Alan Moore novel re-released!

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Arguably the finest comic-book writer ever, Alan Moore also wrote a 'proper novel' back in 1996, called Voice of The Fire. It has just been re-released in what looks to be a lavish new edition.

Forsaking a continual narrative and spanning some 6000 years, the novel consists of twelve chapters, all of which are set in or around the English city of Northampton during the month of November. As Northampton has been Moore’s hometown for the duration of his life, and November the month of his birth, Voice of the Fire can be taken as a piece of “site-specific” writing in which Moore seeks to get a firmer grasp on the history of the city and his own life. He goes about this psychogeographical experiment by delving into the strata of local legend and history from 4000 BCE to 1995, picking up uncanny details and strange connections along the way.

If that interests you, there is a good review at The Modern Word: http://www.themodernword.com/reviews/moore_fire.html