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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: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: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: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: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: Máiría Cahill - Rough Beast
DESCRIPTION:Máiría Cahill grew up steeped in the traditions of Irish republicanism and the shadowy world of the IRA: her great-uncle Joe was one of the main founders of the Provisional IRA and her grandfather was Gerry Adams’s mentor in the republican movement. From an early age she seemed destined for a glittering career within the increasingly successful political machine of Sinn Fein\, which was then enjoying the aftermath of the Good Friday Agreement. She worked in a radio station alongside leading republicans; the Sinn Fein offices were her second home. \nShe knew Gerry Adams and other senior republicans as family friends. But at the age of 16\, she was sexually abused by a prominent Belfast IRA man. When she confided in some friends she trusted about the abuse\, one of them told the IRA without Máiría’s knowledge. \nA year later the organisation came calling\, and forced her to take part in an inept and grotesquely insensitive internal investigation. She was subjected to round after round of interrogations by senior IRA men and women\, usually in a network of safe houses around Belfast. Doubt was cast on her account of what had been done to her. \nHer assailant was allowed to confront and denounce her. Eventually her rapist was permitted to vanish from Belfast while Sinn Fein and the IRA professed bafflement about his whereabouts. Gerry Adams emerges chillingly from Cahill’s meticulous account of her ordeal\, a mixture of smugly avuncular concern and denial. \nRough Beast is Máiría Cahill’s harrowing story of her life and of what she went through at the hands of what is now Ireland’s largest and richest party. That story is told here for the first time in full detail and with unsparing honesty. It is a story of unimaginable trauma and political corruption. \nIt brings to life a world of paramilitary secrecy and parallel laws\, but above all it is the story of one young woman’s defiance of the power wielded by ex-gunmen inspiring fear and silence\, and their influence over elected politicians. \nPre-Order your SIGNED copy here \nReserve your FREE space here
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-launch-mairia-cahill-rough-beast/
LOCATION:Crescent Arts Centre\, 2-4 University Rd Belfast BT7 1NH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:An Evening With Carl Frampton
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a truly amazing event with Carl Frampton in the Europa Hotel\, Belfast on  \nSaturday 30th September at 7pm. \nTicket Price £22.50 includes a SIGNED copy of Carl’s AutobiographyBelfast’s Carl ‘The Jackal’ Frampton MBE is no ordinary boxer. One of only three fighters from the British Isles to be named the Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year\, he has headlined multiple sell-out world championship bouts on both sides of the Atlantic\, winning multiple world titles in the process. His dedicated army of fans have traversed the globe to be ringside throughout it all.\nBut Frampton’s popularity far exceeds the traditional adulation for a sporting icon; he is regarded as a symbol of hope and unity by both sides of the sectarian divide in Northern Ireland.\nIn this captivating autobiography\, Frampton reveals the most personal aspects of being a fighter; of fears and doubts\, of exhilaration and devastation\, of friendship and animosity. He also recounts for the first time his high-profile\, acrimonious split with Barry McGuigan\, in devastating and revealing detail.\nFrampton speaks openly and passionately\, not only about boxing\, but about his country\, how far it has come and the problems it faces. This is a uniquely intimate account of a true modern-day sporting great and a local hero like no other.The ticket price includes a copy of the fearless\, fast-paced autobiography of World Title winning boxer and Belfast hero Carl Frampton\, with a foreword by Patrick Kielty.\n\n\nEvent Details\nDoors Open at 6:00PM\nFrom 7:00PM to 9:00PM \nBook your ticket here.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/an-evening-with-carl-frampton/
LOCATION:Europa Hotel\, Great Victoria St\, Belfast\, Belfast\, Northern Ireland\, BT2 7AP
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