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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Jan Carson - Few and Far Between
DESCRIPTION:Join us at The Crescent Arts Centre for the launch of Jan Carson’s new novel ‘Few and Far Between’\, in conversation with Garrett Carr. \nIt’s summer 2017 and the last few residents of the Lough Neagh Archipelago are facing imminent eviction. The flood planned to combat a devastating algae outbreak will submerge their homes\, forcing them back to the Mainland for the first time in fifty years. Robert-John and Marion Connolly came to the islands as children in the 1970s\, following their mercurial father\, an anthropologist studying the unique society that had developed there. \nFor many\, the Neagh Archipelago represented a utopia\, a chance to be free of the prejudices and history of Troubles era Northern Ireland. But perhaps this utopia wasn’t all that it seemed. Marion and Robert-John have grown accustomed to their haunted existence on the Ark\, monitoring the mysterious Far Side\, where ghostly figures linger and the land swallows secrets whole. \nHow will they cope with a new life on the Mainland? Is it possible to leave the past behind? And will the Ark ever let them go… \nBook your free place here: https://crescentarts.org/events/few-and-far-between-by-jan-carson \nPreorder your copy of the No Alibis Special Edition here: https://noalibis.com/product/few-and-far-between/ \n 
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-launch-jan-carson-few-and-far-between/
LOCATION:Crescent Arts Centre\, 2-4 University Rd Belfast BT7 1NH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Everything that is Beautiful - Louise Nealon
DESCRIPTION:Everything that is Beautiful\nby Louise Nealon\nBook Launch\n \nWednesday 08 April 2026\nTime 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM\nPrice Free Tickets Here \nJoin us at The Crescent for the launch of Louise Nealon’s new novel Everything that is Beautiful. \nFor Niamh Ryan\, the Foleys are family. Her childhood flew by on their farm\, playing with her best friend Peter and his sister Kate – all the while being doted on by their mother Helen and coached by their father Liam\, a legendary former hurling player. \nNow\, following a distressing series of events\, the family ties are strained. Niamh receives drunken phone calls and messages from Peter who can’t understand what derailed their burgeoning relationship three years ago. Meanwhile\, Helen Foley is trying her best to escape her life by checking into guesthouses under the names of women she went to school with. In her life in Belfast\, Kate is attempting to hold down a job and a relationship while carrying the weight of the family’s secrets\, and feeling like she is the one to blame. \nAs a family wedding looms\, and the women find themselves face to face\, the knotty love that still binds Niamh\, Helen and Kate might just bring them back together again. \nTold through the perspectives of three very different women\, Everything That Is Beautiful unfolds the story of one complicated family in startlingly honest prose. By turns funny and deeply moving\, this is an unforgettable story of love and family\, heartbreak and hope – and who we might become after we pick up the pieces. \nThe event will be introduced by Olivia Fitzsimons\, and No Alibis will be selling copies of the book. \nLouise Nealon is a writer from County Kildare\, Ireland. Her debut novel Snowflake won Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and was the One Dublin One Book choice for 2024. It has been translated into over a dozen languages. Everything that is Beautiful is her second novel.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/everything-that-is-beautiful-by-louise-nealon/
LOCATION:Crescent Arts Centre\, 2-4 University Rd Belfast BT7 1NH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Event: Natalie Bennett - Change Everything
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the bookshop for an evening with Green Party peer Natalie Bennett to celebrate the new edition of her book\, Change Everything\, published by Wilton Square Books. \n***BOOK YOUR FREE TICKET HERE*** \nAbout the book: \nWe are living in a social\, political\, economic and environmental emergency. The status quo is profoundly unstable; change is inevitable. Now is the time to get together to build a far healthier and more balanced world.The decades-old political orthodoxy – that greed is good\, inequality doesn’t matter and we can keep treating the planet as a mine and a dumping ground – has been a recipe for disaster. Our world needs a new vision\, the Green vision. From Universal Basic Income to free education\, from less stuff but more life\, to genuine democratic opportunities for all\, Natalie Bennett brings together a holistic\, hopeful and practical vision for the future.