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SUMMARY:Book event: Jo Baker - The Midnight News
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with Jo Baker to celebrate the launch of her new novel\, The Midnight News. \nAbout The Midnight News: It is 1940 and twenty-year-old Charlotte Richmond watches from her attic window as enemy planes fly over London. Still grieving her beloved brother who never returned from France\, she is working hard to keep her own little life ticking over: holding down a dull typist job at the Ministry of Information\, sharing gin and confidences with her best friend Elena\, and dodging her difficult father. She has good reason to keep her head down and stay out of trouble.\nShe knows what happens when she makes a nuisance of herself. On her way to work she often sees the boy who feeds the birds – a source of unexpected joy amidst the rubble of the Blitz. But every day brings new scenes of devastation\, and after yet another heartbreaking loss Charlotte has an uncanny sense of foreboding.\nSomeone is stalking the darkness\, targeting her friends. And now he is following her. She no longer knows who to trust.\nShe can’t even trust herself. She knows this; her family have told so her often enough. As grief and suspicion consume her\, Charlotte’s nerves become increasingly frayed\, and soon her very freedom is under threat…\nRiveting and deeply moving\, The Midnight News is a tour de force from Sunday Times bestselling author Jo Baker – a breathtaking story of friendship\, love and war. \nBook your free ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-event-jo-baker-the-midnight-news-tickets-663602682487?aff=oddtdtcreator
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-event-jo-baker-the-midnight-news/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:We Play Here by Dawn Watson: Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Great Hall at Queen’s for the launch of Dawn Watson’s much anticipated collection\, We Play Here (Granta Books). Dawn will read from the book for the first time and audience members will have the chance to buy a signed copy on the night. \nWe Play Here is a collection of four poem-stories\, taking place in an underdeveloped area of Protestant north Belfast in the summer of 1988\, against a backdrop of political turbulence during the Troubles. Written from the perspective of four female friends in the months between finishing primary school and starting high school\, Watson paints an eerie\, elemental landscape of normalised violence\, poverty and neglect. \nThis is a graceful\, lyrical and evocative rendering of history through the expansive and imaginative space of a working-class girlhood. \n‘An extraordinary\, enviably great debut. Watson has that rare ability to capture the ever-present strangeness of childhood and to use that to let us into a specific history with intellectual and imaginative generosity… a game-changing narrative long poem you’ll want to keep close’ \n– Luke Kennard \n‘In We Play Here\, Dawn Watson gives us a closely mapped\, child’s-eye view of a North Belfast community in the mid-1980s\, where everyday violence refracts along gender lines in a way little enough heard about. Watson’s sequences\, in the voices of four twelve-year-old girls\, record this broken world innocently\, movingly and humorously – but\, more than this\, through their attention to beauty and wonder\, they map these girls’ inner lives\, where imagination and poetry itself survive’ \n– Leontia Flynn \nBook your ticket here: https://www.qub.ac.uk/events/whats-on/listing/weplayherebydawnwatsonbooklaunch.html
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/we-play-here-by-dawn-watson-book-launch/
LOCATION:Great Hall\, QUB\, Great Hall\, Queen's University Belfast\, Belfast\, BT7 1NN\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Denise Mina in Armagh
DESCRIPTION:In association with the John Hewitt International Summer School\, we would like to invite you to the Market Place Theatre in Armagh for an event with Denise Mina in conversation with Brian McGilloway. \nDenise Mina in Conversation with Brian McGilloway  \nDenise Mina is a Scottish crime writer\, playwright and comic book writer. A former university tutor in criminology and criminal law\, it was during her PhD studies at Strathclyde University that she penned her first novel: Garnethill (1998).The prize-winning author of fifteen crime novels\, she received the Theakston’s Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award twice. In 2019 she was awarded the MacIlvanny Prize for Scottish Crime for her thriller\, Conviction\, a New York Times Bestseller\, while The Less Dead was shortlisted for the 2020 Costa Book Awards best novel category. In her latest book\, The Second Murderer\, a smart\, atmospheric and witty mystery (published July 2023)\, she delivers a clever and timely new take on Raymond Chandler’s infamous detective\, Philip Marlowe. denisemina.com/ \n“…one of the most original voices in the notably expanding field of Irish crime fiction.” The Irish Independent. \n“Denise Mina is crime-writing royalty.” Val McDermid \n“Denise Mina is the cream of the crop\, an author who pushes the crime novel in new and exciting directions.” Ian Rankin \nBrian McGilloway is the author of the Inspector Benedict Devlin Mysteries and Lucy Black series. His most recent standalone novel\, The Empty Room\, was published in March 2022. \nTickets can be purchased here: https://marketplacearmagh.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873637167
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/denise-mina-in-armagh/
LOCATION:Market Place Theatre\, Market Place Theatre\, 9 Market Street\, Armagh\, Co. Armagh\, BT61 7BW\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Lee Child and Andrew Child in Armagh
