The End of Everything, by M. John Harrison.

The “best writer you’ve never heard of” offers in his latest novel a sci-fi vision of UK decline, in which globalization is only a memory, British relations with Europe have been “mislaid,” and humanity is beset by the “iGhetti,” a protoplasmic alien race that seems to have emerged from the world’s financial centers.

“This is a formidable book,” a Financial Times reviewer wrote: “dusky, casually horrifying, unexpectedly compassionate.” Buy The End of Everything from your local bookstore.