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SUMMARY:Keith Donald - NewBliss (A Memoir Play)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in the bookshop for a special evening with Keith Donald. Keith will be performing his memoir play\, NewBliss\, which will also be available to purchase as a book\, Music and Mayhem. ​The performance includes prose\, singing\, and music\, all played by Keith. After his performance\, he will take questions from the audience and sign books. \n***Book your free ticket here*** \nKeith Donald is a renowned saxophone and clarinet player who has played with some of the biggest names in Irish music\, including Van Morrison\, Ronnie Drew\, Moving Hearts and Christy Moore. \nKeith’s play\, NewBliss\, tells the story of his professional life\, from his first public performance on BBC Radio at the age of ten to playing high profile gigs in North America\, Africa\, Europe and Ireland. \nIn the show\, Keith recounts the highs and lows of his six-decade long career\, half of which was spent under the shadow of alcoholism. It is an insight into the life of a musician\, from pit orchestra gigs to pay the bills\, all the way through to sold out stadium tours. \nNewBliss was written during 2014 and is a one-man show consisting of verse\, prose and music. Keith’s journey from addiction to redemption is an inspirational story\, complete with both laughter and lessons.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/keith-donald-newbliss-a-memoir-play/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Penguin @ 90: Michael Magee\, Jan Carson and Stephen Sexton
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the bookshop for a celebration of the 90th anniversary of Penguin Books with three of the finest authors within Penguin-waddling distance of the bookshop: Michael Magee\, Jan Carson and Stephen Sexton! \nOur authors will be having an informal conversation on their favourite Penguin titles\, the significance of Penguin titles and bookselling\, and the importance of storytelling. \n***BOOK YOUR FREE TICKET HERE***
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/penguin-90-michael-magee-jan-carson-and-stephen-sexton/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Liam McIlvanney - The Good Father
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday 23rd July for an evening in the bookshop to celebrate the launch of Liam McIlvanney’s new novel\, The Good Father\, published by Bonnier books. Book your free ticket here. Signed copies of the book can be pre-ordered here. \nAbout The Good Father: \nGordon and Sarah Rutherford are normal\, happy people with successful\, fulfilling lives. They have a son they adore\, a house on the beach and a safe\, friendly and honest community in a picture-postcard town on the Ayrshire coast. Until one day\, Bonnie the lab comes in from the beach alone. \nTheir son\, Rory\, has gone – the only trace left behind is a single black Adidas slider. Their lives don’t fall apart immediately. While there’s still hope (and no body) they dig deep and try to carry on. \nIt’s a process of abrasion – a wearing away of happiness and normality; a slow degradation\, a gradual breakdown – until they’ll never be the people they were before. This sort of tragedy impacts a whole town. Does the community still feel the same after? What are folk saying about you? Who are your friends? Who can you trust? When the worst thing has happened and you’ve lost everything\, you either go under or you rebuild and start again. \n‘Beautifully written\, this is easily one of the finest crime novels I’ve read in a very long time’ C.M. EWAN \n‘Heart-stopping and heart-rending\, this is Liam McIlvanney’s best novel yet’ VAL MCDERMID
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-launch-liam-mcilvanney-the-good-father/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Black Pool by Tim MacGabhann
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the bookstore for an evening with Tim MacGabhann to celebrate the launch of his memoir\, The Black Pool\, published by Hodder & Stoughton. Tim will be introduced by local author Jan Carson. \n***Book your free ticket here.*** \nA raw and powerful memoir of addiction and recovery\, across three continents and multiple drugs\, from early childhood through adulthood.\n\nFollowing an obsessive mind trying (and failing) to find relief\, The Black Pool is a gripping thrill-ride through violent\, chaotic underworlds. Tracing the roots of an illness through the failures of youth and adolescence and finally back to childhood\, it’s about all the wrong places where addicts look for transcendence – from work\, to relationships\, to writing\, to anger. \nIt shows what happens when everything falls apart. It shows us rock bottom and the start of the journey to recovery from there. It’s a memoir shot full of holes and shocking clarities. And towards the end\, it achieves something like serenity – something like recovery.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-launch-the-black-pool-by-tim-macgabhann/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250816T150000
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SUMMARY:Signing Event: M.W. Craven