DESCRIPTION:In association with the John Hewitt International Summer School\, we would like to invite you to the Market Place Theatre in Armagh for an evening with Lee Child and his brother Andrew Child\, in conversation with Stuart Neville. \nThe annual highlight of the JHISS\, multi award-winning Armagh writer Stuart Neville invites two of the most popular and critically acclaimed international crime writers to join him for this JHISS Crime Fiction Special. \nLee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. He is the creator of the iconic Jack Reacher Series\, a global phenomenon. Having written over 24 Jack Reacher novels and numerous short stories\, his books have consistently achieved the number one slot on bestseller lists around the world\, with book sales of over one hundred million. Now resident in the USA he grew up in the Midlands\, and after an extraordinary writing career he has announced his retirement from writing. \nAndrew Child\, his brother\, is a highly successful thriller author in his own right and has taken on the daunting task of continuing the Jack Reacher Series. Lee and Andrew have collaborated on three thrillers to date\, with the most recent\, No Plan B\, having been described by Karin Slaughter as “perfectly plotted … with bigger twists than ever before”. \n“Lee and Andrew Child nail it again with No Plan B.” Richard Osman \n‘It’s no wonder Jack Reacher is everyone’s favourite rebel hero.’ Karin Slaughter. \nStuart Neville is a critically acclaimed best-selling crime writer whose Jack Lemon and DCI Serena Flanagan series have won him many awards. \nTickets can be purchased here: \nhttps://marketplacearmagh.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873635901
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/lee-child-and-andrew-child-in-armagh/
LOCATION:Market Place Theatre\, Market Place Theatre\, 9 Market Street\, Armagh\, Co. Armagh\, BT61 7BW\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Challenging the Narrative - Cahal McLaughlin - Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Book launch of  ‘Challenging the Narrative: Documentary Film as Participatory Practice in Conflict Situations’\n  \n \n\n\nThe book addresses the role of filmmakers in creating platforms for survivors of political violence to tell their stories in order to challenge marginalizing narratives and injustices. Reflecting on films produced in the North of Ireland\, South Africa\, Haiti and Brazil\, the challenges and limitations of participatory practice as a form of public acknowledgement are addressed. \n\n\n\n\n\nBook your FREE space below\nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/challenging-the-narrative-book-launch-tickets-635440308067\nOrder the book here\nhttps://noalibis.com/product/challenging-the-narrative/
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/challenging-the-narrative-book-launch/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Aaron Edwards - A People Under Siege - Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn Northern Ireland’s centenary year\, military and political historian Aaron Edwards\, a native of Belfast\, explores the profound challenges facing Unionists\, as extraordinary uncertainty hangs over the future of the Union between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. \nIn doing so he confronts the narrow\, sectional beliefs and prejudices of unionists and loyalists\, as well as outlining their more positive and forward-thinking aspects. By embracing these\, Edwards explains how divisions could be healed and a position reached of mutual acceptance\, tolerance and understanding that will benefit the entire population. \nPre-order your copy here \nhttps://noalibis.com/product/a-people-under-siege-the-unionists-of-northern-ireland-from-partition-to-brexit-and-beyond-pre-order-may-2023/ \nReserve your Free place here \nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aaron-edwards-a-people-under-siege-book-launch-tickets-639732797017
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/aaron-edwards-a-people-under-siege-book-launch/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Alexander Poots - The Strangers' House Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nJoin us for a Book Launch. \nAlexander Poots will be in discussion with Malachi O’Doherty \nA penetrating study and celebration of Northern Irish literature—telling the region’s story through the extraordinary novels and poetry produced by decades of conflict. \nNorthern Ireland is one hundred years old. Northern Ireland does not exist. Both of these statements are true. It just depends on who you ask. How do you write about a place like this? THE STRANGERS’ HOUSE asks this question of the region’s greatest writers\, living and dead. What have they made of Northern Ireland – and what has Northern Ireland made of them? \n \nAbout the Author \nAlexander Poots was born in London in 1985. After studying at the University of Manchester and Magdalen College\, Oxford\, he worked as a bookseller. The Strangers’ House is his first book. He lives in Belfast. \nBook you free place here \nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/alexander-poots-the-strangers-house-book-launch-tickets-639343001127 \nOrder your copy here \nhttps://noalibis.com/product/the-strangers-house-writing-northern-ireland/
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/alexander-poots-the-strangers-house-book-launch/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230601T180000
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SUMMARY:An Evening With Steve Cavanagh\, Claire Allan & Brian McGilloway
DESCRIPTION:No Alibis in association with The Crime Writers’ Association invites you to an Evening of Criminal Chat. \nTo celebrate National Crime Reading month in June and the 70th anniversary of the Crime Writers’ Association we welcome you to an evening with three of the finest Crime Writers writing today\, Steve Cavanagh\, Claire Allan and Brian McGilloway.  \nSteve\, Claire and Brian will be chatting about their work and the importance of the crime genre within the literary world. \nBook your space here: \nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-steve-cavanagh-claire-allan-brian-mcgilloway-tickets-630696469117
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/an-evening-with-steve-cavanagh-claire-allan-brian-mcgilloway/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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