This is Memorial Device

Written by David Keenan

Narrated by David Keenan

David Keenan's cult classic novel, available in audiobook for the first time - read by the author.


A Telegraph and Rough Trade Book of the Year, and shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Orion
• Release date: Aug 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9781399610322

David Keenan

David Keenan is the author of six critically-acclaimed novels; the cult classic This is Memorial Device, which won the London Magazine Prize; For the Good Times, which won the Gordon Burn Prize and was shortlisted for the Encore Award; The Towers The Fields The Transmitters, Xstabeth, which was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, Monument Maker, which was a Rough Trade Book of the Year and Industry of Magic & Light. He is also the author of England's Hidden Reverse, a history of the UK's post-punk and Industrial music scenes. He has been writing about music since he was seventeen years old, most consistently for The Wire, and between the years 2004-2014 he co-ran the cult Glasgow record shop Volcanic Tongue. His selected music writing was published in 2025 as the collection Volcanic Tongue.