“Yoel Noorali – along with all the ghost-Yoels who float through these pages – has turned the despair and alienation of modern work into a source of pure pleasure. This is the funniest, knottiest, most exhilaratingly jaded debut of the year.” – Joe Dunthorne, author of Submarine and Children of Radium

We’re excited to be publishing the first title in our New Writing Series this Autumn, The Kingdom by Yoel Noorali.

In a surreal and hilarious mix of fiction and autobiography, The Kingdom follows a host of misfits and losers struggling to devote themselves to the religion of the 21st century: work. Set predominantly within the admin office of an NHS liver wing, the collection chronicles the strange behaviours of men cornered by a bureaucracy that lets indignity run rampant.

Yoel Noorali’s writing has appeared in Esquire, The Fence, The Financial Times, Neutral Spaces, and The Observer. He is currently at work on his debut novel.