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Your boy is profiled in The Observer today. Print edition on Sunday. And yes, I write about sex. What a headline.
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spring reading recommendations - featuring an absolute tour de force from
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10 must-read fiction books to sort your Spring reading
Twisty crowd-pleaser: Check. Elegant meditation on tech: Check. Fresh, original debuts: Check check.
https://www.shortlist.com/books/new-fiction-books-spring-2026
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Liner Notes 142 lands in your inboxes around 7pm tonight, our latest Limited Edition, a new collaboration with David Keenan. Every order ships in an exclusive tote bag. No general release.
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4 days ago
Stand by! 🎯
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Jeff Young
6 days ago
For my 23rd Magnetic North missive in the 23rd edition of Science & Magic I wrote about this Princes Park Fritillary and the importance of being available for astonishment. This one’s for David Keenan
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and you can read it here:
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Wayne Connolly
6 days ago
It made me smile to read this from TS Eliot's introduction to Anabasis by St John Perse. It's the perfect way in to Boyhood
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Tomorrow night! The Boyhood tour returns to Glasgow with DJ sets from Tia Cousins and Manifesto of Bliss plus live jams from me and Dölphin. At our spiritual home McChuills. Can’t wait to see everyone!
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6 days ago
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9 days ago
Just finished the new David Keenan
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. As expected it’s a great book with multiple layers, timelines and depths to it. What I didn’t expect was that it’s impossible to put down as there’s always more to be revealed. With 246 short chapters, it’s always, “OK, just one more”.
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Colin Macqueen
11 days ago
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pulling a Hitchcock on us now. Playing the long game.
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“Like taking William Blake on a bender.” Incredible review of Boyhood in
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today! “One of those special books that enter the world still unfolding.”
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www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
11 days ago
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Colin Macqueen
12 days ago
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Nicely played, sir.
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“Keenan unfurls a psychedelic post-punk fantasy dense with literary allusions and esoteric lore - not to mention a fierce love for Glasgow.” Another dream review of Boyhood, this time in The Herald 🙏
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www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2...
13 days ago
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“Keenan’s latest novel confirms his place as one of Scottish literature’s most unfettered imaginations.” Dream review of Boyhood in The Scotsman. @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social “This swaggeringly imaginative, polyphonic novel…”
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The Boyhood tour continues tonight in Margate where I’ll be in conversation with Ryan J.Smith at the Fort Road Bar 7-9pm. Tickets are free and available via Eventbrite. Can’t wait to see everyone!
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14 days ago
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14 days ago
Looking forward to this immensely
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Thanks to Scotland on Sunday for running this extract from Boyhood!
15 days ago
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Listen back: I’m on the Arts Mix with Len Pennie talking Boyhood and reading from the book:
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15 days ago
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16 days ago
Jumping to the top of the reading pile…🙌
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I wrote a very personal piece about Boyhood, angels and astonishment and how writers must learn to fly backwards for
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unherd.com/2026/04/on-a...
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16 days ago
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The Boyhood tour continues tonight in Liverpool where I’ll be in conversation with Jeff Young. Looking forward to seeing everyone!
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17 days ago
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Amazing review of Boyhood in the Sunday Times today: “An exuberant novel bursting with punk rock, outré sex and grisly murder.” What more could you ask?!
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17 days ago
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Tom Noble
18 days ago
Friday night was one for the history books. The kind of event you only get with someone like
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Jeff Young
18 days ago
Tomorrow. David Keenan. Boyhood. This book is astonishing. Come and be astonished too.
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Details:
www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...
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Niall MacKenzie
18 days ago
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The joy of the postie delivering something I completely forgot I ordered months ago haha! 😀🥰
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White Rabbit Books
18 days ago
That was not a book launch. That was an incredible night. Thank you all who came down to experience so much amazing music to celebrate
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and BOYHOOD
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19 days ago
Soho all day today. You don’t need anything else. Blue Posts and Maigret for breakfast. Going to
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NOT A BOOK LAUNCH party later. Literal perfection.
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Tonight!
19 days ago
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“Exhilarating and ambitious, fizzing with the possibilities of fiction, dense with allusion and drunk on a strange dreamlike magic, Boyhood could be hailed as extraordinary if extraordinary wasn’t by now par for the course for Keenan.” Amazing review of Boyhood:
www.buzzmag.co.uk/boyhood-davi...