DESCRIPTION:M.W. Craven will be joining us in the bookshop to sign copies of his new book\, The Final Vow. ​ \n***Book your free ticket here.***  \nMike is a UK bestselling author\, best known for his Cumbrian based crime and thriller novels starring Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw. \nAbout The Final Vow: \nA shooting at Gretna Green. A bride is murdered on her wedding day\, seconds after she slips on her new ring. It’s brutal and bloody but she isn’t the first victim and she won’t be the last. \nWith the body count now at 17\, people are terrified\, not knowing where the sniper will strike next. With the nation in a state of panic\, the police are at a loss and turn to Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw – the only team who just might be able to track down a serial killer following no discernible pattern and with the whole country as his personal hunting ground. Can Poe and Tilly stop an unstoppable assassin\, who never misses his mark and never makes a mistake? Or will he find them before they find him… \n‘Washington Poe is a brilliant creation from one of the finest and most inventive crime writers of today’ Peter James \n‘Mesmerising\, macabre and magnificent. Poe and Tilly are unstoppable’ Chris Whitaker \n‘If you haven’t read any M.W. Craven yet\, fix that immediately’ S. A. Cosby \n‘I’ve been following M.W. Craven’s Poe/Tilly series from the very beginning\, and it just gets better and better ‘ Peter Robinson \n‘Poe and Tilly books are a joy’ Steve Cavanagh \n‘In Tilly and Poe\, M.W. Craven has created a stand-out duo who are two of the most compelling characters in crime fiction in recent years’ Fiona Cummins
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/signing-event-m-w-craven/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:EVENT POSTPONED Steve Cavanagh - Two Kinds of Stranger - Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:DUE TO CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND OUR CONTROL WE HAVE HAD TO POSTPONE THIS EVENT. WHEN WE HAVE A NEW DATE ARRANGED WE WILL NOTIFY EVERYONE WHO HAS RESERVED A PLACE FOR THE ORIGINAL DATE. APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAUSED\n\n\nJoin us for a book launch with the Award Winning Novelist \nSteve Cavanagh\n \nBOOK YOUR FREE PLACE HERE \nPRE ORDER YOUR COPY HERE \nSHE HELPED A PERFECT A STRANGER. SHE DIDN’T KNOW HE WAS THE PERFECT KILLER \nPerfect husband. Perfect apartment. Perfect friends and the perfect job. \nAs an internet celebrity – famed for her random acts of kindness – everyone knew it. \nSo when a betrayal causes her to lose it all\, millions of people are watching. But even at her lowest\, Ellie will always help someone in need. Which makes her the perfect target for a sadistic game. \nBecause as she soon learns\, you can never trust a stranger – and a seemingly random encounter plunges her into a nightmare worse than she ever imagined. The only person she can turn to is conman turned trial lawyer Eddie Flynn\, who must take on a case where nothing is what it seems. With the most cruelly ingenious mind manipulating events from the shadows\, everyone is in danger – including Eddie and his family. \nThe award-winning\, Sunday Times Top Five bestseller returns with a brand new thriller featuring the unforgettable Eddie Flynn. \nPraise for Steve Cavanagh: \n‘Unputdownable’ ALEX MICHAELIDES \n‘Will keep you guessing until the very end’ IAN RANKIN \n‘The ultimate treat for crime fiction fans’ JANICE HALLETT’ \nBooks this ingenious don’t come along very often’ MICHAEL CONNELLY \n‘A fantastic thriller writer’ MARK BILLINGHAM’
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/steve-cavanagh-two-kinds-of-stranger-book-launch/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Steph McGovern - Deadline - In Conversation
DESCRIPTION:No Alibis Bookstore in Association with Pan Macmillan Publishers welcome you to an event with Steph McGovern to celebrate the publication of her novel\nDEADLINE\n \nAuthor Photo Credit Carolyn Mendelsohn \nPLEASE NOTE-NEW VENUE-CRESCENT ARTS CENTRE UNIVERSITY ROAD  BELFAST \n‘A pacy\, witty\, engaging thriller\, entertaining and delightfully authentic\, but hard-hitting and thought-provoking too. I can’t wait for you all to read it.’ Ann Cleeves \nYour child has been kidnapped.\nYou are live on television.\nGoing live in 10\, 9\, 8… \nToday is a huge day for TV reporter Rose’s career. A live interview with one of the most powerful men in the country\, on one of the nation’s biggest TV shows. \nBut when she hears an unfamiliar voice in her ear\, she knows something is very wrong.\nHer earpiece has been hacked. She’s live on air in the middle of the interview and someone is telling her that they have kidnapped her family.\nIn order to protect them\, Rose must do exactly what the hijacker says. They are in control now. \n \nBOOK YOUR FREE TICKETS HERE. \n‘Fascinating and authentic peek behind the scenes… Steph McGovern lifts the lid and hooks us in with an irresistible set up.’ Val McDermid \n‘A fantastic premise. I was totally hooked from the dramatic start. Deadline is racy and entertaining with a thought provoking core. I’m already looking forward to reading more Rose Steedman adventures.’ Cecilia Ahearn \nSteph McGovern is an award-winning broadcaster who currently presents The Rest is Money podcast with Robert Peston. \nSteph has worked in journalism for over twenty years\, eight of them as part of the BBC Breakfast family. She went on to present her own BAFTA-nominated live daily show\, Steph’s Packed Lunch\, on Channel 4 and is a regular Have I Got News for You panelist and host. \nSteph is an avid crime reader and has interviewed countless authors including Val McDermid\, Harlan Coben\, Ann Cleeves\, Hillary Clinton\, Lee Child and Don Winslow\, as well as judging the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award at the Harrogate Crime Festival since 2019. \nDeadline is her first novel. \n 
