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SUMMARY:Mícheál McCann Book Launch - Devotion
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nJoin us for a book launch of Mícheál McCann’s debut collection ‘Devotion’. \nYou can pre-order the book on our website here  \nBook your free ticket on TicketSource here \nAt the heart of Mícheál McCann’s eagerly awaited first collection is ‘Keen for A— ’\, a re-imagining of Eileen O’Connell’s heartrending Lament for Art O’Leary. In Devotion the poet transports the original tragedy in time and place. Echoing the 18th-century Irish\, it lives now in contemporary Belfast where a young man’s male lover is murdered. The sequence charts from premonition\, in filmic scenes\, the first encounter\, the news\, denial\, rage (and an oath of vengeance) to the funeral and A—’s family’s chilling silence afterwards. \nOther poems range from memories of childhood and relationships with parents to the author’s own imaginary child. There is a wry poem on animal homosexuality\, others on sea swimming and the satisfactions of a shared meal\, while an elegiac poem recreates the final joy of an RUC Constable in a gay bar before he’s shot by a member of the INLA. \nFor all the solemnity of its subject matter love poems leaven its atmosphere as Mícheál McCann’s debut glows with the sense of someone who knows he has ‘discovered the name of his destination’. \n  \n \n 
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/micheal-mccann-book-launch-devotion/
LOCATION:Harty Room\,\, Music Building\, QUB\, Belfast\, Co. Antrim\, BT7 1NN
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SUMMARY:Aimée Walsh Book Launch - Exile
DESCRIPTION:Book a free ticket here \nLeaving home was hard. Returning is impossible. Fiadh’s life is turned completely upside down on a night out in Belfast. \nPretty soon everyone has heard about what happened; it is impossible to keep the rumours from spreading\, the gossip from spiralling out of control. And just as she was beginning to finally figure everything out: she was feeling positive about her move to Liverpool\, she was starting to get on top of her uni work and had made some new friends. Now her life is in freefall and Fiadh is helpless to do anything about it. \nShe starts missing assignment deadlines\, stops turning up to class and doesn’t respond to any of her friends’ messages. Her nights revolve around random hook ups\, fuelled by drink and drugs. Without the tightknit group of friends she left behind at home or the support of the new friends she has made in Liverpool\, Fiadh’s life quickly descends into chaos\, a chaos that nearly costs her everything. \nPre-order a signed copy of the book here: \nhttps://noalibis.com/product/exile/ \nAimée Walsh is a writer from Belfast.\nHer debut novel Exile will be published by John Murray Press in May 2024. It has been listed as a highly anticipated release by The Irish Times\, Dazed\, and the Journal\, amongst others. \nIn 2023\, Walsh was longlisted for the London Magazine Short Story Prize.\nHer short fiction\, non-fiction\, and book criticism has appeared in The Irish Times\, The Observer\, RTÉ Culture\, Extra Teeth\, Dazed\, Refinery29 (US\, Germany\, Australia\, and UK)\, and The Independent (UK\, Spain\, and Ireland).\nIn Spring 2022\, she was a participant in the Faber Academy short story workshop ran by Lucy Caldwell. In 2021\, she was the recipient of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Emerging Writers Bursary in conjunction with the Irish Writers’ Centre. \nWalsh holds a PhD from Liverpool John Moores University in Irish Literature and Cultural History\, with a focus on Irish women writers from the north of Ireland. In September 2024\, this work will be published by Liverpool University Press in her first monograph\, Writing Resistance in Northern Ireland. \nShe is working on her second novel.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/aimee-walsh-exile/
LOCATION:Crescent Arts Centre\, 2-4 University Rd Belfast BT7 1NH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Phil Harrison Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in No Alibis Bookstore to celebrate the launch of Phil Harrison’s new book Silverback\, for what is sure to be a wonderful evening. This event is free of charge so book now to avoid disappointment.Tickets are available at the link below: \nBook your Free ticket Here \n \nIn a Belfast courtroom Robert Rusting is on trial for the murder of his father\, a former loyalist hardman. On the jury is James Fechner\, a middle-aged surgeon in search of meaning in the hushed rooms of justice\, inexplicably drawn to the younger man before him. After trial\, Fechner can’t quite return to life before those days in court. \nIn dingy pubs and rowdy boxing halls Fechner inserts himself into Rusting’s world in another guise\, following a compulsive pull to an aggressive\, unapologetic way of life. So begins a close friendship\, a relationship in which a battle for control is tacit but unspoken – and explosive. Silverback is a powerful portrayal of the complications of masculinity and of the line between fragility and violence told in an unforgettable voice. \n 
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/phil-harrison-book-launch/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Rónán Hession in Conversation with Jan Carson
