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@NOALIBISBOOKS

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Independent bookstore on Botanic Avenue, Belfast.

Belfast
Joined June 2010
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
@NOALIBISBOOKS
No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
The first time since late December the Shutters have been pulled back fully....Click and Collect 😀❤️📚
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4 years
We're excited about starting to open our doors to you on Friday (with some added protective measures)! We want to thank all of our customers for their continued support during these times. We can't wait to welcome you back 📚❤
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
Getting there folks....will keep you all updated.😃📚❤👍
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
Thank you.
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
We’ll still be here for you over the next lockdown! We’re open all next week Monday - Thursday for browsing. Although we’ll be closed to the public from the 27th November-11th December, we’ll still be open for book ordering. You can still get your book-fix in the following ways:
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No Alibis Bookstore
5 years
We are all working hard at adapting. For years we have welcomed folks INTO our Bookshops...if you are unable to get in to our Bookshops just drop us a line...we will "come" to YOU. #supportlocal
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
One perk of the winter nights is that the shop looks fantastic all lit up inside (especially with our Halloween decorations up! 👻🎃)
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
We can't wait to hear the patter of tiny feet (or honestly, any feet) in the shop again! 📚
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
Our staff have been working very hard lately and this St Patrick's Day we'll be closed to give them a well deserved day off. Aren't they lucky? 🍀🍀🍀
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
Well this was Fun.😃📚👍❤
@BBCBreakfast
BBC Breakfast
4 years
Shops in Northern Ireland can open from today. 🛍 @ChrisPageTV shows us how stores like @NOALIBISBOOKS are adapting ⤵️ More here:
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
𝐑𝐞-𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭! Thank you to all of our customers for your patience & support over the last few months. We're delighted to say that from Monday the 12th of April we’ll be re-opening for click & collect!
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No Alibis Bookstore
2 years
Finishing off our staff picks of 2022 on a high, here are David's favourite books of the year! 📚
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
Training and maintenance is finished and we're reopened again! 😁
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No Alibis Bookstore
5 years
We're doing the right thing: we've been responding incrementally so far, but we can't in good conscience continue to have people in the shop, so we're going exlcusively online. No Alibis is closed today and is going to be closed from tomorrow until it's safe to open again.
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
We did up our sign today! 🎨
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
Books, Traybakes, Chat....What a morning with @JanCarson7280 . Buns eaten, books signed, a perfect morning. Thank you Jan. ❤️📚😁
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No Alibis Bookstore
5 years
We have teamed up with a group of local authors to give away a #CrimeCarePackage to the value of £25 to ten people each day this week, fifty packages in total, containing a selection of great books hand chosen for each recipient. Read this thread for info on how to enter! 1/6
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No Alibis Bookstore
5 years
Sunday Opening Folks, we have decided to CLOSE No Alibis Bookstore this Sunday. Think you'll understand. We are OPEN for online ordering and purchasing. We have a really simple way to purchase store credit. It's all up on our Pinned Tweet on the Home page. Take Care! Be Well
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No Alibis Bookstore
5 years
Thank You to All who have supported @NOALIBISBOOKS in 2019....and throughout our 22 years in business. We are a great Team.... and Your help, support and advice make us Better. Seasonal Greetings to you All and may 2020 be Healthy and filled with Joy and Contentment. 📚
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
Who knew when we picked our location in 1997 that we'd be the perfect spot to grab your park read for a heatwave 24 years later? We've got some new staff picks in stock handpicked by our brilliant booksellers! 📚☀️
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
We're delighted to be named the Damian Barr's Literary Salon Indie Bookshop of The Month! Our owner, David, gave an interview about the shop that you can read here
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
Look who we had in to sign a massive pile of #TheDirtySouth ! All ready for publication on the 20th 🖊
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No Alibis Bookstore
6 years
In honour of Galentines and Valentines day (just days in general) we are offering a blind date with a book for £3.99! Go own! ❤️❣️💕💞💓💖💗
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
No, it's not too early for a Halloween themed sign 🦇🎃👻🕸️
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
If any publisher deserved a table all to themselves... @FitzcarraldoEds
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
Today, we received this. We were SPEECHLESS (with joy and happiness)! Twitter will not allow us to thank everyone involved in one tweet, so you'll just have to watch it😉Love to all who took part in this amazing video! @earthtoalice @Braziel + others ❤️📚
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No Alibis Bookstore
7 years
Young people don't buy books. Really??? Just had 4 delightfully cheery and funny young (19-21) men in the shop buying BOOKS for eachother as pressies...as each purchased the book they passed it on to a friend😀
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
We got an order in of @naturalistdara 's #DiaryofaYoungNaturalist in again this morning... and we've already sold half of them! Congratulations again to Dara on winning the Wainwright Prize! 🍃🌳💛
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
Surprise! We've been working with some fantastic local artists to make some new No Alibis Tote Bags! With 5 designs in total, have a look at this thread to check out all our designs. First up is @CzechFruzsi 's beautiful illustration of the shop front! 📚 (1/5)
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No Alibis Bookstore
5 years
Since our beloved Kitty is leaving us for the wilds of Wales, Stephen has been busy training our new bookseller! What he lacks in experience he makes up for with enthusiasm!
