Everything Must Go - Dorian Lynskey

'Everything Must Go' by Dorian Lynskey (Picador, Trade Paperback 500 pages)

Religious prophecies and secular speculations on how our civilisation, species and/or planet will end are explored in an insightful and entertaining way by Lynskey. He analyses the stories we tell of our demise through literature and film, providing a cultural history of our preoccupation with the end.