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/steph-mcgovern-deadline-in-conversation-in-no-alibis-bookstore/
LOCATION:Crescent Arts Centre\, 2-4 University Rd Belfast BT7 1NH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Poetry Launch: Shakeema Edwards - Recipe for Leaving
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the bookshop for an evening with Shakeema Edwards to celebrate the launch of her pamphlet\, “Recipe for Leaving”\, published by Green Bottle Press. Shakeema will be introduced by local poet Milena Williamson. \n***Book your free ticket here*** \n Shakeema Edwards’ poems explore accidents of birth\, the aftermath of death and the scaffolding of a life inbetween. Through poems about her heritage\, her relatives’ stories and domestic (and other) skills\, Shakeema questions how we make the choices that form us. Antigua and its flora and fauna are lushly described through her memories and family reminiscences – ‘…love is the clash and tang of crushed papaya/nestled between saltfish and choba’ (The Chemistry of Cooking). As she changes countries and chooses what to leave behind\, her poems excavate identity and belonging – ‘Take fifteen minutes outside the airport to memorise palm trees/down to their roots\, down to the loam./Leave.’ (Packing). A fresh and distinctive new voice\, Shakeema Edwards is one to watch.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/poetry-launch-shakeema-edwards-recipe-for-leaving/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Dr Bot by Charlotte Blease
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Crescent Arts Centre for an evening with Charlotte Blease to celebrate the launch of her non-fiction title\, Dr. Bot : Why Doctors Can Fail Us—and How AI Could Save Lives\, published by Yale University Press. Charlotte will be interviewed by radio presenter William Crawley. \n***Book your free ticket here*** \nAbout Dr Bot: \nHow does AI compare to a doctor when it comes to saving lives?  Doctors are under-resourced and face unprecedented levels of stress\, with rising patient numbers and ever developing medical knowledge. But at the same time\, they are all too human\, prone to racial\, class and social biases that affect the care patients receive.  Can we improve patient experience and alleviate the burdens of doctors at the same time? In this groundbreaking study\, Charlotte Blease reveals how AI\, if handled with care\, could emerge as the most reliable physician in history. Drawing on interviews with authorities in AI\, doctors and patients\, Blease shows how technology – despite some resistance – is already making a difference. \nFrom diagnosis and second opinions to treatment and aftercare\, AI has the potential to revolutionise our healthcare.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-launch-dr-bot-by-charlotte-blease/
LOCATION:Crescent Arts Centre\, 2-4 University Rd Belfast BT7 1NH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Commedia Mortale - Wayne Holloway in conversation with Wendy Erskine and Adrian Duncan: The unreliable author; lived experience and spinning a yarn.
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the bookshop for an event with\nWayne Holloway in conversation with Wendy Erskine Adrian Duncan:\nThe unreliable author; lived experience and spinning a yarn.\n***BOOK YOUR FREE TICKET HERE*** \nLiguria\, Italy. In a mountain village sits an old farmhouse that stores the memories of those who have lived there and suffers the tales of the visitors who come and go. The house weaves its magic on all who encounter it.New owners move in and over time become entangled with a parade of oddball characters. From pagan ritual to the antics of modern village life\, the clash between outsiders and locals\, Commedia Mortale seeks to understand what is authentic in both: the tall tales of ageing Second World War Partisans\, the dreams of a chef to travel to parts unknown supported by a Greek chorus of drunks\, a talking parrot\, and asylum-seeking footballers with their own dreams\, and miraculously a visit to the village by Anthony Bourdain himself.\nParsed through the eyes of a film maker\, the ultimate outsider\, Commedia Mortale summons dreams of kinship and nightmares of enmity. Ranging across philosophy\, food\, history\, love\, loss and landscape\, Holloway conjures up a unique portrait of a place\, the fables of its past and the dilemma of how to live now. \n‘“Idiosyncratic” doesn’t begin to get near him.’– Guardian\n‘A Trojan horse of a novel. The conversational\, high-energy prose causes one to open the gates and then all hell breaks loose.’– Percival Everett on Our Struggle
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/commedia-mortale-wayne-holloway-in-conversation-with-wendy-erskine/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:In Conversation Stephen Walker & Donna Traynor discuss "David Trimble - Peacemaker"
