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£9.99‘Luminous and devastating, a portrait of modern masculinity as shaped by class, by trauma, and by silence, but also by the courage to love and to survive"
Fortnight Magazine issue 497
£7.00A monthly political and cultural magazine published in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The magazine was founded in 1970 with the aim of providing analysis and criticism of politics, culture, and the arts f...
Giant
£7.99Thrilling historical fiction on the childhood of beloved author CS Lewis. Davy, a working-class boy living in East Belfast in 1908, is sent to work at the wealthy Lewis household. When he meets Jac...
GUB by Scott McKendry
£10.99Demons, geese, The Laughing Cow, marching bands, LSD and pistols smuggled home from the USSR. You'll find all these in Scott McKendry's GUB. Rooted in the language of working-class Belfast, and slippi...
I Hear You by Paul McVeigh
£9.99Irish Times: Books to Look Out for in 2025 ‘These moving short stories are brave, honest, raw and funny, doing what fiction does best, showing us the lives of others and in so doing showing us ou...
IMPERMANENCE – ESSAYS
£10.00"Impermanence" is a new publication of 12 essays by writers from or living in Northern Ireland. Written against the backdrop of Brexit, the Covid pandemic, the burning of Notre Dame, and the centen...Signed
Kitchen Hymns
£12.00Kitchen hymns are the songs sung at home, not in the chapel; in vernacular speech, not Latin. The poems in Padraig O Tuama's new collection are a form of hymnody that arise neither from belief nor dev...
Little Acts of Vigilance by Miriam Gamble
£12.99In Little Acts of Vigilance, the first collection of essays published by The Lifeboat, poet Miriam Gamble attends with precision to that which is often invisible. Inhabiting a space where the ...
Looking at the Woman in a Bomb Blast
£15.00A slender young woman falls backwards, blown off her feet by a bomb. Frozen in time, her bare legs stick up, her hands grasping the air. Her face is covered by a page from a newspaper. People approach...
Many Professional Wrestlers Never Retire by Dane Holt
£6.50The Lifeboat Press Poetry Pamphlet #14 Many Professional Wrestlers Never Retire is a thrilling exploration of masculinity and the possibilities of the lyric. These poems which explore, among other ...
No Alibis Press Big Bundle
£100.00This book bundle contains all nine available books published by us, with novels, short story collections, essays and a picture book for the special price of £100. Books included: The Lammister...
No Alibis Press Mini Bundle
£30.00This mini bundle gives readers a small introduction to what we've published over the last few years, at a special price. Books included: This Train is For by Bernie McGill, December St...
No Alibis Press Novel Bundle
£40.00In this bundle are three novels that we've published over the years, for a special price of £40! Books included in this bundle: The Lammisters by Declan Burke, Number 5 by Glenn ...
No Alibis Press Stories & Essays Bundle
£50.00This book bundle gathers together all of our essay and short story collections for the special price of just £50! Books included: This Train Is For by Bernie McGill, December Stories<...
North (Pre-Order for June 2025)
£14.99This edition of Seamus Heaney’s seminal fourth collection North, reproduced in its elegant first setting and original jacket, marks fifty years since first publication. By conjuring aspects of a ...
Number 5
£10.00No Alibis Press are proud to announce the reissue of Glenn Patterson's, Number 5. Number 5 is a three-bedroom terrace house in a suburban Belfast street. From the '50s to the present day, successiv...Signed
Openings-No Alibis Limited Hardback Edition-Signed & Numbered
£16.99** Limited Numbered Signed Hardback - Special No Alibis Limited Edition contains extra story 'The Chosen' ** Winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award Winner of the 2022 E. M. Forster Aw...Sale!
Paving the Path to Peace : Civil Society and the Northern Ireland Peace Process- Edited by:Connal Parr, Stephen Hopkins
Original price was: £40.00.£36.00Current price is: £36.00.This important contribution...to the history of this period shines a light on voices often left in the shadows of history's formal and established narrative, voices that reached across divides, laying...
Queering the Green
£15.00“… every poem is a queering of language; every poetry critic is a critic of the queer; every reader of poetry is engaged in a queer act; every performance of poetry is a queer ...
Saturn Devouring by Simon Costello
£6.50Saturn Devouring, the latest pamphlet by The Lifeboat, is a work of linguistic misdirection. Summoning from the cosmic to ground itself in damp fields and cattle sheds, Saturn Devouring ...
Sleepwalkers
£9.00Darkly moving and beautifully written, Bernie McGill’s debut collection of short stories explores the lives of women across the generations. From the storm-battered coastline of the north of Ireland...
The Benefactors – PRE-ORDER JUNE 2025
£18.99SPECIAL NO ALIBIS GIFT WITH EVERY PRE ORDER LIMITED EDITION "THE BENEFACTORS" TOTE BAG PLUS A COPY OF "ON PHOTOGRAPHY"- A RATION BOOK EDITION JOIN US FOR A LAUNCH PARTY ON 19TH JUNE. DETAILSSigned
The Boy from the Sea
£16.99'Compassionate, lyrical and full of devilment' - Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses 1973. In a close-knit community on Ireland’s west coast, a baby is found abandoned on the beach. Named Brenda...
The Bureau – Eoin McNamee
£18.99ISBN:9781529440423 Published:27 Mar 2025 Lorraine would say afterwards that she was smitten straight off with Paddy Farrell. You could tell that he was occupying the room in a different way, he fo...