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For a very limited time, we are accepting orders for the signed limited edition hardcover edition of John Connolly's short story, THE REFLECTING EYE. You can find more information about the book, including its introduction here. The book will cost £21 plus postage (to be determined). If you would like your name added to the list, send an email to David with the title of the book in the subject line and information will be provided as we get it. Please note that this is a very limited edition, so copies will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. A limit of TWO copies per customer will also be imposed.
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No Alibis Bookstore are pleased to invite you to celebrate the launch of Peter Hollywood's latest collection, HAWKS & OTHER SHORT STORIES, on Saturday 22nd June at 4:00PM. Music will be provided by Noel Burke.
Peter Hollywood was born in Newry, Co. Down, in 1959. He has worked at a variety of jobs including bookselling and teaching. He has previously published two collections, Jane Alley (Pretani Press, 1987) and, Lead City & Other Stories (Lagan Press, 2002) and a novel, Luggage (Lagan, 2008). He lives in Belfast with his wife and three children.
With Hawks, Peter Hollywood has crafted a gripping collection of stories which reflects the changing face of Northern Ireland.
While Northern Ireland is in the process of a gradual transformation into another place, despite the glitz on the surface, it is yet to arrive. Haunted by the collective memory of moments shared, it could embrace a bright future, or retain the darker colours of its past.
In clear, elegant and sombre prose, though never beyond humour, emotion and feeling, Hollywood charts the movements towards this new world with gusto.
Book your spot now by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore are very pleased to invite you to celebrate the launch of Jeffrey Deaver's latest novel, THE KILL ROOM, on Wednesday 26th June at 7:00PM in the Ulster Museum. Jeffrey will be discussing his career in crime fiction with John Connolly. Tickets, priced £5 each, are available now.
A former journalist, folksinger and attorney, Jeffery Deaver is an international number-one bestselling author. His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including the New York Times, the Times of London, Italy’s Corriere della Sera, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Los Angeles Times. His books are sold in 150 countries and have been translated into over twenty-five languages.
The author of thirty novels, two collections of short stories and a nonfiction law book, he’s received or been shortlisted for a number of awards around the world. His The Bodies Left Behind was named Novel of the Year by the International Thriller Writers Association, and his Lincoln Rhyme thriller The Broken Window and a stand-alone, Edge, were also nominated for that prize. He has been awarded the Steel Dagger and the Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers’ Association and the Nero Wolfe Award, and he is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Readers Award for Best Short Story of the Year and a winner of the British Thumping Good Read Award. The Cold Moon was named the Book of the Year by the Mystery Writers Association of Japan, as well as by Kono Mystery Wa Sugoi magazine. In addition, the Japanese Adventure Fiction Association awarded the The Cold Moon and Carte Blanche their annual Grand Prix award.
His most recent novels are XO, a Kathryn Dance thriller, for which he wrote an album of country-western songs, available on iTunes and as a CD. And before that, Carte Blanche, the latest James Bond continuation novel, a number-one international bestseller.
Deaver has been nominated for seven Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, an Anthony Award and a Gumshoe Award. He was recently shortlisted for the ITV3 Crime Thriller Award for Best International Author.
Robert Moreno, an American citizen living in South America, is shot in the Bahamas by a sniper. The killing was commissioned by the U.S. government, who received a tip-off that Moreno was planning a terrorist attack on a U.S. oil company headquarters. But this intelligence was fatally incorrect: anti-American Moreno ordered a protest at the oil company, not an attack.
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are drafted in to investigate. While Sachs traces Moreno’s steps in New York, Rhyme travels to the scene of the crime in Nassau, where he finds himself on a dangerous path trailed by the sniper himself. As details of the case start to emerge, the pair discover that not all is what it seemed. Can they achieve justice and escape with their lives intact?
John Connolly was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1968 and has, at various points in his life, worked as a journalist, a barman, a local government official, a waiter and a dogsbody at Harrods department store in London. He studied English in Trinity College, Dublin and journalism at Dublin City University, subsequently spending five years working as a freelance journalist for The Irish Times newspaper, to which he continues to contribute.
