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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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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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