Black Country
Joel Lane
Author bio
Cover illustration by Trav28 
ISBN: 978-1-907341-02-1 
Publication date: March 2010

‘“Black Country” is a story built on shifting sands, as the actual investigation recedes into the background somewhat… and the focus is more on the narrator’s emotional state… It’s a very good story and portrait’ David Hebblethwaite, Follow the Thread

‘Lane’s slightly elliptical style induces anxiety, and his description of the rotting suburb (“Cats or seagulls were crying somewhere in the night”) is always evocative’ Lisa Morton, Black Glove

‘A brilliant social meditation on how we lose and find ourselves in our remembrances of things past’ Michael Kelly