The crimewriting legend that brought us Inspector Rebus and ardent music lover Ian Rankin joins Jude to discuss another incredible book about music and the people who make it.

Ian has picked a book about his beloved Joy Division. Touching from a Distance is written by Joy Division singer Ian Curtis's wife Deborah and was published fifteen years after he died in 1980.

In this episode they chat early music experiences, toxic masculinity and the existential thriller Ian plotted out but never quite wrote based on Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures. There's still time Ian, there's still time!

You can pre-order Ian Rankin's new book here https://geni.us/AHeartFullOfHeadstones

Other books mentioned in the podcast:

England’s Dreaming by Jon Savage https://uk.bookshop.org/books/england-s-dreaming/9780571368549

Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom by Nik Cohn https://uk.bookshop.org/books/awopbopaloobop-alopbamboom-pop-from-the-beginning/9781784870485

Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division by Peter Hook https://uk.bookshop.org/books/unknown-pleasures-inside-joy-division/9781471148330

Substance: Inside New Order by Peter Hook https://uk.bookshop.org/books/substance-inside-new-order/9781471132421

Chapter and Verse - New Order, Joy Division and Me by Bernard Sumner https://uk.bookshop.org/books/chapter-and-verse-new-order-joy-division-and-me/9780552170499

Record Play Pause: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: the Joy Division Years: Volume I by Stephen Morris https://bit.ly/3JHMhtg

Fast Forward: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: Volume II by Stephen Morris https://bit.ly/3QDEvTv

Joy Division: Juvenes by Kevin Cummins https://uk.bookshop.org/books/joy-division-juvenes/9781788402712

Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer https://uk.bookshop.org/books/charlotte-sometimes/9780141379210

You can buy Jude's book The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives here: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-sound-of-being-human-how-music-shapes-our-lives/9781474622929

Finally White Rabbit's Spotify Playlist of 'booksongs' - songs inspired by books loved by our guests - is here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7chuHOeTs9jpyKpmgXV6uo

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