DESCRIPTION:Join us in No Alibis Bookstore to celebrate Rónán Hession’s latest novel\, Ghost Mountain\, with an interview of the author by Jan Carson. This event is free but booking early to avoid disapointment is advised. Free tickets are available at the link below \nhttps://www.ticketsource.co.uk/no-alibis-bookstore-ltd/t-lnrngyd \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/ronan-hession-in-conversation-with-jan-carson/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Olivia Hope Storytime/Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Organised in partnership with Bloomsbury Publishing. Join celebrated author Olivia Hope as she reads and leads a creative workshop centred around her wonderful new picture book Little Lion Girl. \nFIND YOUR ROAR! \nIn an interactive feast for the senses\, children and parents join in on one little girl’s trip to the big city\, inspired by Little Lion Girl\, written by Olivia Hope and illustrated by Fiona Woodcock. \nLearn about amazing lions in the wild and in art and then create your own roaring lion too! \nChildren get the chance to create a colourful sensory lion themed artwork\, declaring all the positive affirmations from Little Lion Girl with actions and sound (I am amazing\, I am incredible) and solid advice for little (and big) ones on what to do if you get lost. \nFind your roar is an interactive\, engaging and colourful craft and drama session for children and their families. \nCome along and find your own roar! \nThis is a FREE event but space is limited. \nBook your ticket here
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/olivia-hope-storytime-workshop/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:STEVE CAVANAGH - WITNESS 8 - BOOK SIGNING
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Book Signing with Steve Cavanagh in No Alibis Bookstore on\n\nSaturday 27th July at 10.30am\n \nBOOK YOUR FREE TICKET HERE \n  \nThe very definition of a page-turner!’ \nIAN RANKIN \nSteve Cavanagh’s twists hit you between the eyes. You never see them coming’ \nANTHONY HOROWITZ \nThis guy is the real deal. Trust me! \nLEE CHILD \nSteve Cavanagh writes the best hooks in the business. \nMICK HERRON \n  \nAbout Witness 8 \nWHAT IF THE ONLY WITNESS TO A MURDER IS MORE TWISTED THAN THE KILLER? \nRuby Johnson is a nanny and maid to wealthy families in Manhattan’s West 74th Street. \nShe knows their routines. Their secrets. One night\, on her way home\, Ruby witnesses a neighbour’s murder. \nShe knows the victim. She knows the killer. She makes an anonymous call to the police and names the murderer. \nBut Ruby didn’t tell the truth… Because there’s something wrong with Ruby Johnson. Eddie Flynn\, conman turned trial lawyer\, must defend an innocent man accused of this terrible crime. \nAs Ruby’s deadly game begins\, one thing is certain. \nIt won’t be the last murder this witness is involved in… \n‘A fantastic thriller writer’ MARK BILLINGHAM’ \n 
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/steve-cavanagh-witness-8-book-signing/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Stuart Neville Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in No Alibis to launch Stuart Neville’s latest novel ‘Blood Like Mine’. This is a free event but booking tickets ahead is advised to avoid disappointment!\nTickets are available here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/no-alibis-bookstore-ltd \nRebecca Carter and her daughter Monica\, nicknamed Moonflower\, travel the American West\, always on the move\, always hiding\, always looking behind them\, always keeping Moonflower out of sight. They speak to no one\, only interacting with people when it’s absolutely necessary. But wherever they go\, bodies are left behind.Special Agent Marc Donner of the FBI has been tracking a killer for the best part of two years. A murderer that strikes once every few weeks. The victims are all men\, many disappearing only to be found months later\, dumped in forests or rivers or quarries\, far from their places of death. \n“Stuart Neville at his considerable best. A shocking and powerful thriller that is as moving as it is gripping. This is a book you will not forget in a hurry and which will leave you hungry for the next instalment” – MARK BILLINGHAM \nPre-order a signed first edition (special Indie edition!) copy using the link below \nhttps://noalibis.com/product/pre-order-blood-like-mine-stuart-neville-pub-15-aug-2024/
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/stuart-neville-book-launch/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240827T193000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Ireland Review 143 Belfast Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us for readings and the Belfast launch of Poetry Ireland Review Issue 143\, edited by Mícheál McCann. This event will be hosted by Mícheál and will feature readings from contributors local to the bookshop: Stephen Sexton\, Emma Must\, Brian Kerr\, Paul Maddern and Trish Bennett. \nReserve your FREE space here. \nMore about this issue of Poetry Ireland: \nPoetry Ireland Review Issue 143\, edited by Mícheál McCann\, is now available to purchase. The issue features new poems from Stephen Sexton\, Vona Groarke\, Emily Cooper\, and Paul Muldoon\, as well as work from emerging poets Isabel Dwyer and Rafael Mendes\, among many others. Irish-language editor Aifric Mac Aodha’s selection includes poetry from Mícheál Ó hUanacháin and Orlaith Ní Icí. \nSpecial additions to the issue include a set of poems from Pulitzer Prize finalist Mary Ruefle and the poetry of the late Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer\, translated into Irish by Colm Ó Ceallacháin. It also features a collaborative essay remembering poet and teacher Gerald Dawe.