It's Not a Cult: a darkly comic horror debut for fans of Riley Sager

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Callum, Melusine and Al play in a band with no name, baffling audiences in terrible pubs across the north-east of England with their sound. Their songs tell the stories of the Solkats: fictional northern gods of small things, of mishap and mayhem. Absolutely no one knows what theyre on about. But they believe in their music, and in each other. And theyre happy.

That is, until an act of violence at a pub gig goes viral, they catch the eye of a disillusioned influencer and suddenly go from having a cult following to having a cult, following.

All the Solkats want, Callum insists, is to have effect on the world. But as fans from LA to Australia flock to Northumberland, and each gig becomes larger and more lawless than the last, this effect starts to feel scarily real. Which poses the question: if the Solkats really do exist, which is it more dangerous to anger: a wayward group of elder gods, or your biggest fans

Because gods and cults both demand sacrifices. And one way or another theyre going to get one

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Joey Batey grapples with the complexities of social media, ego and fandom in an inclusive debut * The Bookseller *

Author Bio

Joey Batey was raised in the North East of England and read Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge. He has worked as an actor and musician and is best known for his role in flagship Netflix show The Witcher. Joey produces music with his alt-folk group The Amazing Devil. Its Not A Cult is his first novel.