachines oozing from the corner of her mouth. She is neither conscious nor unconscious, dead nor alive. There is ...

** LONGLISTED for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2018 **M. John Harrison is a cartographer of the liminal. His work sits at the boundaries between genres – horror and science fiction, fantasy and travel writing – just as his characters occupy the no man’s land between the spatial and the spiritual. Here, in his first collection of short fiction for over 15 years, we see the master of the New Wave present unsettling visions of contemporary urban Britain, as well as supernatural par...