\nIn this summer issue\, there are a total of 18 books reviewed which speak on internationalism\, surrealism\, and disability\, including collections from Elaine Feeney\, Ciarán O’Rourke\, and Susan Rich\, as well as debut collections from Trudie Gorman and Milena Williamson. \nOther prose in this issue includes Ellen Orchard’s essay on how a poem can bear witness along with Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha’s essay discussing writing poetry in the Irish language today. \nThe artwork in issue 143\, which weaves together the personal and the collective\, is from photographer and visual artist Eslam Abd El Salam\, based in Belfast. \nPresented in partnership with Poetry Ireland. \nPoetry Ireland is funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon & the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/poetry-ireland-review-143-belfast-launch/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Paddy Hillyard Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in No Alibis Bookstore to celebrate the Launch of Paddy Hillyard’s book ‘Decades of Deceit’. This fabulous event is free but book tickets to avoid disappointment! \nFree Tickets available here  \nThe book is available to purchase here: https://noalibis.com/product/decades-of-deceit/ \nThis book is a forensic account of the Stalker inquiry into RUC shoot-to-kill operations in 1982. It attacks the official narrative that there was no conspiracy to remove Stalker and details the efforts by his own police force to invent disciplinary charges. MI5’s secret security strategy in N Ireland is central and remains so to this day \n  \n 
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/paddy-hillyard-book-launch/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240829T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240829T190000
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SUMMARY:Carlo Gébler Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:No Alibis is delighted to celebrate the launch of Carlo Gébler’s latest work ‘A Cold Eye’. Join us for what is sure to be a fantastic evening. Tickets for this event are free but advance booking is recommended to avoid disappointment! Tickets available here https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/no-alibis-bookstore-ltd/t-avmrjjr \nIf the past is another country – what happens when we revisit it\, one day a year?\nCarlo Gébler has done just that. Here is the story of Ireland – from the tail end of the Troubles to the Good Friday agreement\, to the glory days of the Celtic Tiger to the recession to Brexit and on to the present\, where\, it appears\, everything we thought we could take for granted is no longer a given.\nDrawing from journals he has kept for over four decades\, Gébler stitches together days of his life into something bigger than his own lived experiences – a vivid patchwork history of the island over thirty-five years\, capturing those sweeping changes in sharp\, funny\, slantwise pieces that will prompt readers to reflect on the strange process of how we got here.\nThis intelligent and affectionate compilation\, written in Gébler’s sparkling prose\, is a joy. Whether read from beginning to end or dipped into\, it will appeal to anyone with even a passing interest in the astonishing evolution of our island.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/carlo-gebler-book-launch/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Dr Ian Miller A History Of Ireland in Ten Body Parts - Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nJoin us for an Evening with Dr Ian Miller to celebrate the launch of \n“A History of Ireland in Ten Body Parts” \nIan will be introduced by Dr Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire. \nSkulls\, heads\, hands\, height\, legs\, sex organs\, blood\, brains\, stomachs\, ears and corpses – discover Irish history through the prism of the body. From the brutal beheading of the 25-year-old\, red-headed Clonycavan Man some 2\,000 years ago\, and the rich vein of information that has been preserved in his ‘bog body’\, to the ancient skulls stolen from islands off Ireland’s west coast believed to be those of giants – here medical historian Dr Ian Miller brings readers on a uniquely entertaining journey through Irish history. \nEncounter the famous scribes\, including St Patrick\, who preserved our knowledge of ancient Ireland by hand. Discover the fears of excessive tea drinking that were once such a great cause for concern on this isle. Meet the doctors who revolutionised Irish medicine in the 19th century – along with the gruesome bodysnatching that accompanied it. Here\, fact and folklore intertwine to take you on a fascinating journey through Irish history as you’ve never experienced it before. \n \nDr Ian Miller is Lecturer in Medical History at Ulster University\, Northern Ireland. Ian is author of six medical history books on topics including the force-feeding of hunger strikers and how the Irish diet changed after the Irish Famine. His work has featured in several BBC and RTÉ radio shows\, and on Disney Plus. \nMáirtín Mac Con Iomaire is an Irish lecturer and professional chef. He was awarded Ireland’s first PhD on food history\, in October 2009. \nThis is a FREE event. \nReserve your place here
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/dr-ian-miller-a-history-of-ireland-in-ten-body-parts-book-launch/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Ghosts of a Family by Edward Burke - Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Ghosts of a Family : Ireland’s Most Infamous Unsolved Murder\, the Outbreak of the Civil War and the Origins of the Modern Troubles\nBy Edward Burke\n \nPlease RSVP to \ninfo@merrionpress.ie \nAt 1.20 a.m. on 24 March 1922\, five men\, four dressed in British police uniforms\, broke into the North Belfast house of Owen McMahon\, a well-known Catholic publican. They fatally shot McMahon\, four of his sons and Eddie McKinney\, an employee of the family. Nobody was ever charged for these ruthless and cold-blooded murders. \nIn retaliation for these and other Belfast murders\, the IRA assassinated the former head of the