His first novel, Every Dead Thing, was published in 1999, and introduced the character of Charlie Parker, a former policeman hunting the killer of his wife and daughter.
John Connolly is based in Dublin but divides his time between his native city and the United States, where each of his novels has been set.
Book your tickets now by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore are very pleased to invite you to celebrate the publication of POLICE, the latest Harry Hole thriller from Jo Nesbø, on Sunday 15th September at 6:00PM. Venue and ticket details will be available shortly. In the meantime, do please register your interest (see below).
Jo Nesbo was born in 1960 in Oslo, Norway. After graduating from the Norwegian School of Economics, he worked as a freelance journalist and as a stockbroker. His first crime novel featuring Harry Hole was published in Norway in 1997 and was an instant hit, winning the Glass Key Award for best Nordic crime novel (an accolade shared with Peter Høeg, Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson). After the success of his first novel, Nesbo devoted his time to writing and to his other passion: music. He also is the lead singer and songwriter for the popular Norwegian rock band 'di Derre'.
The Harry Hole novels have been a huge success, hitting bestseller lists across Europe and selling over 9 million copies worldwide. In 2010 The Snowman took the UK by storm and spent more than three months on the Sunday Times bestseller list. The Leopard was an instant hit, going straight to no. 1 in the Sunday Times hardback fiction charts, and the paperback is in the top ten overall bestsellers.
The police urgently need Harry Hole
A killer is stalking Oslo's streets. Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated, but failed to solve. The murders are brutal, the media reaction hysterical.
But this time, Harry can't help anyone
For years, detective Harry Hole has been at the centre of every major criminal investigation in Oslo. His dedication to his job and his brilliant insights have saved the lives of countless people. But now, with those he loves most facing terrible danger, Harry can't protect anyone.
Least of all himself.
Register your interest now by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to invite you to an evening of music with Anthony Toner on Friday 31st May at 8:00PM. This event is now SOLD OUT.
Anthony Toner has been described as ‘John Prine meets James Taylor – in a second hand book shop’. His single ‘Sailortown’ grabbed the attention of radio listeners in Northern Ireland last year. It was an utterly contemporary, clear-eyed depiction of a doomed teenage romance - set against the backdrop of Belfast’s fabled Sailortown neighbourhood, now undergoing all kinds of transformations.
Anthony was a journalist for 17 years, and held down a part time job as a guitarist and singer in a dance band, travelling and gigging all over the country.
His first album Eventually gained a great response from critics and DJs, but the success of ‘Sailortown’ propelled his second collection, A Sky for Every Day into the spotlight. The album picked up major reviews and sales, thanks to ‘Sailortown’ and the equally radio-friendly single ‘Marion, That’s All Right’.
In recent years, in addition to building a growing fanbase in Northern Ireland, he shared the stage with Nanci Griffith and Guy Clark in Nashville, and showcased in a special gig at Austin’s South by South West. He’s also developing a strong following in Canada.
His live performances always feature entertaining stories from the road, references to some of the influences, literary and otherwise, behind his songs, peerless guitar playing and thought-provoking songs that stay with you on the way home.
Book your tickets now by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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No Alibis Bookstore are very pleased to invite you to a very special launch party to celebrate the publication of THE WANDERER IN UNKNOWN REALMS Limited Hardbound Cloth Edition by John Connolly and illustrated by Emily Hall on Thursday 6th June at 7:00PM in No Alibis Bookstore. John and Emily will be in the shop to personalise copies of this beautiful new edition.
Soter, a Great War veteran with no past he wants to remember, takes the occasional assignment from the London barrister Quayle. His new task is to find Lionel Maulding, a wealthy bachelor with only one distinctive attribute: a passionate, almost obsessive love of books.
Visiting Maulding's country home, Soter finds rooms and rooms of books, but strange and frightening things as well. Wherever Maulding has gone, Soter realizes, it had to do with the hunt for one specific book, a book with powers Soter cannot even imagine. Where Soter's quest converges with Maulding's, entire worlds may be revealed and changed.
