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Alan Moore, Book Reviewer For The Guardian?

Alan Moore has a novel out soon. Jerusalem, a 600,000 word long take on the streets around his own home in Northampton stretching back over the millennia.

So, ahead of its publication, he appears to be looking around at other novels on the market and extolling their virtues for The Guardian newspaper. Hence his article today, praising the rerelease of Chris Petit's novel The Psalm Killer.

With his second foray into darkness, The Psalm Killer in 1997, he presents noir of a different colour, having new agendas and extended reach; exchanging the steep, reeling gradients south of Oxford Street for the tight-knotted intestinal maze of Belfast, and trading a toxic hallucinogenic rush for the unwanted clarity of hangover, withdrawal, comedown.

Even for commenters who expressed disdain for the book, they can't deny the words.

This is an absolutely beautifully written piece of advocacy on behalf of an almost ideally undeserving object.

Could we see more before the release of Jerusalem? Further examination leads one to believe that this is the actual introduction to the book by Moore, rather than a separate review, though.

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