British Army\, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson\, and a subsequent British ultimatum to the Irish government sparked the first salvos of the Irish Civil War days later. The reluctance of the unionist Belfast government to pursue loyalist killers drove the rift between Northern Ireland’s two main communities even deeper\, laying the foundations for the Troubles at the end of the twentieth century. \nOver 100 years later\, Edward Burke has expertly uncovered the identity of the McMahons’ likely murderer. This is a riveting cold-case investigation that invokes the smoke-filled streets of Belfast during the cataclysmic violence of 1920–22\, and explores how the ramifications of the McMahon killings are still being felt to this day. \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nDr Edward Burke is a historian at University College Dublin\, specialising in the study of political violence\, insurgencies and paramilitarism. His previous books are An Army of Tribes: British Army Cohesion\, Deviancy and Murder in Northern Ireland (Liverpool\, 2018) and Ulster’s Lost Counties: Loyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920 (Cambridge\, 2024). \n 
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/ghosts-of-a-family-by-edward-burke-book-launch/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240926T173000
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SUMMARY:Kieran Connell & Maurice J. Casey Book Launches
DESCRIPTION:No Alibis Bookstore is delighted to be hosting an evening with Kieran Connell and Maurice J. Casey to celebrate the launch of their new books. Tickets for this event are free and are available here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/no-alibis-bookstore-ltd/t-rpyepjd \nSee you there! \nMulticultural Britain : A People’s History\, Kieran Connell\nBetween the end of the Second World War and the early twenty-first century\, Britain became multicultural. This vivid book tells that remarkable story. Kieran Connell\, an historian of Irish and German heritage who grew up in Balsall Heath\, inner-city Birmingham\, takes readers into multicultural communities across Britain at key moments in their development. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nHotel Lux : An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals\, Maurice J. Casey\nHotel Lux follows Irish radical May O’Callaghan and her friends\, three revolutionary families brought together by their vision for a communist future and their time spent in the Comintern’s Moscow living quarters\, the Hotel Lux. Historian Maurice Casey reveals the connections and disconnections of a group of forgotten communist activists whose lives collided in 1920s Moscow: a brilliant Irish translator\, a maverick author\, the rebel daughters of an East London Jewish family\, and a family of determined German anti-fascists.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/kieran-connell-maurice-j-casey-book-launches/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241002T180000
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SUMMARY:Juliana Adelman Book Event
DESCRIPTION:No Alibis Bookstore is delighted to welcome Juliana Adelman for an evening to celebrate her novel ‘The Grateful Water’ (New Island Books\, 2024)\, in conversation with historian Elaine Farrell (Bad Bridget\, Penguin 2023). \nFree tickets for this event are available here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/no-alibis-bookstore-ltd/t-xmopgam \nSee you there! \n  \nWhen a young butcher spots a strange shape on the banks of the River Liffey in the hot summer of 1866\, the city of Dublin is gripped by a grimy case of infanticide. Detective Martin Peakin\, an amateur entomologist and full of regret for his failed engagement\, sets off in search of the murderer\, eager to impress his superiors. But\, as Peakin draws closer\, he begins to realise that not all is as it seems.\nEveryone related to the case is hiding something\, while his own secrets threaten to bubble to the surface. The river binds these Dubliners together\, but who will it divide in the end? And will Peakin actually solve this most shocking\, ordinary and desperate of crimes?The Grateful Water – sticky with blood and secrets and guilt – will suck you in until the last page.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/juliana-adelman-book-event/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241003T193000
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SUMMARY:How Banksy Saved Art History by Kelly Grovier - Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join Us For A Book Launch with Kelly Grovier \nBook your Free space HERE \n  \nA new take on the history of art – from da Vinci to Warhol – as reinterpreted and ultimately reinforced by the international phenomenon that is Banksy. Few would dispute that Banksy is the most famous urban artist in the world today. That he is also one of the most perceptive art historians of our age might come as a surprise to many. But the myriad memorable works he has created over the past thirty years constitute an audacious commentary on the history of image-making – a captivating critique waiting to be pieced together. Armed with little more than stencils\, spray paint and an anonymizing cloak of after-hours darkness\, Banksy has forged an alluring identity for himself as an incorrigible prankster who doesn’t embrace tradition but shreds it. What actually illuminates Banksy’s audacious murals\, impromptu urban sculptures and vandalized paintings\, however\, is a profound understanding of the story of art. Banksy recasts masterpieces as powerful comments on contemporary issues: climate change\, consumerism and the struggle for peace\, and reveals these works to be surprisingly elastic\, resilient and relevant. In this fully illustrated and entertaining exploration\, bestselling author Kelly Grovier traces art history through Banksy’s lens\, presenting many of his most recognizable works: from his droll lampooning of the Lascaux cave paintings to his reinvention of Monet’s enchanting water-lily pond\, a reboot of Géricault’s tragic gut-wrenching vision to Vermeer’s girl now instilled with street cred\, everyone’s genius is grist for his unmerciful mill. Far from being diminished in their significance\, however\, the works that Banksy ruthlessly parodies are ultimately refurbished by the ordeal. Banksy’s iconoclastic works force us to rethink our affection for\, and appreciation of\, great works of art that define cultural history.