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. We Play Here is a collection of four […]
Join us for an evening with Jo Baker to celebrate the launch of her new novel, The Midnight News. About 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 […]
Join us for an evening with Shirley-Anne McMillan to celebrate the launch of Grapefruit Moon. About Grapefruit Moon: Wealthy, 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 […]
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. About Falling Animals: On 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 […]
Join us to celebrate the launch of Jennifer O'Leary's new book, The Padre, published by Merrion Press. About the book: This 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. For […]
Join us for a Book Signing with Feargal Cochrane in No Alibis Bookstore. A 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 […]
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 […]
Join us to celebrate the launch of Rachel Connolly's debut novel, Lazy City, in conversation with Nicole Flattery. About Lazy City: Following 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 […]
John Connolly will be joining us in No Alibis Bookstore to sign copies of his latest novel, The Land Of Lost Things. Phoebe, 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 […]