\nThe foundations of Change Everything are conversations with many thousands of people. We need to engage millions to bring together the imagination\, talents and energy of all in order to build and repair our societies. Then a positive future is within our reach. \n‘Essential reading’ Zack Polanski‘A full-throated battle-song… We are ready for another world\, we are ready to change everything and this wonderful book shows us exactly how we are going to do that’ Caroline Lucas\n‘Every so often\, a book comes along that articulates exactly what our country needs. This is one. Essential reading’ Zack Polanski\n‘If charm and enthusiasm were enough to win over more reluctant citizens to a programme of radical change\, Natalie Bennett would be a strong contender for the challenge. Change Everything is essentially a manifesto – delivered with great gusto – of what a green perspective would look like across a wide array of subjects’ Ros Coward\, The Ecologist\n‘The real joy of this book is to be found in the breadth of Baroness Bennett’s reading and experiences. It’s a well-grounded text\, a hallmark of a committed radical’ Liam Byrne\, Politics Home
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-event-natalie-bennett-change-everything/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Niamh Mac Cabe - Four Night Seas
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the bookshop for an evening to celebrate the launch of Niamh Mac Cabe’s collection of short stories\, Four Night Seas\, published by Lilliput Press. \n***BOOK YOUR FREE TICKET HERE*** \nSet across liminal landscapes\, Four Night Seas is a collection of stories from award-winning author Niamh Mac Cabe feature characters navigating emotional or existential thresholds – grieving\, seeking meaning or reconciling with the past. \nWhether a reclusive sculptor haunted by guilt\, a lost child drawing maps in the sand\, or a greyhound silently shadowing a man to a mountain lake\, Mac Cabe’s lyrical prose and ingenious narrative structures evoke an eerie\, tender intimacy. \nRich and atmospheric\, exploring themes of memory\, solitude\, loss\, and the mysterious rhythms of nature and human connection\, this collection blurs the line between the internal and external world\, and invites us into spaces of beauty\, melancholy and subtle transformation.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/book-launch-niamh-mac-cabe-four-night-seas/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Paul Charles - Hi Love\, You Just Dropped Your Glove: A McCusker Mystery
DESCRIPTION:Reserve your free space here \n\nJoin us for a Book Launch with Paul Charles to celebrate the publication of the third McCusker Mystery \nThomas Barry\, Lefty Kelly\, and Brendy McCusker were all teenage boys who were roaming the streets of Portrush\, Country Antrim in Northern Ireland in 1976 when Thomas Barry quite literally bumped into Isabella Scott\, and he uttered the words of the title. \nIn July 2019 the same Thomas Barry’s remains were discovered at the foot of the Pilgrim’s Steps in the Portrush Harbour.  McCusker and DI Lily O’Carroll are conscripted from the PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) in Belfast to help the already stretched local police force work on the case. They discover McCusker’s childhood friends Barry and Isabella Scott had married and then… well then everything became very complicated relationships wise involving Isabella’s sister\, Colette\, lawyers\, accountants and showband singers. Thomas had become an ultra-successful property developer\, sometimes in partnership with the Buckley Brothers\, at least one of whom doesn’t mind the\ncowboy approach to work.\nSet against the backdrop of the (actual) UK Golf Open taking place in a small seaside town\, where absolutely everyone has an opinion\, and their opinions they are keen to share.\nPaul Charles began his career in music at fifteen\, managing his first band\, The Blues by Five\, in his hometown of Magherafelt\, Northern Ireland. \nCharles co-founded the Asgard Agency with Paul Fenn and has since represented major artists including Tom Waits\, The Kinks\, Van Morrison\, Elvis Costello\, Robert Plant and Rory Gallagher. He has also programmed the Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury Festival for 25 years. A lifelong writer\, Charles published his first Christy Kennedy mystery in 1997. His eleventh novel\, Departing Shadows\, appeared in 2019.
URL:https://noalibis.com/event/paul-charles-hi-love-you-just-dropped-your-glove-a-mccusker-mystery/
LOCATION:No Alibis Bookstore\, 83 Botanic Avenue\, Belfast\, BT7 1JL\, United Kingdom
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