Morrissey may well be hanging up his microphone - at least that's what he says for now - but his career as a novelist is just beginning.

The music icon's debut novel 'List of the Lost' is published tomorrow, and publishers Penguin UK have shared a short extract from it via Twitter.

There is no other information about the plot, although Amazon list it as a 'gothic romance' and it's 128 pages long.

Morrissey has described it as 'An American tale'; "Beware the novelist . . . intimate and indiscreet . . . pompous, prophetic airs . . . here is the fact of fiction . . . an American tale where, naturally, evil conquers good, and none live happily ever after, for the complicated pangs of the empty experiences of flesh-and-blood human figures are the reason why nothing can ever be enough. To read a book is to let a root sink down. List of the lost is the reality of what is true battling against what is permitted to be true.'

Read the brief extract below: