An endling is the last of its kind. A thing that seems to be both absent and present, as it fades from the world.

This book explores a range of endings and endlings of many kinds. It thinks broadly about things that have or will disappear, vanish or fade in this world, from waning glaciers to the eradication of cultural traditions, from the exhaustion of natural resources to the last star, from the end of an empire or a war to personal loss. This work centres on the meanings of endings in a time of destruction and extinction and explores our connection with the world around us through themes of loss, ending and renewal.