New: A darkly funny London fantasy novel for the lost and the lonely.

SORY

Some things are better left in the oven.

Every week, five fading demons take a sauna in a Hackney pizza oven

Uncle Wang feeds them heat and cheap Beijing liquor. He makes terrible pizza. And on the back burner, a black elixir has been simmering for eleven months. Every Lunar New Year, he throws it away.

Niamh delivers three pizzas a day on a bike with a dying battery. She is fifteen days off her medication, and she is starting to see things.

Then Silver arrives from Hong Kong with a Rimowa suitcase, a laser measure and a sealed envelope from her father. Her feng shui is impeccable. Her timing is not.

The city is going cold. The demons are fading. And the elixir is missing one ingredient.

A comic, tender, slightly unhinged London novel about a city going cold, and the people (and demons) who refuse to.

SORY isn’t a typo. It’s a demon’s apology.


SORY paperback by Christine Li: orange cover with white smoke rising from a small bottle

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Chaos is Reason

SORY novel ebook displayed in a gritty pizzeria with Chinese liquor bottles, hot peppers and blazing oven

Ever wondered why the old gods never come back to save us?


Maybe they can’t. Maybe they’re worse off than we are.

Squabbling.
Falling in love.
Burned out in a city going cold.

Thank heavens for sauna night in Uncle Wang’s pizza oven.