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David Keenan


Scotland (b.1971)

David Keenan is the author of England's Hidden Reverse: A Secret History of the Esoteric Underworld and a senior critic on The Wire.


Genres: Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
April 2026

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Boyhood
 
Novels
   For The Good Times (2019)
   Xstabeth (2020)
   Monument Maker (2021)
   Boyhood (2026)
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Non fiction show
 
Award nominations
2020 Encore Award (nominee) : For The Good Times


David Keenan recommends
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The Benefactors (2025)
Wendy Erskine
"The Benefactors is a novel of trauma that speaks from all of its perspectives simultaneously. In its lack of judgement, and in the redemptive joy and sadness of its telling, it is a profound work of art."
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Poguemahone (2022)
Patrick McCabe
"Pitched - deliriously - between high modernism and folk magic, between gorgeous free-verse and hilarious Irish vernacular, Poguemahone is a stunning achievement - profoundly affecting."
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Muscle (2019)
Alan Trotter
"A breathless, breakneck debut; a dizzying amalgam of exploded hard-boiled-isms, modernist acrobatics and hallucinatory sci-fi, propelled by relentlessly inventive prose."

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