The Wanderer in Unknown Realms is a story in the tradition of M.R. James and Dickens, full of horrors and wonders and illustrated beautifully by Emily Hall. It will be available in early June in a limited hardcover edition, signed by author and illustrator.
Book your spot now by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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To mark the publication of HOLY ORDERS, the latest Quirke novel by Benjamin Black, Mantle Books and No Alibis Bookstore are very pleased to invite you to hear Benjamin Black aka John Banville in conversation with Dave Torrans on Friday 7th June at 7:00PM in No Alibis Bookstore.
John Banville, born December 1945 in Wexford, is a novelist and screenwriter. His novel The Book of Evidence (1989) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the Guinness Peat Aviation award. His eighteenth novel, The Sea, won the Man Booker Prize in 2005. He sometimes writes under the open pseudonym Benjamin Black.
Banville is known for his precise and cold prose style, Nabokovian inventiveness, and for the dark humour of his generally arch narrators. His stated ambition is to give his prose "the kind of denseness and thickness that poetry has".
The latest compelling Quirke Dublin mystery.
She looked at him and smiled sadly. ‘You’ve lived too long among the dead, Quirke,’ she said.
He nodded. ‘Yes, I suppose I have.’ She was not the first one to have told him that, and she would not be the last.
1950s Dublin. When a body is found in the canal, pathologist Quirke and his detective friend Inspector Hackett must find the truth behind this brutal murder. But in a world where the police are not trusted and secrets often remain buried there is perhaps little hope of bringing the perpetrator to justice.
As spring storms descend on Dublin, Quirke and Hackett’s investigation will lead them into the dark heart of the organisation that really runs this troubled city: the church. Meanwhile Quirke’s daughter Phoebe realises she is being followed; and when Quirke’s terrible childhood in a priest-run orphanage returns to haunt him, he will face his greatest trial yet . . .
Book your tickets now by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a new date and venue for this event. If you are unable to make the new date, please contact the shop for an immediate refund. The good news is that the new venue means we are able to accommodate more people that we had originally planned.
No Alibis Bookstore is pleased to invite you to an evening of music with Ben Glover with special guest Matt McGinn on Saturday 15th June at 8:00PM in the Ulster Museum. Tickets, priced £12, are now available.
Ben Glover hails from Glenarm, Co Antrim, a small coastal village 30 miles from Belfast, N. Ireland. This singer/songwriter traded in a degree in law to peruse music and from all accounts it was a move that has paid off. Glover has been compared to Ryan Adams, David Gray and Bruce Springsteen and has been called “one of the finest writers in Ireland today.”
Glover has garnered rave album and concert reviews from across the globe and has toured extensively both as an opening act as well as a headliner. In the past calendar year his touring schedule included dates in Belfast, London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dublin, New York, Brussels as well as dates at the famed Hotel Café in Los Angeles and sold out shows in the Nashville’s legendary Bluebird Café.
Glover has toured and/or performed with Vince Gill, Mickey Raphael, Buddy Miller, Jim Lauderdale, Mary Gauthier and Jason Mraz. His fourth full-length album, “Do We Burn the Boats?”, was released in Spring 2012.
Originating in a village in the Mourne Mountains called Hilltown, Matt has truly made his stamp on the Northern Irish music scene and further afield with his unique blend of heartfelt and quirky songs. At the beginning of 2012 Matt shared a stage 'In the Round' with Nanci Griffith with the Belfast Nashville Festival. This led Matt to a trip to Nashville and the beginning of a very successful cowriting partnership with published artist Madeleine Slate. Together they have penned three songs from Matt's forthcoming album, one of which has already featured in a major American TV show.
Matt has since co-written with several others, including Ireland's Ben Glover, Nashville's Michael Logen and Appalachia's 'Iodine' and Canada's Madeleine Slate and produced albums for several artists including Melbourne's David Hosking.
Over the last few years Matt has been privileged to have spear-headed workshops across the country where he has helped others develop songwriting skills in schools, with people of special needs, and in underprivileged areas.
Book your tickets now by emailing David, or calling the shop on 9031 9607.
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