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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Niamh Mac Cabe - Four Night Seas
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the bookshop for an evening to celebrate the launch of Niamh Mac Cabe’s collection of short stories\, Four Night Seas\, published by Lilliput Press. \n***BOOK YOUR FREE TICKET HERE*** \nSet across liminal landscapes\, Four Night Seas is a collection of stories from award-winning author Niamh Mac Cabe feature characters navigating emotional or existential thresholds – grieving\, seeking meaning or reconciling with the past. \nWhether a reclusive sculptor haunted by guilt\, a lost child drawing maps in the sand\, or a greyhound silently shadowing a man to a mountain lake\, Mac Cabe’s lyrical prose and ingenious narrative structures evoke an eerie\, tender intimacy. \nRich and atmospheric\, exploring themes of memory\, solitude\, loss\, and the mysterious rhythms of nature and human connection\, this collection blurs the line between the internal and external world\, and invites us into spaces of beauty\, melancholy and subtle transformation.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-launch-niamh-mac-cabe-four-night-seas/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Paul Charles - Hi Love\, You Just Dropped Your Glove: A McCusker Mystery
DESCRIPTION:Reserve your free space here \n\nJoin us for a Book Launch with Paul Charles to celebrate the publication of the third McCusker Mystery \nThomas Barry\, Lefty Kelly\, and Brendy McCusker were all teenage boys who were roaming the streets of Portrush\, Country Antrim in Northern Ireland in 1976 when Thomas Barry quite literally bumped into Isabella Scott\, and he uttered the words of the title. \nIn July 2019 the same Thomas Barry’s remains were discovered at the foot of the Pilgrim’s Steps in the Portrush Harbour.  McCusker and DI Lily O’Carroll are conscripted from the PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) in Belfast to help the already stretched local police force work on the case. They discover McCusker’s childhood friends Barry and Isabella Scott had married and then… well then everything became very complicated relationships wise involving Isabella’s sister\, Colette\, lawyers\, accountants and showband singers. Thomas had become an ultra-successful property developer\, sometimes in partnership with the Buckley Brothers\, at least one of whom doesn’t mind the\ncowboy approach to work.\nSet against the backdrop of the (actual) UK Golf Open taking place in a small seaside town\, where absolutely everyone has an opinion\, and their opinions they are keen to share.\nPaul Charles began his career in music at fifteen\, managing his first band\, The Blues by Five\, in his hometown of Magherafelt\, Northern Ireland. \nCharles co-founded the Asgard Agency with Paul Fenn and has since represented major artists including Tom Waits\, The Kinks\, Van Morrison\, Elvis Costello\, Robert Plant and Rory Gallagher. He has also programmed the Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury Festival for 25 years. A lifelong writer\, Charles published his first Christy Kennedy mystery in 1997. His eleventh novel\, Departing Shadows\, appeared in 2019.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/paul-charles-hi-love-you-just-dropped-your-glove-a-mccusker-mystery/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Richard O'Rawe & Bernadette O'Rawe - Witch Hunt
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the bookshop to celebrate the launch of Witch Hunt by Richard and Bernadette O’Rawe\, published by Severn House. \n***BOOK YOUR FREE TICKET HERE*** \nAbout Witch Hunt: \n‘Enriched by historical data\, this spellbinding police procedural has a vicious sting in its tail’ – Kirkus Reviews Starred ReviewHow can you get away with murder in a city full of cameras? London’s DSI Grace O’Malley must solve a puzzling case in this highly addictive blend of gritty police procedural and creepy historical horror by dynamic father-daughter duo Richard and Bernadette O’Rawe. \nThou shalt not suffer a witch to live . . . \nDetective Superintendent Grace O’Malley of London’s Metropolitan Police receives a dubious phone call. A self-proclaimed witch hunter\, using the alias of Matthew Hopkins\, the notorious seventeenth century witchfinder general\, is leading her to his first victim. \nSomeone is exploiting the bloody history of the witchfinder to start a modern-day witch hunt\, making sure their debut murder of a TV-medium is broadcast worldwide during Halloween night on Westminster Bridge. \nThe clock is ticking for this high-profile case. Grace needs to find out who is behind the premeditated crime before the witch hunter can strike again. But the more she investigates\, the more she finds herself in an intricate web of lies\, deceit and threats – a case even more complex and incredible than originally thought.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-launch-richard-orawe-bernadette-orawe-witch-hunt/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Tom Hulme - Belfastmen