DESCRIPTION:Join author Stephen Walker in conversation with broadcaster Donna Traynor\, as they discuss “Peacemaker” \, the new book on David Trimble at the Europa Hotel in Belfast. \n  \n£15.00 \n(Plus Booking Fee) \nBook Your Tickets Here \nDavid Trimble was one of the most influential figures in modern British and Irish history. A Nobel Laureate\, he negotiated the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 that helped to secure peace in Northern Ireland. In this first biography to chart Trimble’s life and death\, award-winning journalist Stephen Walker vividly details how this shy Belfast academic changed the political landscape of Northern Ireland. \nWith the cooperation of the Trimble family\, Peacemaker offers unparalleled insights into the life of a history maker: the first person to be elected First Minister of Northern Ireland and the last Ulster unionist to hold that title. Using interviews with his widow Lady Trimble and their grown-up children\, the book colourfully charts Trimble’s story from the County Down city of Bangor\, through the divisive world of unionist politics\, to his crowning moment at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo. It is a tale of how the leaders of unionism and nationalism worked together to end decades of violence to compromise and share power \nStephen Walker is an award winning journalist and the author of five books. He worked as a lobby correspondent at Westminster\, an investigative reporter with Spotlight and he is a former BBC Political Correspondent. \nDonna Traynor is one of Ireland’s most recognised and respected broadcasters with a journalistic career spanning more than three decades \nSigned Books available on the night. \nThe Penthouse Suite\nEuropa Hotel\nBelfast\nEvent Details\nStarts at 7:30PM \nLocation\nEuropa Hotel Belfast – Penthouse Suite\, Belfast\, BT2 7AP \n 
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/in-conversation-stephen-walker-donna-traynor-discuss-david-trimble-the-peacemaker/
LOCATION:Europa Hotel\, Great Victoria St\, Belfast\, Belfast\, Northern Ireland\, BT2 7AP
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SUMMARY:Poetry Launch: Jessica Traynor - New Arcana
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the bookshop for an evening with Jessica Traynor to celebrate the launch of her new poetry collection\, New Arcana\, published by Bloodaxe Books. \n***BOOK YOUR FREE TICKET HERE*** \nJessica Traynor’s New Arcana explores grief\, bad boyfriends and the power of female friendship through readings of the Tarot and Tim Burton movies. Moving from teenage friendship and destructive relationships towards a tangling with the realities of family life\, domesticity\, and desire\, this highly inventive collection builds into a heartbroken letter to a dear friend (personified in the poems as ‘lydia deetz’) who died by suicide. Interwoven with numbered poems from a newly imagined Major Arcana\, New Arcana celebrates both the holding on\, and the letting go. \nNew Arcana is Jessica Traynor’s fourth collection\, following Liffey Swim (2014) and The Quick (2019) from Dedalus and Pit Lullabies (2022) from Bloodaxe.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/poetry-launch-jessica-trayor-new-arcana/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Launch & In Conversation Event: The Cloud Kingdom by Máire Zepf & Andrew Whitson
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the bookshop for an evening with Máire Zepf and Andrew Whitson to celebrate the launch of their new children’s picture book\, Cloud Kingdom\, published by Little Island. \n***BOOK YOUR FREE TICKET HERE*** \n \nAbout Cloud Kingdom: \nAn archipelago of interconnecting stories and fables filled with the fantastical and a love of the craft of storytelling. \nWhen Nancy’s cat Pangur is stolen by the Faery people\, she finds herself striking a deal like no other: she is now the one-and-only storyteller for the Faery Kingdom. So starts Máire Zepf’s enchanting story collection\, reminiscent of fairytales and fables of past and present\, but entirely new. \nMáire Zepf is a multi-award-winning children’s author. Her books have been adapted for television and appear in ten languages worldwide. Máire was chosen as the first Children’s Writing Fellow for Northern Ireland in 2017. Andrew Whitson is an award-winning artist\, author and publisher from Belfast native. He has illustrated over thirty books.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/launch-cloud-kingdom-by-maire-zepf/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251029T193000
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SUMMARY:Saints - Tim MacGabhann in conversation with Wendy Erskine
