2-J writes:

The Guide is the weekly listings magazine that comes with the national newspaper The Guardian here in the UK. This week there is a round-up of the best music books of the year, by Ian Gittins. 'Saint Morrissey' is one of the five chosen, along with John Harris's 'The Last Party', Frank Owen's 'Clubland Confidential' Mark Pytlik's 'Bjork:Wow And Flutter' and Sting - Broken Music.

The review in full:

MARK SIMPSON Saint Morrissey (SAF, £16.99)
Freely admitting to an adolescence both elevated and ruined by the bequiffed one, the erudite Simpson gives a compelling account of his youthful - and adult - fascination with the bard of Whalley Range/Beverly Hills: "The first Smiths album, filled me with a lust to go out shoplifting expensive perfume with which to spray bus shelters". His conclusion? "Morrissey is a Northern Woman, and a queer fish". A nimble essay which gives fandom a good name.
Ian Gittins.