20 days ago
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Norman Records
20 days ago
RELEASED TODAY: 'Boyhood' by David Keenan Acclaimed writer David Keenan takes us back to late 1970s Glasgow and beyond on his latest novel. Check the limited, signed, record shops-only edition.
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www.normanrecords.com/records/2125...
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Lost Glasgow
20 days ago
Looking forward to getting my mitts on the new David Keenan
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novel, 'Boyhood'. The brilliant cover pic is by LG friend Douglas Corrance, and was taken in Maryhill in 1979.
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White Rabbit Books
20 days ago
BOYHOOD is here. The new masterpiece from David Keenan, that is unlike anything else you’ll read this lifetime, OUT TODAY.
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Amazing review of Boyhood in The Times. “Keenan evokes the fleetingness of youth with a tender yet feverish intensity.” Glasgow grime, ‘Mr Lethal’ and TS Eliot — a punk-rock novel
www.thetimes.com/article/d545...
20 days ago
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White Rabbit Books
22 days ago
FINAL 20 TICKETS JUST RELEASED 🎟️ Join us on Friday
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for what is most definitely NOT a book launch for
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and BOYHOOD Incredible music all night…
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Your boy is profiled in the Irish Times today:
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
22 days ago
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An amazing 24 hours of Boyhood in Edinburgh. Thanks to everyone who came out. Next stop Glasgow tonight, Waterstones, Sauchiehall Street, 7pm. Looking forward to seeing everyone x
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22 days ago
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22 days ago
Now then…as yer man would say, psyched to receive this today. Thank you
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,
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and the Cleeve Bookshop.
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Dan Jenks
22 days ago
The postman always rings twice - when he forgets he’s got a second parcel for me - this just in from
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eagerly awaited indeed.
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23 days ago
New
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Tonight in Edinburgh! I’m in conversation with the wonderful Kirstin Innes at Topping about my new novel Boyhood. Psyched to see everyone x
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23 days ago
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24 days ago
Mad not to.
#boyhoodisglasgow
add a skeleton here at some point
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Brian David Stevens
23 days ago
Gods & Monsters with the author David Keenan
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on BassMidsTops
bassmidstopsandtherest.substack.com/p/no-44b-dav...
David’s new book Boyhood is published this week by White Rabbit
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David Photographed in London Nov 2025
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ⓘ Invalid Handle
23 days ago
SOOOORRRY it's been delayed, but worth the wait and then some - gods, monsters, Dick, Crowley, free jazz, refuting taste, the over-artist, Morrissey's relish and so much more.
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No. 44b: David Keenan
Hey everybody, we are back, back, back! Apologies once again for delays, it really has been a lot of fairly heavyweight life and work stuff, and getting these together is very, very time intensive.
https://open.substack.com/pub/bassmidstopsandtherest/p/no-44b-david-keenan?r=12ybk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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The Boyhood tour starts tomorrow in Edinburgh then on to Glasgow, Linlithgow, London, Liverpool, Margate and the LRB Bookshop, where I’ll be in discussion with Andy O’Hagan. Can’t wait to see everyone! Boyhood is published on Thursday!
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24 days ago
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24 days ago
David Keenan’s ‘Boyhood’ is an astonishing trip. I’ll be in conversation with him about it at Liverpool Waterstones next Monday and I’m VERY excited! Liverpool, join us!
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An Evening With David Keenan | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An Evening With David Keenan today.
https://www.waterstones.com/events/an-evening-with-david-keenan/liverpool
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25 days ago
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Weathering Storm Dave by getting lost in 'Boyhood'. A beaut of a book. Soundtracked with the sound of people's bins knocking about outside. Should put The Alarm on.
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25 days ago
Coming soon to BassMidsTops David Keenan
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Cyndi Handson Family, ShyOne and Pye Corner Audio
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“Boyhood… should see Keenan recognised as among the most gifted authors working today.” Amazing review of Boyhood in the new issue of the Literary Review 🙏
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literaryreview.co.uk/precious-gifts
26 days ago
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27 days ago
Easter bookmail - a duet of punk bildungsroman from
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White Rabbit Books
27 days ago
BOYHOOD: The Soundtrack, the official playlist for the latest novel from David Keenan (
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), featuring every track mentioned in the book. 60 songs, over four and a half hours. Dive in...
open.spotify.com/playlist/4k8...
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Psyched to be back on one of my favourite literary podcasts, Beyond The Zero, to talk about my new novel Boyhood
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and so much more. Check out the latest episode with me on here or wherever you jam your pods:
open.spotify.com/episode/6Vk6...
28 days ago
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