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the bookshop for an evening with Tim MacGabhann to celebrate the launch of his debut short story collection\, Saints\, published by Scratch Books. \nTim will be in conversation with Wendy Erskine. \n***BOOK YOUR FREE TICKET HERE*** \n \nAbout Saints: \nThe debut collection of short stories from celebrated crime writer Tim MacGabhann. \nNine breathtaking\, gripping and oddly sublime tales of narcos\, cops and addicts in modern-day Mexico. Gritty hard-boiled tales shot through with the hallowed light of the miraculous\, written in MacGabhann’s pyrotechnic exhilarating prose. A constellation of rich\, vivacious stories of sewer diving\, ghosts\, a falling satellite and vengeful pigs. \n‘The stories in Saints are wise\, sad and electric\, gentle and attentive in their depiction of even the most jagged\, destructive impulses of the human heart.’ Colin Barrett \n‘This handful of offbeat lives\, their vivid Mexican setting\, their human light and shade\, are so well rendered they offer a sense of special access to other realities. As in life\, each story is a wormhole to the next\, a connectivity that not only makes a novel of this collection but inflates its reading to four dimensions\, with all the discovery that comes from entering a new milieu in person. For me this book does the heavy lifting of literature: more than a good read – it’s a parallel life.’ D.B.C. Pierre \n‘Tim MacGabhann works from an imaginative world that does not rest. His living characters open up their hearts to him\, and he reports back to us – a work of sublime devotion to a place and a moment that has been rendered in perfect detail. I go back to these stories long after reading them\, and wonder how those people are. It’s a sweet and violent magic\, and I remain gladly under its spell.’ Ben Pester \nAbout the author: \nTim MacGabhann is an Irish writer who divides his time between the UK and Mexico City. His first two novels\, Call Him Mine and How to Be Nowhere\, were published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson. Other fiction\, non-fiction and poetry has also appeared in The Stinging Fly\, The Dublin Review\, The Tangerine\, Magma\, Poetry Ireland Review\, and The Rialto\, among others.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/saints-tim-macgabhann-in-conversation-with-wendy-erskine/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251030T193000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Ireland launch: Trumpet 14 edited by Nandi Jola
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in the bookshop for an evening to celebrate the launch of Trumpet 14\, published by Poetry Ireland. Trumpet is a bite sized literary pamphlet of reviews\, opinions and essays on poetry and the arts. This issue of Trumpet is guest edited by Nandi Jola. \n***BOOK YOUR FREE TICKET HERE*** \nTrumpet 14 \nTrumpet 14\, edited by Nandi Jola\, is now available for pre-order purchase online. It features poetry from Shelley Tracey\, Mari Maxwell\, Sello Huma\, and Amy Abdullah Barry\, among others\, as well as striking artwork  from Anfaal Al-Mughalles.\nTrumpet offers an alternative commentary on the poetry and literary scenes\, including both mainstream and marginalised voices. Nandi Jola’s issue focuses on themes of migration\, memory\, and breath/breathlessness. From the editor: ‘Breath has that lingering sense of travelling somewhere\, of being inhaled by something or someone else\, and by unravelling the connections of breath comes topics of seeking refuge\, drowning\, injustice\, citizenship\, and forced migration.’\nThese themes are explored in essays and short stories as well as poetry. Viviana Fiorentino considers the concepts of ius sanguinis\, ius soli\, and ius culturae\, and the legal distinctions surrounding the immigration process in her essay\, ‘Citizenship’. Alanna Offield’s ‘A Crow Story’ speaks on belonging and ‘flying  between worlds’ from New Mexico and the US/Mexico border to Belfast. The issue also includes a short story from Pallavi Padma-Uday as well as a review\, by Landa Wo\, of Japa Fire: An Anthology of Poems on African and African Diasporic Migration. \n 
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/poetry-ireland-launch-trumpet-14-edited-by-nandi-jola/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Paul Waters - Murder in Moonlit Square Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us at No Alibis Bookstore for the launch of Paul Waters’ new book Murder in Moonlit Square\, published by Bedford Square Publishers. \nBook your FREE ticket here on TicketSource \nWhen semi-retired Irish nun Sister Agatha Murphy meets Avtar Mehta round the back of his historic Delhi hotel\, they form an instant bond over a sneaky smoke and good gossip. Then a street robbery outside the hotel\, a dead body inside it\, and the disappearance of a pilgrim guest bring the local police to the hotel\, determined to close their cases quickly\, and with them the Delhi Haveli Hotel. \nSister Agatha and Avtar must race to stay one step ahead of the police\, the Indian secret service and a hidden killer – as well as keeping their sense of humour through a terrorism scare in the run up to Christmas on the colourful streets of old Delhi.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/paul-waters-murder-in-moonlit-square/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH - KALIE REID - THE SACRED SPACE BETWEEN
