No Alibis Bookstore

Oliver Jeffers - I'm Very Busy Book Signing
2025-12-14 13:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London) | No Alibis Bookstore, 83 Botanic Avenue, Belfast, BT7 1JL, United Kingdom
Join us for a signing with Oliver Jeffers for his new book I’m Very Busy: A (Nearly Forgotten) Birthday Book.
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A 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.
Bridget’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.

Book Launch: Tim MacGabhann - Found in a Context of Destruction
2026-02-19 18:00 - 20:30
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.

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Noted 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.

Book Launch: Liz Nugent - The Truth About Ruby Cooper
2026-03-24 18:00 - 20:00 | No Alibis Bookstore, 83 Botanic Avenue, Belfast, BT7 1JL, United Kingdom
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.
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About the book:
Ruby Cooper and her sister, Erin, live an idyllic life in their close-knit church community in Boston.
But 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.
But it can’t stay a secret forever.