\nKelly Grovier is a columnist and feature writer for BBC Culture\, and his writings on art have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement\, the Independent\, The Sunday Times\, the Observer\, RA Magazine and Wired. \n\nKelly Grovier is the author of several books\, including A New Way of Seeing: The History of Art in 57 Works (2018)\, On the Line: Conversations with Sean Scully (2021) and The Art of Colour (2023)\, all published by Thames & Hudson. He is co-founder of the scholarly journal European Romantic Review.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/how-banksy-saved-art-history-by-kelly-grovier-book-launch/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Forest Yet to Come by Sam Thompson
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special event to launch the third and final instalment of the Wolfstongue series by Sam Thompson. \nReserve your FREE space here. \n‘Once you start\, you can’t turn back. Deep in the Forest is a cave\, and in the cave is a chamber\, and in the chamber are the dreams. They could yet come true.’ \nFaolan and Sally have no memory of their lives before they arrived at the Land ten years ago. In this self-sufficient community\, good fortune comes from mysterious beings known as the shapes\, and no one is to venture into the Forest; a dangerous place full of fearsome wolves. When a strange gentleman named Reynard emerges from the Forest\, he quickly befriends Faolan and Sally. \nBut the community are both suspicious and enthralled by his storytelling. In the wake of a terrible attack\, the shapes seem to abandon their people. Faolan flees into the Forest seeking the wolves that have always fascinated him\, and Reynard and Sally are banished. \nTheir pursuit of Faolan leads them to uncover many mysteries. As they are drawn further in\, the community they once knew begins to fracture. There is no keeping the Forest out any longer\, and nothing will ever be the same again. \nBook your free ticket at the Ticketsource event link below.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/the-forest-yet-to-come-by-sam-thompson/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:George Hamilton Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:  \nNo Alibis is delighted to host an evening celebrating the launch of George Hamilton’s latest book ‘The Hamilton Notes’ with special guest speaker Connor Phillips. Join us in the Crescent Arts Centre for what is sure to be a fantastic evening. This event is free of charge but be sure to reserve a ticket to avoid disappointment. Tickets available here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/no-alibis-bookstore-ltd/t-eaydaea \nThe incomparable George Hamilton returns with a superb offering of travails and anecdotes spanning his five decades on our airwaves and on our screens\, always at the heart of Irish culture.\nPicking up where his first offering\, The Nation Holds Its Breath\, left off\, George continues to illuminate the path that took him from the Cregagh Road in Belfast to the most extraordinary locations across the world. Whether going behind the scenes of his beloved Lyric FM show or reliving the dramatic events of the 100-metre final at the 1988 Seoul Olympics\, the reader will be captivated once more by George’s storytelling as he expertly weaves tales and paints the most evocative pictures.\nSport\, music and travel are intertwined throughout – George’s love for all three evident on every page. His writing style is consistently surprising; the reader is never quite certain where George is taking them but few will be able to resist being caught up in the stories and going along for the ride.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/george-hamilton-book-launch/
LOCATION:Crescent Arts Centre\, 2-4 University Rd Belfast BT7 1NH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Let's Dance by Lucy Sweeney Byrne: Belfast Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening to celebrate the launch of Lucy Sweeney-Byrne’s second collection of short stories\, Let’s Dance\, published by Banshee Press. Lucy will be introduced by local author\, Alexander Poots. \nBook your free ticket HERE. \nThis collection of dark\, hilarious and provocative short stories explores women on the brink – of love\, of joy\, of disaster – with Lucy Sweeney Byrne’s signature wit\, insight and daring. \nI’ve seen how the clouds look when viewed from above\, stretched pink and gold-tinged for miles and miles and miles. I’ve seen a single cumulus cloud against a blue sky from my seat outside a café below\, thrumming still in upness. I’ve seen the making of The Matrix bonus feature on the DVD\, Keanu Reeves being lifted in his harness\, Harvey Weinstein smiling and slapping backs on his way to somewhere else. I’ve seen dirty clothes pile up in a laundry basket\, and hairs in the drain. I’ve seen smoke rise from the bonnet of my car. \nA newlywed grapples with the chasm that has opened up between her and