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Book Launch to celebrate the publication of The Sacred Space Between. \n \nBook your FREE space here \n​About the Book.\nA devout iconographer must paint an exiled saint in this sumptuous gothic romantasy full of slow-burn tension and windswept moors\, for fans of DIVINE RIVALS and A STUDY IN DROWNING ‘Nothing less than blasphemy brought you to me\,’ Jude told her. Maeve trembled. He was an open flame. \nAny closer\, and she’d burn. Jude is a saint with dangerous magic – exiled by the Abbey to live out his days alone in a decaying estate on the moors – until gifted iconographer Maeve is sent to paint his icon. Suspecting she’s a spy for her beloved Abbey\, Jude makes it his mission to get rid of Maeve as soon as possible. \nThat is\, until he discovers that Maeve holds the same tainted magic as he does\, and she may be the key to destroying the Abbey’s power… But this institution has eyes everywhere\, and the only thing the Abbey loves more than a saint is a martyr.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-launch-kalie-reid-the-sacred-space-between/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Neil Shawcross 20th Anniversary Calendar Signing
DESCRIPTION:  \nWe will be having the great Neil Shawcross come in to sign our 2026 No Alibis x Neil Shawcross calendars on Saturday 29th November\, and it will be extra special as this will be the 20th Anniversary of our calendars!\nHe will be signing calendars from 3-5pm.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/neil-shawcross-20th-anniversary-calendar-signing/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Marcus Patton - Out of the Frying Pan - Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book launch with Marcus Patton to celebrate the publication of\nOut Of The Frying Pan – From Chaos to Contempt\n \nSurely the world can’t be serious? \nFrom events in the Ukraine\, to the election of Donald Trump…Again\, to chaos in the Middle East\, Global Warming and a host of other calamities\, Marcus Patton casts his comic graphic eye over recent international and local events. \nHere is a panorama of the world at the end of 2025\, with answers at the back of the book.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/marcus-patton-out-of-the-frying-pan-book-launch/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:In Conversation with Steve Pyke - Scribendi: Portraits of Irish Writers
DESCRIPTION:Join us at No Alibis for an event with Steve Pyke\, who will be in conversation with Wendy Erskine\, Glenn Patterson and Stephen Sexton about his book Scribendi: Portraits of Irish Writers. Book your free ticket on Ticketsource here! \nFeaturing 100 captivating portraits of many of Ireland’s greatest contemporary writers\, alongside conversations with each on their writing life\, Scribendi is a landmark book of portraits of Irish writers by internationally renowned photographer Steve Pyke. ‘I come from the English Midlands\, but I became a photographer in Ireland. I made my first portraits in Dublin in the early 1980s. \nIt was immediately apparent to me then how important Irish writers are to their country\, in a way I never saw in England or elsewhere. One of my earliest portrait sessions was in 1983\, with the writer Neil Jordan in my first studio in London. I’ve gone on for the subsequent forty years photographing the Irish writers whose books have excited me. Early sitters include Seamus Heaney\, Edna O’Brien and John McGahern. \nMore recent trips have led me to the next generation\, such writers as Anne Enright\, Kevin Barry and Louise Kennedy. I photographed these people because I had read their books and admired and wanted to meet them\, and also to make a record for posterity. Their faces can bring to others something of the feeling and way of thinking behind their words.’ Steve Pyke is one of the world’s most renowned portrait photographers\, has published 10 books to date\, including the critically acclaimed novel I Could Read the Sky with Timothy O’Grady\, and has worked among many other roles\, as resident portrait photographer for The New Yorker from 2004-2014.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/in-conversation-with-steve-pyke-scribendi-portraits-of-irish-writers/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Oliver Jeffers - I'm Very Busy Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a signing with Oliver Jeffers for his new book I’m Very Busy: A (Nearly Forgotten) Birthday Book. \nGet your FREE ticket here! \nA poignant – and laugh-out-loud funny – story about our busy lives and how we can fix our mistakes to show our friends how much we care. It’s Bridget’s birthday\, and she thinks it would be fun to spend the day with friends. But Royal has places to go\, Rodney has to see a man about a dog\, Regis has to wash his hair and Pearl has a list of items she needs to cross off as quickly as she can. \nBridget’s friends are all too busy to hang out! Will Bridget have to spend her birthday all alone? In a story that shows how friends are more important than the busy-ness of a day\, Oliver Jeffers’s bold and brilliant art pairs with a powerful story that makes readers realise what truly matters.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/oliver-jeffers-im-very-busy-book-signing/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Tim MacGabhann - Found in a Context of Destruction
