Clever and voluminous . . . So engagingly plotted and written that it’s a pleasure to bask in its constant stream of remarkable titbits and illuminating insights.

Everything Must Go will make you happy to be alive and reading – until the lights go out . . . Brilliant.

Lynskey has a journalist’s eye for a great story and a killer quotation . . . He is ridiculously well informed.

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.

A fascinating guide . . . full of lesser-known cultural gems.

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 Lynskey’s book enough. For a book about Armageddon, it’s very uplifting.

A rich and remarkable book

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.

So enjoyable, that I didn’t want it to end – the world, or the book.

A major piece of work, [a] heavyweight yet fleet-of-foot look at humankind’s 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.

Impossibly epic, brain-expanding, life-affirming and profound. You’ll never see humanity the same way again.

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.