Clever and voluminous . . . So engagingly plotted and written that its 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 journalists 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 A fascinating guide . . . full of lesser-known cultural gems. * New Scientist * Terrifically entertaining * The New York Times * Clever and insightful * The Washington Post * Doom without the gloom . . . the book's own stock of revelations never runs short * The New Yorker * We keep having conversations these days about how it feels like the End Times . . . turns out, we've ALWAYS felt it's the End Times. I cannot recommend Dorian Lynskeys book enough. For a book about Armageddon, it's very uplifting. -- Caitlin Moran, author of How to Be a Woman A rich and remarkable book -- Matthew D'Ancona, The New European I was blown away by this book. The staggering range of references, the razor-sharp analysis, the wisdom, left me gasping out loud at times. Lynskey also somehow manages to make a book about the end of the world feel . . . hopeful. One of the best non-fiction writers around. -- Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland So enjoyable, that I didn't want it to end the world, or the book. -- Adam Rutherford, author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived A major piece of work, [ a] heavyweight yet fleet-of-foot look at humankinds fixation on the end of days, told through the prism of history, religion, literature, popular art, science and more, as compelling as it is authoritative. -- Ian Winwood * The Telegraph * Impossibly epic, brain-expanding, life-affirming and profound. Youll never see humanity the same way again. -- Ian Dunt, author of How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't For a book drenched in destruction, Everything Must Go is not depressing, and often wryly funny. It is incredibly deeply researched, fluently written, moving deftly between close-up detail and broad-brush analysis. * The Arts Desk *
