This week's Book of the Week is the highly anticipated and entirely wonderful new novel from David Coventry, Dance Prone, which traces the effects of personal trauma from the context of the 1980s post-punk scene through its characters' lives and relationships and into the deserts of Morocco. It is a deeply thoughtful and achingly well-written exploration of memory, wild possibility, emotional harm and frustrated idealism. 

>>Read Stella's Review. 

>>"I played in many crappy bands for an embarrassingly long time."

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>>David Coventry on the book on the radio. 

>>Read an extract. 

>>To get you in the mood: The Gordons, Scorched Earth Policy, Dead C, Hüsker Dü, Einstürzende Neubauten.

>>A partial listening (Coventry's superb Dance Prone playlist). 

>>On history, trauma, &c. 

>>Coventry's website. 

>>Read Dance Prone. 

>>Read the internationally accclaimed The Invisible Mile. 

>>Read of Coventry's unexpected connection with a customs official in Transit at Marrakech.