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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: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: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: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 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: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: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: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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