her husband on the subject of children. A young mother tries to eke out a life for her family on an island named for a dead man\, unaware of the psychic toll that is taken on her by the land and sea. And a woman at a drug-fuelled house party ruminates on the dark past she shares with one of the guests. Utilising forms ranging from flash fiction to novella\, Let’s Dance is a glittering display of fiction’s ability to probe\, startle and entertain. \nLucy Sweeney Byrne is the author of the short story collection Paris Syndrome (2019\, Banshee Press)\, met with critical acclaim and shortlisted for numerous awards\, including the Edge Hill Prize\, the Kate O’Brien Award\, the Butler Literary Award\, and the John McGahern Prize. Lucy’s short fiction\, essays and poetry have appeared in The Dublin Review\, The Stinging Fly\, Southword\, AGNI\, Litro\, Grist\, 3:AM magazine\, and other literary outlets. She also writes book reviews for The Irish Times.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/lets-dance-by-lucy-sweeney-byrne-belfast-launch/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Susan Cahill Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in No Alibis Bookstore to celebrate the Launch of Susan Cahills’s book ‘The World Between the Rain’. This launch event is free to attend but reserve tickets to avoid missing out! \nGet your tickets via TicketSource here! \nIt’s the week before Halloween and Marina is about to turn thirteen. Her father died a year ago. Her mother has strangely fallen asleep and no-one can wake her. \nShe is sent to live with her mysterious grandmother who tells her that that you can enter a strange world between the ever falling rain in the west of Ireland. Marina enters a haunting watery world full of strange creatures\, demons\, gods and dream makers. Meanwhile\, in our world a strange sleeping sickness has taken over. \nWill Marina be back in time? Can she survive?
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/susan-cahill-book-launch/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Night & Day by John Connolly - Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Book Signing in No Alibis Bookstore\nwith \nJohn Connolly\n \nFollowing the highly acclaimed Nocturnes and Night Music\, Night & Day is filled with eerie surprises and dark delights. Night & Day takes us from the dusty shelves of an uncanny library filled with fictional characters to a bunker deep beneath the earth where scientists seek revenge on old Nazis\, from an English marsh haunted by a mother and her son to a country house where a grieving widower finds comfort in a most unlikely source. Concluding with the author’s account of how an obscure horror film brought him closer to his lost father\, and how nostalgia can help through our hardest times\, this is a collection that will move\, entertain\, and keep you reading late into the night. \nThis is a FREE event. Get your Free Ticket Here
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/night-day-by-john-connolly-book-signing/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Angela Graham Poetry Launch
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin us in No Alibis for an evening celebrating the publication of Angela Graham’s latest collection ‘Star- poems for the Christmas season’. Get your free ticket here  \n‘It takes a real poet to make those of us jaded by Christmas re-imagine the season. Angela Graham performs the feat of translating the festival into an urgent challenge\, fraught with our contemporary problems and yet full of joy. This book\, with its lovely illustrations\, will be used for a very long time.’ – Gwyneth Lewis\, inaugural National Poet of Wales
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/angela-graham-poetry-launch/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH EVENT: Rebel Women by Margaret Ward
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the launch of Margaret Ward’s new book\, REBEL WOMEN: Cumann na mBan in Belfast and the Glens of Antrim\, 1914–1924\, published by Beyond The Pale Books. \nAbout REBEL WOMEN: \nThe early years of the twentieth century saw nationalists in County Antrim fighting for their survival during a war intended to achieve the complete separation of Ireland from Britain. Belfast\, with its large Presbyterian population\, became the centre of Ulster unionist resistance and republican defiance. Here\, Cumann na mBan was organised in Belfast Central Branch and Craobh Iarthar – the West Belfast Branch. \nThe small nationalist population in the isolated communities of the Glens of Antrim\, where some of the last native speakers of the Irish language lived\, also took up arms\, despite being vastly outnumbered. There were Cumann na mBan branches in Ballycastle\, Cushendall\, Dunloy\, Glenravel\, Loughguile\, and Glenariffe. \nSectarian violence\, pogrom\, partition and defeat was the eventual outcome. Throughout\, republican women played an essential role. From the earliest years of Cumann na mBan to the War of Independence\, the Treaty and the ‘Northern Offensive’\, they were significant figures in the republican movement. Not only did they organise arms dumps\, shelter men on the run\, hide money and documents\, provide weaponry for operations\, care for the wounded and organise effective communication systems\, they also paid the price in terms of raids and imprisonment. \nTheir story has never before been told. Using new archival sources and information from some of the relatives of these forgotten activists\, renowned feminist historian Dr Margaret Ward gives us a compelling account of the courageous contributions of over fifty women who were members of Cumann na mBan\, or who were attached to the IRA. \n 