DESCRIPTION:Join us at No Alibis for the launch of Tom Hulme’s Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life Before Gay Liberation\, published by Cornell University Press. \nBook Your Free Ticket Here \nBelfastmen reconstructs the everyday experiences of queer men in a region infamous for its recent history of intolerance\, violence\, and religious homophobia to show how queer lives before the gay rights movement were not only possible but also rich\, exciting\, and fulfilling. Irish churches and governmental authorities found the topic of sex between men unmentionable and imagined such vice as a problem only found in decadent and degenerate societies abroad. Belfastmen shows how this tacit ignorance and public silence paradoxically enabled male queerness to flourish with only rare exposure\, condemnation\, or regulation. \nTom Hulme traces the intimate lives of men across time\, space\, and self-understanding: their meeting places\, their sexual and romantic relationships\, the scientific and social models of desire they used to define themselves\, and the responses to them from families\, neighborhoods\, and the law. From Belfast’s industrial boom in the late nineteenth century to the social transformations accompanying WWII\, Belfastmen reveals how homosexuality finally emerged as a recognized social problem in the 1950s. Only then did Northern Ireland start to transform into the expressively homophobic society of the more recent past.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-launch-tom-hulme-belfastmen/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:John Connolly Book Launch - A River Red With Blood
DESCRIPTION:  \nJOIN US FOR A BOOK LAUNCH SAT 9th MAY\n \n  \nTICKETS ARE FREE BUT BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL \nThe players call it The Game. There are just two rules: No Killing Close to Home. No Killing Outside the Game. But what happens when those rules get broken?When the drowned body of a troubled teenager is recovered from a river in Maine’s Kennebec Valley\, and a young woman disappears from a small rural town\, they draw the attention of the private investigator named Charlie Parker. \nNow Parker will be forced to confront a band of men without morality and without loyalty\, not even to one another\, in a place where the very darkness is alive. Because something has emerged from the shadows\, something very bad. And it wants revenge.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/john-connolly-book-launch-a-river-red-with-blood/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Paperback Launch: Chloe Michelle Howarth - Heap Earth Upon It
DESCRIPTION:Join us at No Alibis to celebrate the launch of the paperback edition of Heap Earth Upon It\, published by Verve Books\, with author Chloe Michelle Howarth! \nBook Your Free Ticket Here \nJanuary 1965. The orphaned O’Leary siblings – Tom\, Jack\, Anna and Peggy – arrive in the village of Ballycrea\, tight-lipped about their troubled past and desperate for a fresh start. After being met with suspicion from most of the locals\, the family are thrilled when they’re taken under the wing of their well-respected neighbours\, Bill and Betty Nevan\, who offer them work\, companionship and an opportunity to fit in. \nBut for one of the O’Learys\, this new friendship sparks an intense attachment that makes the dynamic dangerous for all. It’s difficult to bury secrets\, but almost impossible to bury feelings… Crackling with suspense and intensity from start to finish\, Heap Earth Upon It revisits the rural Ireland of Howarth’s critically acclaimed debut\, delving into claustrophobic relationships and tangled identities\, and leaving you wondering who to trust until the very last page.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/paperback-launch-chloe-michelle-howarth-heap-earth-upon-it/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Sue Divin - Runaway Road
DESCRIPTION:Join Northern Irish author\, Sue Divin\, to celebrate the launch of her third novel\, Runaway Road. In conversation with Cathy Carson & Q&A. \n***BOOK YOUR FREE TICKET HERE*** \n\n\n\n\nThree life-changing minutes. Two siblings on the run. One choice that changes everything… \nAdults and teens\, writers and readers all welcome to this free book launch event. Light refreshments available from 5.30pm. Event starts 6pm. \nSue Divin is a Derry-based writer with Armagh roots. Her critically acclaimed novels are popular with teens and adults alike. Published in May 2026\, Runaway Road (First Ink\, Macmillan)\, is on the Irish Times ‘Best fiction of 2026’ list. Set in Northern Ireland and Donegal in 2023\, it explores themes of family and belonging\, identity\, borders and youth justice. Sue’s début novel\, Guard Your Heart\, shortlisted in the prestigious Carnegie awards and her 2nd novel\, Truth Be Told\, is now included on the Ireland’s curriculum. \nEzra is sixteen. He’s no stranger to crossing the line\, but this time it’s serious – and someone might be dead. To escape justice\, he’ll have to cross another line: the Northern Irish border. But that means leaving behind the only thing that really matters. His little sister\, Evie. Evie is nine and sees it differently. Why shouldn’t she go on the run with him too? Raised in care\, the siblings are used to feeling invisible. Now they have to become invisible for real. \nBook sales and signing will be available on the night\, with kind support of No Alibis Bookshop. \nSue Divin will be in conversation with Cathy Carson. \nCathy Carson is the writer and performer of the award winning one woman show ‘ Becoming Marvellous’ which has been staged in venues throughout UK and Ireland and is published by Flight of the dragonfly press. Her writing focuses on human connection and condition and she has performed for radio\, television\, festivals\, theatres and podcasts. She has been nominated for the pushcart prize for her performance poem ‘17’ and has been published in several anthologies.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-launch-sue-divin-runaway-road/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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