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SUMMARY:Two Summers - Glenn Patterson - Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \nJoin us for a Book Launch with Glenn Patterson on Thursday 21st September in No Alibis Bookstore \nA pair of novellas\, set over two pivotal summers in the lives of two young men from Belfast\, recall the constraints of the place where they were born and the times in which they are living. Capturing the innocence of adolescent boys\, their passion\, confusion and yearning\, TWO SUMMERS is for anyone who has ever been young. \nBook your FREE space here \n  \n  \nGlenn’s eleven novels to date are: Burning Your Own (1988)\, a Rooney Prize and Betty Trask first novel prize-winner; Fat Lad(1992); Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain (1995)\, The International (1999); Number 5 (2003)\, That Which Was (2004)\, The Third Party (2007); The Mill For Grinding Old People Young\, the inaugural One City One Book choice for Belfast (2012); The Rest Just Follows (2014); Gull (2016) and Where Are We Now (2020) \nHe has also published two essay collections \, Lapsed Protestant (2006) and Here’s Me Here (2014)\, and the family memoir\, Once upon a Hill: Love in Troubled Times (2009) and Backstop Land (2019) \nShort stories and plays have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4\, and he has also presented television documentaries on literary and cultural subjects. His feature film Good Vibrations (co-written with Colin Carberry) was released in 2013. In 2009 he was awarded a Lannan Literary Fellowship.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/two-summers-glenn-patterson-book-launch/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:BOOK LAUNCH - Richard O'Rawe: Stakeknife's Dirty War
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Book Launch with Richard O’Rawe\n  \n \n  \nIn this sensational exposé of British Intelligence’s top informer in the upper ranks of the IRA\, Richard O’Rawe delivers the most definitive account yet of the Troubles’ most enigmatic\, notorious and sinister figure\, Freddie Scappaticci. \nIn this compelling and extraordinary story of state-sanctioned murder and extreme moral ambiguity in the overriding quest for the protection of ‘national security’\, the truth is truly stranger than fiction. \nBook your FREE space here
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-launch-richard-orawe-stakeknifes-dirty-war/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Event: Thomas Morris - Open Up
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with Thomas Morris to celebrate his new collection of short stories\, Open Up\, in conversation with Michael Magee. \nAbout Open Up: \nThe new collection from a literary star – five achingly tender\, innovative and dazzling stories of (dis)connection. From a child attending his first football match\, buoyed by secret magic\, and a wincingly humane portrait of adolescence\, to the perplexity of grief and loss through the eyes of a seahorse\, Thomas Morris seeks to find grace\, hope and benevolence in the churning tumult of self-discovery. \nPhilosophically acute. Wincingly humane. Strikingly original. This outstanding suite of stories is bursting with a bracing emotional depth. Open Up cracks the heart as it expands the short story form. \nAbout Thomas Morris: \nThomas Morris is a Welsh writer and editor. He was born and raised in Caerphilly and was educated in the Welsh language all through primary and secondary school. He then moved to Ireland where he studied English and Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. He still lives in Dublin. \nMorris edited the short story anthology Dubliners 100 in 2014. He is also an editor of The Stinging Fly magazine. His first book\, the short story collection We Don’t Know What We’re Doing (2015) received critical acclaim and several awards. \nIn 2023\, Thomas was named as one of the Best Young British Novelists by Granta magazine. \nBook your free spot here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-event-thomas-morris-open-up-tickets-673645169837?aff=oddtdtcreator
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-event-thomas-morris-open-up/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading - Hard Drive by Paul Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:When his partner suddenly died\, life changed utterly for Paul Stephenson. Hard Drive is the outcome of his revisiting a world he thought he knew\, but which had been upended. In poems that are affectionate\, self-examining\, sometimes funny and often surprised by grief in the oddest corners\, the poet takes us through rooms\, routines\, and rituals of bereavement\, the memory of love\, a shared life and separation. A noted formalist\, with a flair for experiment\, pattern and the use of constraints\, Stephenson has written a remarkable first book\, moving and\, despite everything\, a hopeful record of a gay relationship. It is also a landmark elegy collection. \n  \nReserve your Free Space here \n 
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/poetry-reading-hard-drive-by-paul-stephenson/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Land Of Lost Things - John Connolly - Signing
