Ever since reading, From Hell, I’ve been very impressed with everything that Alan Moore has written. His writing in the past has been (as far as I know) exclusively in the comics field, but he has written a novel, which has just come out, called Voice of Fire. It sounds very cool:
Alan Moore Interview
An excerpt (to whet your appetite, perhaps):
Most people in Britain know Northampton as a vague blur on the M-1 Motorway between London and Birmingham and yet, when I started to think about writing a book about the town, I began to research its history and found enough evidence, to at least convince me, that Northampton is, actually, the center of the entire cosmos.