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/launch-event-rebel-women-by-margaret-ward/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:2025 Neil Shawcross Calendar Launch
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nIt’s that time of year folks! Our annual Shawcross-No Alibis calendar will be with us soon! The lovely calendar features images by local artist Neil Shawcross. \nNeil will be in No Alibis Bookstore on Saturday 30th at 3pm to sign. \nCalendars can be collected in store\, but if you can’t make it please contact the shop via email (david@noalibis.com) to arrange shipping. \nCalendars priced at £15
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/2025-neil-shawcross-calendar-launch/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Oliver Jeffers - Where to Hide a Star - Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Join Us for a Book Signing with Oliver Jeffers\nSaturday 14th December 11am – 12.30pm\n \nReserve your FREE space here \nCelebrate twenty years of The Boy in this highly anticipated new adventure from the internationally bestselling picture book creator of Lost and Found\, Oliver Jeffers! \nOnce there was a boy who would often play hide-and-seek with his friends the star and the penguin. The star was always easy to find\, but one day it went missing. So\, the boy radioed the Martian for help and soon found himself on an exciting spaceship rescue mission to the North Pole! But there\, he discovered that he wasn’t the only one who had always dreamed of having a star as a friend… The out-of-this-world\, long-awaited sequel to the much-loved Boy stories\, loved all around the world – now introducing a brand-new character! \n \nPhoto Credit – Yasmina Cowan \n 
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/oliver-jeffers-where-to-hide-a-star-book-signing/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - A Dream of White Horses by Paul Scraton
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with Paul Scraton to celebrate the launch of his new novel\, A Dream of White Horses\, published by Bluemoose Books. Paul will be in conversation with author Marcel Krueger (author of Babushka’s Journey and Iceland). Book your free ticket here. \nAbout A Dream of White Horses: \nBen travels through the night from London to a Baltic island. On the journey he listens to voice messages his friend Pascal has made to accompany photographs he began taking at fourteen of every room he ever slept in. The messages tell the story of a family\, of migration\, exile and the search for home in a fractured world.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-launch-a-dream-of-white-horses-by-paul-scraton/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Boy from the Sea\, by Garrett Carr - Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nBOOK YOUR PLACE HERE \n1973. In a close-knit community on Ireland’s west coast\, a baby is found abandoned on the beach. Named Brendan by Ambrose Bonnar\, the fisherman who adopts him\, the baby captivates the town and the boy he grows to be will captivate them still – no one can quite fathom Brendan Bonnar. \nFor Christine\, Ambrose’s wife\, Brendan brings both love and worry. For Declan\, their son\, his new brother’s arrival is the start of a life-long rivalry. And though Ambrose brings Brendan into his home out of love\, it is a decision that will fracture his family and force this man – more comfortable at sea than on land – to try to understand himself and those he cares for. \nTold over two decades\, Garrett Carr’s The Boy from the Sea is a novel about a restless boy trying to find his place in the world and a family fighting to hold itself together. It is a story of ordinary lives made extraordinary\, a drama about a community who can’t help but look to the boy from the sea for answers as they face the storm of a rapidly changing world. \nCompulsive reading. Compassionate\, lyrical and full of devilment. – Louise Kennedy \nA novel of heart-bumping power and sparkling vividness\, this book evokes the seethe and surge of an island nation’s sea fables while being suspicious of sentiment\, often wittily so. This is a strange\, beautiful\, truly compelling triumph\, a story about a very specific place that somehow comes to seem an everywhere and a people who feel familiar as faces in mirrors. A breathtaking achievement. – Joseph O’Connor \nThe Boy from the Sea is an utterly engrossing read. Atmospheric and incredibly moving\, I was captivated by the trials and triumphs of the Bonnars. A bittersweet ballad of a novel\, I’ll be thinking about for a very long time. – Jan Carson \nGarrett Carr teaches Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre\, Queen’s University Belfast\, and he is a frequent contributor to The Guardian and The Irish Times. His non-fiction The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland’s Border was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. The Boy from the Sea is his debut novel.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/the-boy-from-the-sea-by-garrett-carr-book-launch/
LOCATION:Seamus Heaney Centre\, 38-40 University Road\, Belfast\, BT7 1NN\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Pádraig Ó Tuama
DESCRIPTION:No Alibis Bookstore is delighted to announce an evening at the Crescent Arts Centre celebrating Pádraig Ó Tuama’s latest collection of poetry ’44 Poems on Being with Each Other and Kitchen Hymns a new collection of form and hymnody that arise neither from belief nor devotion. \nPádraig will be in conversation with award winning poet Gail McConnell for what is sure to be a memorable event. Tickets are free but booking early is recommended to avoid disappointment. \nTickets are available here. \n \n44 Poems on Being with Each Other features a remarkable and refreshing range of exceptional poems from around the world including contributions from Wendy Cope\, Constantine P. Cavafy\, Chen Chen\, Joy Harjo\, Patricia Smith and many more. It is an anthology that will delight readers just as Pádraig’s podcast has done for millions around the world.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/an-evening-with-padraig-o-tuama/