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n \nJohn Connolly will be joining us in No Alibis Bookstore to sign copies of his latest novel\, \nThe Land Of Lost Things. \nPhoebe\, an eight-year-old girl\, lies comatose following a car accident—a body without a spirit. Ceres\, her mother\, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud the fairy stories Phoebe loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world. But an old house on the hospital grounds\, a property connected to a book written by a vanished author\, is calling to Ceres. Something wants her to enter\, to journey to a land colored by the memories of childhood\, and the folklore beloved of her father—a land of witches and dryads\, giants and mandrakes; a land where old enemies are watching and waiting… \n \nReserve your signed copy here \nhttps://noalibis.com/product/the-land-of-lost-things-special-independent-edn/ \nBook your free space here \nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-land-of-lost-things-john-connolly-signing-tickets-661109675837
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/john-connolly-land-of-lost-things-launch/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Lazy City by Rachel Connolly
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the launch of Rachel Connolly’s debut novel\, Lazy City\, in conversation with Nicole Flattery. \nAbout Lazy City: \nFollowing the death of her best friend\, Erin has to get out of London. Returning home to Belfast\, an au pair job provides a partial refuge from her grief and her volatile relationship with her mother. Erin spends late nights at the bar where her childhood friend Declan works. \nThere Erin meets an American academic who is also looking to get lost. Parallel to this she reconnects with an old flame\, Mikey. This brings its own web of complications. \nWith a startlingly fresh and original voice – jarringly funny\, cranky\, often hungover – Lazy City depicts the strange\, meandering aftermath that follows disaster. \nAbout the author: \nRachel Connolly was born in 1993 in Belfast and now lives in London. She has written for the New York Times\, New York Magazine\, the Guardian and many other publications. She has also featured as a guest to discuss her work on This American Life and several BBC radio programs. \nBook your free ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-lazy-city-by-rachel-connolly-tickets-682093157997?aff=oddtdtcreator
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-launch-lazy-city-by-rachel-connolly/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Jane Cassidy book launch "The Desire Line"
DESCRIPTION:Born and brought up where the Mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea\, Jane Cassidy has been working in the Arts in Northern Ireland since graduating from Queen’s University Belfast in 1980\, first as a singer then broadcaster and now thriller writer. Jane has lived in Belfast since her student days and has set her first published thriller The Desire Line (Poolbeg Press) in Belfast and Islandmagee. Her sleuth Jer McCabe is a freelance tv producer – a creative\, maverick investigator who can’t let the hare sit when it comes to solving a mystery\, especially when the health and happiness of his vulnerable wife Nora is at stake. He and Nora give a new friend Helena a life home from hospital to Islandmagee only to find an empty hillside where she claims her house should be. Is she deluded or the victim of a malevolent force? Jer puts his career on the line to find out. \nThe Desire Line is published by Poolbeg Press. \nTickets are free of charge and can be reserved using the link below \nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jane-cassidy-book-launch-for-the-desire-line-tickets-673666553797?aff=oddtdtcreator
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/jane-cassidy-book-launch-the-desire-line/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Feargal Cochrane - Belfast - The Story of a City and its People.
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Book Signing with Feargal Cochrane in No Alibis Bookstore.\n  \n \nA lively and inviting history of Belfast-exploring the highs and lows of a resilient city Modern Belfast is a beautiful city with a vibrant tradition of radicalism\, industry\, architectural innovation\, and cultural achievement. But the city’s many qualities are all too frequently overlooked\, its image marred by association with the political violence of the Troubles. Feargal Cochrane tells the story of his home city\, revealing a rich and complex history which is not solely defined by these conflicts. \nFrom its emergence as a maritime port to its heyday as a center for the linen industry and crucible of liberal radicalism in the late eighteenth century\, through to the famous shipyards where the Titanic was built\, Belfast has long been a hub of innovation. Cochrane’s book offers a new perspective on this fascinating story\, demonstrating how religion\, culture\, and politics have shaped the way people think\, act\, and vote in the city-and how Belfast’s past continues to shape its present and future. \nGet your tickets on Eventbrite: \nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feargal-cochrane-belfast-the-story-of-a-city-and-its-people-tickets-690777593377?aff=oddtdtcreator
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/feargal-cochrane-belfast-the-story-of-a-city-and-its-people/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Event: Jennifer O'Leary - The Padre
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the launch of Jennifer O’Leary’s new book\, The Padre\, published by Merrion Press. \nAbout the book: \nThis startling new biography from award-winning BBC journalist Jennifer O’Leary tells the incredible true story of the Irish priest who raised millions and acquired explosives for the IRA during the height of the Troubles.  \nFor almost two decades\, Father Patrick Ryan – described by Margaret Thatcher as a ‘very dangerous man’ – evaded intelligence agencies across Europe. The subject of two unsuccessful extradition requests\, he was\, for a time\, one of the most wanted men in Britain. \nAbout the author:  \nJennifer O’Leary works for the BBC as a reporter for BBC NI’s flagship current affairs programme\, Spotlight. In that role she has reported on a wide variety of ground-breaking investigations including money laundering by the powerful mafia group\, the ‘Ndrangheta\, a criminal conspiracy to export horses unfit for human consumption into the food chain\, and the secret intelligence war between the state and the IRA.  \nShe was also part of a Spotlight programme team awarded Royal Television Society recognition for the programme\, ‘A Woman Alone With The IRA’\, which investigated the republican movement’s handling of sexual abuse allegations against a suspected IRA member. In the programme\, Maíria Cahill waived her right to anonymity to tell how the republican movement responded to her allegations. Jennifer is from Cork and began her career in journalism in Dublin\, writing feature articles as a freelancer for The Irish Examiner and The Sunday Business Post. She then moved into broadcast media with Today FM as a weekend hourly news presenter. She worked in the BBC’s Dublin office as a reporter before moving to Belfast\, where she is currently based.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-event-jennifer-oleary-the-padre/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Falling Animals by Sheila Armstrong - Book Event
DESCRIPTION:Join us in No Alibis for an evening to celebrate the launch of Sheila’s acclaimed debut novel\, Falling Animals\, in conversation with Michael Magee. \nAbout Falling Animals: \nOn an isolated beach set against a lonely\, windswept coastline\, a pale figure sits serenely against a sand dune staring out to sea. His hands are folded neatly in his lap\, his ankles are crossed and there is a faint smile on his otherwise lifeless face.  \nMonths later\, after a fruitless investigation\, the nameless stranger is buried in an unmarked grave. But the mystery of his life and death lingers on\, drawing the nearby villagers into its wake. From strandings to shipwrecks\, it is not the first time that strangeness has washed up on their shores.  \nTold through a chorus of voices\, Falling Animals follows the crosshatching threads of lives both true and imagined\, real and surreal\, past and present. Slowly\, over great time and distance\, the story of one man\, alone on a beach\, begins to unravel. Elegiac and atmospheric\, dark and disquieting\, Sheila Armstrong’s debut novel marks her arrival as one of the most uniquely gifted writers at work in literary fiction today. \nAbout the author: \nSheila Armstrong is a writer from the northwest of Ireland. She spent ten years in publishing and now works as a freelance editor. Her first collection of short stories\, How To Gut A Fish\, which was longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize\, was published in 2022. Falling Animals is her debut novel. \nWhile admission is free\, is a ticketed event. To reserve a spot please use the link below. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-sheila-armstrong-tickets-665276910147
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/falling-animals-by-sheila-armstrong-book-event/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Grapefruit Moon by Shirley Anne McMillan
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with Shirley-Anne McMillan to celebrate the launch of Grapefruit Moon. \nAbout Grapefruit Moon: \nWealthy\, popular Charlotte and quiet\, working class Drew couldn’t be more different\, but both face a common enemy at Cooke’s Academy in the form of the Stewards – an elite group of students whose power to manipulate school culture is feared by pupils and teachers alike. Drew\, a newcomer to Cooke’s\, must navigate the strict codes of masculinity laid down by the Stewards in order to have a hope of moving on to university\, while Charlotte dreams of speaking freely about the constraints and abuses of the culture which is propelling her towards a life she’s not sure she wants. Through drag art and poetry the unlikely pair follow a dangerous trajectory which will lead them closer to one another and further away from the paths laid out for them. \nAbout the author: \nShirley-Anne McMillan is a writer from Northern Ireland. She has worked as a teacher\, an Online Writer in Residence for the Irish Writers Centre\, a youth worker with LGBTQ young people and a creative writing tutor. She lives in Co. Down with her family and in her free time she loves playing the guitar and knitting. \nBook your free spot here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-shirley-anne-mcmillan-tickets-673741788827?aff=oddtdtcreator
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-launch-grapefruit-moon-by-shirley-anne-mcmillan/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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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 \nThe 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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