Impiety Hour welcomes visionary novelist David Keenan for a live discussion of new book Boyhood

On Thu 28 May, Manchester bookshop and literary outpost Impiety Hour – formerly P3 Annihilation Eve and O! Peste Destroyed – welcomes singular Scottish author and master of spiritual turbulence David Keenan for an evening celebrating the release of his latest novel, Boyhood.

Luminous, visionary and steeped in Keenan’s unmistakably hallucinatory prose style, Boyhood excavates the strange psychic weather of adolescence with a bruised lyricism that drifts between the sacred and the surreal. Set against the decaying emotional architecture of the 1980s, the novel traces those volatile formative years where identity is still brutally malleable, and every humiliation or revelation feels seismic in personal meaning.

Leading the evening’s conversation, filmmaker and author Austin Collings joins Keenan for a live Q&A exploring memory, youth and the uneasy afterlife of the past. The event marks Keenan’s latest appearance in Manchester following previous collaborations with the venue under its former incarnation, reinforcing a longstanding affinity between the author and the city’s subterranean literary fringe.

Entry is free, while guests can also pre-purchase a copy of Boyhood alongside a seat reservation and complimentary drink HERE.