BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//No Alibis Bookstore - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://noalibis.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for No Alibis Bookstore
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Europe/London
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20240331T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20241027T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20250330T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20251026T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20260329T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20261025T010000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251002T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251002T193000
DTSTAMP:20260526T005035
CREATED:20250623T101849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250729T084108Z
UID:9126-1759428000-1759433400@noalibis.com
SUMMARY:Commedia Mortale - Wayne Holloway in conversation with Wendy Erskine and Adrian Duncan: The unreliable author; lived experience and spinning a yarn.
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the bookshop for an event with\nWayne Holloway in conversation with Wendy Erskine Adrian Duncan:\nThe unreliable author; lived experience and spinning a yarn.\n***BOOK YOUR FREE TICKET HERE*** \nLiguria\, Italy. In a mountain village sits an old farmhouse that stores the memories of those who have lived there and suffers the tales of the visitors who come and go. The house weaves its magic on all who encounter it.New owners move in and over time become entangled with a parade of oddball characters. From pagan ritual to the antics of modern village life\, the clash between outsiders and locals\, Commedia Mortale seeks to understand what is authentic in both: the tall tales of ageing Second World War Partisans\, the dreams of a chef to travel to parts unknown supported by a Greek chorus of drunks\, a talking parrot\, and asylum-seeking footballers with their own dreams\, and miraculously a visit to the village by Anthony Bourdain himself.\nParsed through the eyes of a film maker\, the ultimate outsider\, Commedia Mortale summons dreams of kinship and nightmares of enmity. Ranging across philosophy\, food\, history\, love\, loss and landscape\, Holloway conjures up a unique portrait of a place\, the fables of its past and the dilemma of how to live now. \n‘“Idiosyncratic” doesn’t begin to get near him.’– Guardian\n‘A Trojan horse of a novel. The conversational\, high-energy prose causes one to open the gates and then all hell breaks loose.’– Percival Everett on Our Struggle
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/commedia-mortale-wayne-holloway-in-conversation-with-wendy-erskine/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251010T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251010T213000
DTSTAMP:20260526T005035
CREATED:20250816T160414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250816T201708Z
UID:9218-1760124600-1760131800@noalibis.com
SUMMARY:In Conversation Stephen Walker & Donna Traynor discuss "David Trimble - Peacemaker"
DESCRIPTION:Join author Stephen Walker in conversation with broadcaster Donna Traynor\, as they discuss “Peacemaker” \, the new book on David Trimble at the Europa Hotel in Belfast. \n  \n£15.00 \n(Plus Booking Fee) \nBook Your Tickets Here \nDavid Trimble was one of the most influential figures in modern British and Irish history. A Nobel Laureate\, he negotiated the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 that helped to secure peace in Northern Ireland. In this first biography to chart Trimble’s life and death\, award-winning journalist Stephen Walker vividly details how this shy Belfast academic changed the political landscape of Northern Ireland. \nWith the cooperation of the Trimble family\, Peacemaker offers unparalleled insights into the life of a history maker: the first person to be elected First Minister of Northern Ireland and the last Ulster unionist to hold that title. Using interviews with his widow Lady Trimble and their grown-up children\, the book colourfully charts Trimble’s story from the County Down city of Bangor\, through the divisive world of unionist politics\, to his crowning moment at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo. It is a tale of how the leaders of unionism and nationalism worked together to end decades of violence to compromise and share power \nStephen Walker is an award winning journalist and the author of five books. He worked as a lobby correspondent at Westminster\, an investigative reporter with Spotlight and he is a former BBC Political Correspondent. \nDonna Traynor is one of Ireland’s most recognised and respected broadcasters with a journalistic career spanning more than three decades \nSigned Books available on the night. \nThe Penthouse Suite\nEuropa Hotel\nBelfast\nEvent Details\nStarts at 7:30PM \nLocation\nEuropa Hotel Belfast – Penthouse Suite\, Belfast\, BT2 7AP \n 
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/in-conversation-stephen-walker-donna-traynor-discuss-david-trimble-the-peacemaker/
LOCATION:Europa Hotel\, Great Victoria St\, Belfast\, Belfast\, Northern Ireland\, BT2 7AP
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251021T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251021T193000
DTSTAMP:20260526T005035
CREATED:20250922T140137Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T152709Z
UID:9260-1761069600-1761075000@noalibis.com
SUMMARY:Poetry Launch: Jessica Traynor - New Arcana
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the bookshop for an evening with Jessica Traynor to celebrate the launch of her new poetry collection\, New Arcana\, published by Bloodaxe Books. \n***BOOK YOUR FREE TICKET HERE*** \nJessica Traynor’s New Arcana explores grief\, bad boyfriends and the power of female friendship through readings of the Tarot and Tim Burton movies. Moving from teenage friendship and destructive relationships towards a tangling with the realities of family life\, domesticity\, and desire\, this highly inventive collection builds into a heartbroken letter to a dear friend (personified in the poems as ‘lydia deetz’) who died by suicide. Interwoven with numbered poems from a newly imagined Major Arcana\, New Arcana celebrates both the holding on\, and the letting go. \nNew Arcana is Jessica Traynor’s fourth collection\, following Liffey Swim (2014) and The Quick (2019) from Dedalus and Pit Lullabies (2022) from Bloodaxe.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/poetry-launch-jessica-trayor-new-arcana/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251025T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251025T183000