DESCRIPTION:Join us at No Alibis for the launch of Tim MacGabhann’s new poetry collection from Banshee Press ‘Found in a Context of Destruction’\, reading with Jessica Traynor. \n \nBook your free place here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/no-alibis-bookstore-ltd/t-aavkzev \nNoted novelist and essayist Tim MacGabhann’s debut collection demonstrates a rare confidence and coherence. These formally assured and blackly funny poems chart the course of addiction and recovery\, contemplating the injuries a body and mind can sustain\, and what joys we find in these darker spaces in the shape of friendship\, music\, and community. The spare\, stark poems of love and survival in Found in a Context of Destruction open windows on rarely-seen vistas\, bringing us on a delirious but vividly captured journey from Ireland to Mexico.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-launch-tim-macgabhann-found-in-a-context-of-destruction/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Sinéad Morrissey - Among Communists
DESCRIPTION:Join us to launch the long-awaited memoir from TS Eliot award-winning Belfast poet\, Sinéad Morrissey\, who will be in conversation with Scott McKendry. Set against the backdrop of a vanished culture of Belfast Communism – its endless meetings thick with cigarette smoke\, its protests\, marches\, sports days\, holidays\, discos and jumble sales – ‘Among Communists’ tells a history of the Northern Irish conflict unlike any other while simultaneously charting a young writer’s journey into writing poetry. \nBook your free place here: https://crescentarts.org/events/among-communists-by-sinead-morrissey-with-scott-mckendry \nNo Alibis Special Edition available for pre-order here: https://noalibis.com/product/among-communists/
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-launch-sinead-morrissey-among-communists/
LOCATION:Crescent Arts Centre\, 2-4 University Rd Belfast BT7 1NH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Liz Nugent - The Truth About Ruby Cooper
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with Liz Nugent to celebrate the launch of her new novel\, The Truth About Ruby Cooper\, published by Penguin Books. \n*** BOOK YOUR FREE TICKET HERE *** \nYou can order a copy of the book on our website here! \nAbout the book: \nRuby Cooper and her sister\, Erin\, live an idyllic life in their close-knit church community in Boston. \nBut when Ruby is sixteen\, she is involved in an incident that causes her family’s world to implode. Across decades\, the fallout leaves a wake of destruction behind Ruby in Dublin and Erin in Boston. Not that Ruby wants to think about the past. \nBut it can’t stay a secret forever. \n 
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-launch-liz-nugent-the-truth-about-ruby-cooper/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:It Brought A Smile To Your Ear - Downtown Radio 50 Years On
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US FOR A BOOK LAUNCH\n \nIT BROUGHT A SMILE TO YOUR EAR – DOWNTOWN RADIO 50 YEARS ON.\n  \nPLEASE BOOK YOUR FREE PLACE HERE \nPURCHASE A COPY OF THE BOOK HERE \n50 YEARS AGO ON 16 MARCH 1976 DOWNTOWN RADIO HIT THE AIRWAVES OF NORTHERN IRELAND. IT PROVED TO BE A WATERSHED MOMENT DROP KICKING RADIO HERE TOWARDS THE 21ST CENTURY AND BEYOND.\nIT’S POTENT MIX OF MUSIC\, NEWS AND INFORMATION WAS AN INSTANT HIT WITH LOCAL AUDIENCES WHO RELISHED HEARING CHEERFUL LOCAL VOICES ON A RADIO STATION BASED IN THE HEART OF THEIR COMMUNITY.\nTHE FIRST PRESENTER TO GREET AN AUDIENCE EAGER FOR SOMETHING NEW WAS JOHN PAUL. THEN THERE WAS HENDI\, BIG T AND EVERYONE’S FAVOURITE AUNTIE CANDY DEVINE WHO HAD LONG SINCE FORESAKEN BRISBANE FOR EAST BELFAST.\nOTHERS LIKE IVAN MARTIN & RICHARD YOUNG\, LYNDA-JAYNE\, JOHN DALY\, RONAN KELLY\, JOHNNY HERO AND FRANK MITCHELL FOLLOWED AND QUICKLY BECAME FIRM FAVOURITES WITH LOCAL LISTENERS.\nTHIS BOOK ‘IT BROUGHT A SMILE TO YOUR EAR’ IS THE STORY OF DOWNTOWN RADIO. HOW DID IT COME TO EXIST. \nWHO WERE THE PEOPLE BEHIND IT. \nHOW DID THEY GET THE LICENCE TO BRING INDEPENDENT LOCAL RADIO TO NORTHERN IRELAND.\nIT ALSO TAKES READERS BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE STATION’S NEWTOWNARDS HQ AND GETS UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL TO SOME OF THE BROADCASTERS WHO MADE DOWNTOWN THE RUNAWAY SUCCESS IT BECAME.\nTHERE IS NO DOUBT THE STATION HOLDS A SPECIAL PLACE IN THE HEARTS OF MANY RADIO FANS HERE . \nTHIS BOOK COMES OUT AS THE STATION NOT ONLY CELEBRATES IT’S 50TH BIRTHDAY BUT ALSO MOVES TO A NEW HOME IN CENTRAL BELFAST. \n“ ONLY IN IRELAND WOULD YOU FIND A RADIO STATION SITUATED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE COUNTRY CALLED DOWNTOWN RADIO”.    BILLY CONNOLLY\nBUT THAT WAS DOWNTOWN SURPRISING PEOPLE FROM DAY ONE AND STILL MAKING THEM SMILE HALF A CENTURY LATER!.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/it-brought-a-smile-to-your-ear-downtown-radio-50-years-on/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Jan Carson - Few and Far Between
DESCRIPTION:Join us at The Crescent Arts Centre for the launch of Jan Carson’s new novel ‘Few and Far Between’\, in conversation with Garrett Carr. \nIt’s summer 2017 and the last few residents of the Lough Neagh Archipelago are facing imminent eviction. The flood planned to combat a devastating algae outbreak will submerge their homes\, forcing them back to the Mainland for the first time in fifty years. Robert-John and Marion Connolly came to the islands as children in the 1970s\, following their mercurial father\, an anthropologist studying the unique society that had developed there. \nFor many\, the Neagh Archipelago represented a utopia\, a chance to be free of the prejudices and history of Troubles era Northern Ireland. But perhaps this utopia wasn’t all that it seemed. Marion and Robert-John have grown accustomed to their haunted existence on the Ark\, monitoring the mysterious Far Side\, where ghostly figures linger and the land swallows secrets whole. \nHow will they cope with a new life on the Mainland? Is it possible to leave the past behind? And will the Ark ever let them go… \nBook your free place here: https://crescentarts.org/events/few-and-far-between-by-jan-carson \nPreorder your copy of the No Alibis Special Edition here: https://noalibis.com/product/few-and-far-between/ \n 
