Morrissey has achieved negative perfection

Fiction; List of the Lost; By Morrissey; Penguin Books, €11

Morrissey: the singer remains ignorant of the conventions of fictional narrativeGetty

Morrissey’s debut novel is so terrible – so galactically, monstrously awful – that it actually represents a kind of negative achievement. Where others have only tried, Morrissey has succeeded: he has written the worst novel ever published by a serious publisher.

You don’t, of course, scale these depths without at least some practice. Morrissey’s previous contribution ...