Saturday, May 1, 2010

Meet Dave, He’s A Goliath

A veritable giant in the world of Irish crime fiction, aka Dave Torrans of Belfast’s crime bookshop No Alibis (right, with Stuart Neville and James Ellroy), goes into hospitality overdrive next week. First up, John Connolly, who is currently promoting the new Charlie Parker novel, THE WHISPERERS:
On Monday 3rd May at 7:30 PM, the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival and No Alibis Bookstore will be hosting a screening and talk with author John Connolly in the Oh Yeah Centre in Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter. Tickets, priced £5 each, are now available from CQAF and from No Alibis.
  Nice. Then, on Wednesday, May 5th, Dave and No Alibis hosts Declan Hughes and Brian McGilloway, both of whom will be reading from new works, CITY OF LOST GIRLS and THE RISING, respectively, with the gig kicking off at 7pm …
  And as if that wasn’t a busy enough schedule, Dave will be in Dublin on Thursday, May 6th, to take part in a seminar at the Royal Irish Academy (there’s posh) entitled ‘Writing and the Possible in 2010’, sitting in on a panel that ‘will focus on reading and the ways in which we read literary texts in Ireland in 2010’. The seminar is free, but if you want to get along you’ll need to register here …
  To book tickets for the Connolly and Hughes / McGilloway gigs, contact No Alibis on +44 (0)28 9031 9601.
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Declan Burke has published a number of novels, the most recent of which is ABSOLUTE ZERO COOL. As a journalist and critic, he writes and broadcasts on books and film for a variety of media outlets, including the Irish Times, RTE, the Irish Examiner and the Sunday Independent. He has an unfortunate habit of speaking about himself in the third person. All views expressed here are his own and are very likely to be contrary.