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-launch-jan-carson-few-and-far-between/
LOCATION:Crescent Arts Centre\, 2-4 University Rd Belfast BT7 1NH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Everything that is Beautiful - Louise Nealon
DESCRIPTION:Everything that is Beautiful\nby Louise Nealon\nBook Launch\n \nWednesday 08 April 2026\nTime 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM\nPrice Free Tickets Here \nJoin us at The Crescent for the launch of Louise Nealon’s new novel Everything that is Beautiful. \nFor Niamh Ryan\, the Foleys are family. Her childhood flew by on their farm\, playing with her best friend Peter and his sister Kate – all the while being doted on by their mother Helen and coached by their father Liam\, a legendary former hurling player. \nNow\, following a distressing series of events\, the family ties are strained. Niamh receives drunken phone calls and messages from Peter who can’t understand what derailed their burgeoning relationship three years ago. Meanwhile\, Helen Foley is trying her best to escape her life by checking into guesthouses under the names of women she went to school with. In her life in Belfast\, Kate is attempting to hold down a job and a relationship while carrying the weight of the family’s secrets\, and feeling like she is the one to blame. \nAs a family wedding looms\, and the women find themselves face to face\, the knotty love that still binds Niamh\, Helen and Kate might just bring them back together again. \nTold through the perspectives of three very different women\, Everything That Is Beautiful unfolds the story of one complicated family in startlingly honest prose. By turns funny and deeply moving\, this is an unforgettable story of love and family\, heartbreak and hope – and who we might become after we pick up the pieces. \nThe event will be introduced by Olivia Fitzsimons\, and No Alibis will be selling copies of the book. \nLouise Nealon is a writer from County Kildare\, Ireland. Her debut novel Snowflake won Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and was the One Dublin One Book choice for 2024. It has been translated into over a dozen languages. Everything that is Beautiful is her second novel.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/everything-that-is-beautiful-by-louise-nealon/
LOCATION:Crescent Arts Centre\, 2-4 University Rd Belfast BT7 1NH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Event: Natalie Bennett - Change Everything
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the bookshop for an evening with Green Party peer Natalie Bennett to celebrate the new edition of her book\, Change Everything\, published by Wilton Square Books. \n***BOOK YOUR FREE TICKET HERE*** \nAbout the book: \nWe are living in a social\, political\, economic and environmental emergency. The status quo is profoundly unstable; change is inevitable. Now is the time to get together to build a far healthier and more balanced world.The decades-old political orthodoxy – that greed is good\, inequality doesn’t matter and we can keep treating the planet as a mine and a dumping ground – has been a recipe for disaster. Our world needs a new vision\, the Green vision. From Universal Basic Income to free education\, from less stuff but more life\, to genuine democratic opportunities for all\, Natalie Bennett brings together a holistic\, hopeful and practical vision for the future.\nThe foundations of Change Everything are conversations with many thousands of people. We need to engage millions to bring together the imagination\, talents and energy of all in order to build and repair our societies. Then a positive future is within our reach. \n‘Essential reading’ Zack Polanski‘A full-throated battle-song… We are ready for another world\, we are ready to change everything and this wonderful book shows us exactly how we are going to do that’ Caroline Lucas\n‘Every so often\, a book comes along that articulates exactly what our country needs. This is one. Essential reading’ Zack Polanski\n‘If charm and enthusiasm were enough to win over more reluctant citizens to a programme of radical change\, Natalie Bennett would be a strong contender for the challenge. Change Everything is essentially a manifesto – delivered with great gusto – of what a green perspective would look like across a wide array of subjects’ Ros Coward\, The Ecologist\n‘The real joy of this book is to be found in the breadth of Baroness Bennett’s reading and experiences. It’s a well-grounded text\, a hallmark of a committed radical’ Liam Byrne\, Politics Home
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-event-natalie-bennett-change-everything/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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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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