DTSTAMP:20260526T005035
CREATED:20250922T133532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T152737Z
UID:9266-1761413400-1761417000@noalibis.com
SUMMARY:Launch & In Conversation Event: The Cloud Kingdom by Máire Zepf & Andrew Whitson
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the bookshop for an evening with Máire Zepf and Andrew Whitson to celebrate the launch of their new children’s picture book\, Cloud Kingdom\, published by Little Island. \n***BOOK YOUR FREE TICKET HERE*** \n \nAbout Cloud Kingdom: \nAn archipelago of interconnecting stories and fables filled with the fantastical and a love of the craft of storytelling. \nWhen Nancy’s cat Pangur is stolen by the Faery people\, she finds herself striking a deal like no other: she is now the one-and-only storyteller for the Faery Kingdom. So starts Máire Zepf’s enchanting story collection\, reminiscent of fairytales and fables of past and present\, but entirely new. \nMáire Zepf is a multi-award-winning children’s author. Her books have been adapted for television and appear in ten languages worldwide. Máire was chosen as the first Children’s Writing Fellow for Northern Ireland in 2017. Andrew Whitson is an award-winning artist\, author and publisher from Belfast native. He has illustrated over thirty books.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/launch-cloud-kingdom-by-maire-zepf/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251029T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251029T193000
DTSTAMP:20260526T005035
CREATED:20250910T084347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T084347Z
UID:9249-1761760800-1761766200@noalibis.com
SUMMARY:Saints - Tim MacGabhann in conversation with Wendy Erskine
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the bookshop for an evening with Tim MacGabhann to celebrate the launch of his debut short story collection\, Saints\, published by Scratch Books. \nTim will be in conversation with Wendy Erskine. \n***BOOK YOUR FREE TICKET HERE*** \n \nAbout Saints: \nThe debut collection of short stories from celebrated crime writer Tim MacGabhann. \nNine breathtaking\, gripping and oddly sublime tales of narcos\, cops and addicts in modern-day Mexico. Gritty hard-boiled tales shot through with the hallowed light of the miraculous\, written in MacGabhann’s pyrotechnic exhilarating prose. A constellation of rich\, vivacious stories of sewer diving\, ghosts\, a falling satellite and vengeful pigs. \n‘The stories in Saints are wise\, sad and electric\, gentle and attentive in their depiction of even the most jagged\, destructive impulses of the human heart.’ Colin Barrett \n‘This handful of offbeat lives\, their vivid Mexican setting\, their human light and shade\, are so well rendered they offer a sense of special access to other realities. As in life\, each story is a wormhole to the next\, a connectivity that not only makes a novel of this collection but inflates its reading to four dimensions\, with all the discovery that comes from entering a new milieu in person. For me this book does the heavy lifting of literature: more than a good read – it’s a parallel life.’ D.B.C. Pierre \n‘Tim MacGabhann works from an imaginative world that does not rest. His living characters open up their hearts to him\, and he reports back to us – a work of sublime devotion to a place and a moment that has been rendered in perfect detail. I go back to these stories long after reading them\, and wonder how those people are. It’s a sweet and violent magic\, and I remain gladly under its spell.’ Ben Pester \nAbout the author: \nTim MacGabhann is an Irish writer who divides his time between the UK and Mexico City. His first two novels\, Call Him Mine and How to Be Nowhere\, were published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson. Other fiction\, non-fiction and poetry has also appeared in The Stinging Fly\, The Dublin Review\, The Tangerine\, Magma\, Poetry Ireland Review\, and The Rialto\, among others.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/saints-tim-macgabhann-in-conversation-with-wendy-erskine/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251030T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251030T193000
DTSTAMP:20260526T005035
CREATED:20250916T085345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T115003Z
UID:9263-1761847200-1761852600@noalibis.com
SUMMARY:Poetry Ireland launch: Trumpet 14 edited by Nandi Jola
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in the bookshop for an evening to celebrate the launch of Trumpet 14\, published by Poetry Ireland. Trumpet is a bite sized literary pamphlet of reviews\, opinions and essays on poetry and the arts. This issue of Trumpet is guest edited by Nandi Jola. \n***BOOK YOUR FREE TICKET HERE*** \nTrumpet 14 \nTrumpet 14\, edited by Nandi Jola\, is now available for pre-order purchase online. It features poetry from Shelley Tracey\, Mari Maxwell\, Sello Huma\, and Amy Abdullah Barry\, among others\, as well as striking artwork  from Anfaal Al-Mughalles.\nTrumpet offers an alternative commentary on the poetry and literary scenes\, including both mainstream and marginalised voices. Nandi Jola’s issue focuses on themes of migration\, memory\, and breath/breathlessness. From the editor: ‘Breath has that lingering sense of travelling somewhere\, of being inhaled by something or someone else\, and by unravelling the connections of breath comes topics of seeking refuge\, drowning\, injustice\, citizenship\, and forced migration.’\nThese themes are explored in essays and short stories as well as poetry. Viviana Fiorentino considers the concepts of ius sanguinis\, ius soli\, and ius culturae\, and the legal distinctions surrounding the immigration process in her essay\, ‘Citizenship’. Alanna Offield’s ‘A Crow Story’ speaks on belonging and ‘flying  between worlds’ from New Mexico and the US/Mexico border to Belfast. The issue also includes a short story from Pallavi Padma-Uday as well as a review\, by Landa Wo\, of Japa Fire: An Anthology of Poems on African and African Diasporic Migration. \n 
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/poetry-ireland-launch-trumpet-14-edited-by-nandi-jola/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR