Jerusalem (Second Edition)

"Jerusalem slips in and out of time, embracing Charlemagne, Einstein and Thomas Becket. You'll emerge dazed and dazzled by its brilliance." The Spectator

In decaying Northampton, eternity loiters between housing projects. Among saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts, a timeline unravels: second-century fiends wait in urine-scented stairwells, delinquent spectres undermine a century with tunnels, and in upstairs parlours, labourers with golden blood reduce fate to a snooker tournament. Through the labyrinthine streets and pages of Jerusalem tread ghosts singing hymns of wealth and poverty. They celebrate the English language, challenge mortality post-Einstein, and insist upon their slum as Blake's eternal holy city. Fierce in its imagining and stupefying in its breadth, Jerusalem is the tale of everything, told from a vanished gutter.

"Brilliantmonumentally ambitiousMoore keeps lobbing treats to urge his readers onward: luscious turns of phrase, unexpected callbacks and internal links, philosophical digressions, Dad jokes, fantastical inventionsBehind all the formalism and eccentric virtuosity, there's personal history from a writer who has rarely put himself into his own fiction before." New York Times Book Review

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