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Yoel Noorali
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The Kingdom

Yoel Noorali (2025)

£12.00 (Reduced from £15.00)

“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

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.

But before I heeded the call of accountancy, I needed to completely rule out the possibility I might be Philip Roth. My wife and I had agreed I’d admit defeat after four more years of clicking. Then, adequately crushed, my real life could commence. Until then, I’d open my novel in a tiny window in the bottom right-hand corner of my computer screen, the rest occupied by images from a stranger’s MRI, and write.

Yoel Noorali is a former NHS administrator and writer of fiction and non-fiction living in London. His short stories have appeared in Back PatioDispatchesThe FenceNeutral Spaces, and Somesuch, and his essays in EsquireThe Financial TimesThe Observer and The Spectator

The Kingdom is the first title in the New Writing Series from Book Works – publishing outside the mainstream.

Scheduled for publication November 2025. Now available to pre-order at the reduced price of £12.00

The Kingdom | Noorali, Yoel; | Commission: New Writing Series | Editor: Regel, Hannah; | ISBN: 978 1 912570 34 8 | Price: £12.00 (Reduced from £15.00) | Format: Book; | Edition: 1000 copies | Publisher: Book Works | Designer: Sara De Bondt;

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