From Blue to Black

From Blue to Black is a debut novel by Joel Lane that follows the story of Triangle, a cult act on the post-punk scene in Birmingham in the early 1990s. The novel explores themes of passion, blood, alcohol, broken strings, and broken lives and is a piercing voyage through our musical and political past.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 31 March 2022
Publisher: Influx Press

Birmingham, early 1990s. Triangle is a cult act on the post-punk scene, led by brilliant and troubled vocalist Karl – a man haunted by past violence and present danger, torn between fame and oblivion, men and women, music and silence. Triangle's bass player, David, is struggling to make sense of Karl's reality as the band starts to make waves in the music scene and Karl starts to come apart in a blur of sex and drinking. First published in 2000, Joel Lane's debut novel From Blue to Black is a story of passion, blood, and alcohol, broken strings, and broken lives – a piercing voyage through our musical and political past that cuts to the bone.

Birmingham, early 1990s.

Triangle is a cult act on the post-punk scene, led by brilliant and troubled vocalist Karl – a man haunted by past violence and present danger, torn between fame and oblivion, men and women, music and silence.

Triangle's bass player, David, is struggling to make sense of Karl's reality as the band starts to make waves in the music scene and Karl starts to come apart in a blur of sex and drinking.

First published in 2000, Joel Lane's debut novel From Blue to Black is a story of passion, blood, and alcohol, broken strings, and broken lives – a piercing voyage through our musical and political past that cuts to the bone.

Dimension: 198 x 129 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781914391033