December 9 2025, 6–9.30pm
Burley Fisher, 400 Kingsland Road, London E8 4AA
Free, RSVP here.

Come and join us at Burley Fisher Books on 9th December to celebrate the launch of Yoel Noorali’s debut, The Kingdom.

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 is a former NHS administrator and writer of fiction and non-fiction living in London. His short stories have appeared in Back Patio, Dispatches, The Fence, Neutral Spaces, and Somesuch, and his essays in Esquire, The Financial Times, The Observer and The Spectator.

Kieran Morris is The Fence‘s managing editor, co-author of Core, a correspondent for Pablo Torre Finds Out (The Athletic/Meadowlark Media), and a shortlisted feature writer for the Guardian, GQ, and FT Magazine.