LOCATION:Crescent Arts Centre\, 2-4 University Rd Belfast BT7 1NH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: But & Though - Jake Hawkey
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the launch of Jake Hawkey’s debut collection\, But & Though\, published by Picador. Book your free ticket here. \nAbout But & Though: \nIn But & Though\, Jake Hawkey scrutinizes the impact of parental addiction on families\, its title a nod to the language of dependency\, its circles of prevarication and excuse. Hawkey’s poems chart the loss of a father and the resilient love between siblings\, and take an unflinching look at a parent–child relationship sometimes painfully inverted through alcoholism. Hawkey’s fresh perspective and playful style introduces a vital\, authentic new voice in British poetry. \nIt will appeal also to those interested in the wider literature of addiction and the complexities of urban working-class life in Britain. Hawkey approaches these subjects from highly original and personal angles\, breathing life into his characters and settings. Ultimately\, we come to know a young writer attempting to ‘detach with love’ as he strides forward into his own life.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-launch-but-though-jake-hawkey/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:After the Party by Sharon Dempsey - Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:After the Party by Sharon Dempsey is a story of a young woman named Georgia\, her battle for ‎justice and the lengths some mothers will go to protect their sons. When Georgia is raped by three ‎boys from influential families after a house party\, she decides to speak out… only to face cruel ‎accusations and backlash in response. As she fights to reclaim her truth\, the boys’ mothers use ‎every resource to shield their sons from accountability. Georgia’s attempts to take revenge from ‎these boys and their families seemingly end in failure. Torn between rage and resilience\, Georgia’s ‎struggle for justice becomes a test of her strength against a web of influence\, deceit and denial. A ‎powerful exploration of trauma\, revenge and the dark side of maternal love.‎ \nRESERVE YOUR FREE SPACE HERE
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/after-the-party-by-sharon-dempsey-book-launch/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Charles Lang - The Oasis - Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:The Oasis\nCharles Lang\n‘This debut collection announces Charles Lang as one of the best new poets in Scotland.’ — Alan Gillis \nA POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION \n \n  \nBOOK YOUR FREE PLACE HERE \nPulsing with the energy of urban life\, these poems traverse the gritty\, playful and tender moments that shape our lives. From the thrill of evading the police in ‘The Chase’ to the nostalgia of ‘New Shoes’ and the sheer abandon of ‘The Amusements’\, we are pulled deep into a world where chaos and community intersect. \nWith a clarion and uncompromising voice\, Charles Lang maps a labyrinth of memories\, blending sharp wit with darker undercurrents as he explores identity\, masculinity\, class and ecology. Whether reflecting on family\, friendships or fleeting moments of euphoria\, Lang offers an authentic snapshot of working-class lives\, where beauty is found in both the mundane and the extraordinary; in the human and the more-than-human. \nA sonorous celebration of language and place\, The Oasis is a vivid ode to the city’s streets and stories\, a testament to resilience and belonging. \nPraise for The Oasis \nYou’re stopped by the voice in these poems. Lang’s Glaswegian idiom is easefully natural\, versatile\, and a thrilling pleasure to read. But more than that\, the deftness of his verse – in its formal dynamism\, psychological subtlety\, and tonal range – is hugely accomplished. Sharpness of detail\, working class experience\, and rootedness in the local\, in these poems\, deliver a generous\, nuanced\, conceptually ambitious and emotionally powerful effect. This debut collection announces Charles Lang as one of the best new poets in Scotland. — Alan Gillis \nWith a calm eye and a companionable level-headedness\, Lang talks to his reader in his natural accent and tone\, taking us wryly through the amusements of ‘The Amusements’\, the schemes hatched on the schemes\, and on into the complications of university and young adulthood. There is a lovely direct clarity and refreshing openness to his work. — Nick Laird \nThe Oasis is a breathtaking debut—boldly crafted with raw honesty and a captivating quest for beauty in every corner. It challenges in its ways of surveying\, which are both kind and enthralling. This collection is a remarkable achievement in connecting our inner and outer lives. Formally brilliant and perfectly paced\, it feels like an exercise in refining our ways of being. — Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal \nThese poems opened like windows to the streets of my own childhood. The music in the language is succinct and vibrant. The urban experience is brought to life in this collection. A rare perspective indeed. — William Letford \n\nCharles Lang
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/charles-lang-the-oasis-book-launch/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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