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
Thank you to the lovely customer who sent us a bottle of wine all the way from Belgium! We'll be drinking well tonight 🍷
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No Alibis Bookstore
6 years
Delighted to be featured along so many other amazing independent bookstores on this lovely island. ❤️
@IrishTimesCultr
Irish Times Culture
6 years
35 of the best independent bookshops in Ireland via @IrishTimesCultr
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
So proud to be involved in helping @fightingwordsni Just to let you know that it is actually 20% we are donating 😀📚♥️
@fightingwordsni
Fighting Words NI
3 years
We've had a lovely update from @NOALIBISBOOKS to say that they've raised over £2K already by donating 10% of all in store spend on the High Street voucher scheme to us. Here's our Cross Community Officer @NiamhScullionNI with David, owner of No Alibis & a total hero!
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No Alibis Bookstore
2 years
VERY IMPORTANT UPDATE Just look at him, not a hair out of place as he sips his jar of juice from The Juice Jar. Who knows what wonders await on his one-wheeled adventures? Every day opening out like a river heading towards the sea.
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
Who's the guy who goes around Botanic Avenue/Ormeau Road on one of those single wheel vehicle things? He does it at such speed with no helmet, nonchalantly, as if the roads were made of the idea safety itself. What are his dreams? What does his future hold? Thanks in advance.
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
Just a reminder that we are closed on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Stop by before then for any last minute presents or winter reading ❄️
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
Thank you to everyone that has been supporting us over the past few weeks with your likes, retweets and book orders! Apologies for any delays for getting back to people, but we are slowly playing catch up. All store credit is recorded and up to date!
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No Alibis Bookstore
7 years
Thanks to @GuardianBooks for the write-up!
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
Good afternoon to the man on the bicycle with a trailer attached on Botanic Avenue, oblivious to the trail of belongings jumping out of the trailer at every bump in the road. Good afternoon, too, to the kind people following him in a car, gathering said possessions.
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
We’d like to thank you all again for your patience and understanding! We’ve been busy in the shop with just two of us, but we’re almost caught up with your emails 📚
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
Thanks @SteveCavanagh_ for calling in to sign MORE of #TheDevilsAdvocate ! To celebrate we are offering some special gifts in a prize draw. Signed promo cards & an Eddie Flynn Gavel! Simply follow us & retweet for a chance to win these fantastic gifts! (1/2)
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
We're big fans of matching our books to our shop front! 📚💙
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
The Belfast International Arts Festival might be online this year, but you can still get your books in person! Swing by to check out our @BelfastFestival display! 📚❤️
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
Dance Move is here.
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
Books fill our days (and our shelves, our bedside tables, our living rooms...) 📚👍🤣
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No Alibis Bookstore
5 years
We want to reiterate our thanks to everyone who has been using our online ordering system at –– bear with us, we're out doing deliveries and down to a bare minimum of staff at the minute. Keep the orders coming, though, and we'll keep getting books to you.
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No Alibis Bookstore
7 years
1. Get coffee. 2. Open shop. 3. Put out sign. 4. Spend 15 minutes desperately searching inside shop for coffee from step 1.
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
Thank you @OliverJeffers for signing copies of your new book #WhatWellBuild and for arriving in style.
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
Hello Again. Our new shiny website is now back up and running...
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
Thank you @thomyorke and @StanleyDonwood for signing copies of #KidAMnesia Thank you @canongatebooks for supporting independent bookshops ❤️📚😊
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No Alibis Bookstore
2 years
Next up with their Books of the Year is Emma with a fantastic selection of local and international texts
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No Alibis Bookstore
5 years
'Hello. Yes, I'm looking for a book, if you can help.' 'Of course, what are you thinking? Lorrie Moore, Birds of America? Lucy Ellman's Ducks, Newburyport?' 'No, no. Not that kind of book.'
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No Alibis Bookstore
5 years
New arrival!!!
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
We've got some brand new No Alibis giftcards, just in time for Christmas! Available in store and through our website 📚❤️
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No Alibis Bookstore
6 years
We love what we do at No Alibis Bookstore. We always try to do our Best. However, sometimes we make mistakes. I made one today. We did fix it, but, for a short period of time, I brought upset and confusion to a customer. I felt very bad. Sorry. Dave.
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No Alibis Bookstore
7 years
We're 20 years old on the 6th of June!
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
Our heartfelt thanks to everyone that's been supporting us across social media and through buying store credit! We're trying our best to get books delivered to those that need them 📚 "All you can do is be patient - I'm sure we'll get through this."
@BelfastLive
Belfast Live
4 years
What a brilliant gesture! #InThisTogether
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
Who's the guy who goes around Botanic Avenue/Ormeau Road on one of those single wheel vehicle things? He does it at such speed with no helmet, nonchalantly, as if the roads were made of the idea safety itself. What are his dreams? What does his future hold? Thanks in advance.
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No Alibis Bookstore
5 years
I think this is the First Ever Stag Party to have a meet up in @NOALIBISBOOKS ...Thank You...
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
Thank you @JanCarson7280 for calling into @NOALIBISBOOKS to sign pre orders of #TheRaptures . Looking forward to seeing you between 10am and 12pm on Saturday 8th for an informal signing session. ❤️📚😁
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
We greatly appreciate and are overwhelmed by the generosity of all of those purchasing store credit! We're trying to get through all of you lovely people as quickly as possible, but we only have two members of staff in store so please bare with us as we get back to all of you
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
It's been a long year... but here's some "light" entertainment, courtesy of @ribhbrownlee as we put up our Christmas decorations in the shop! 🎄🎁📚
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No Alibis Bookstore
2 years
We were delighted to have @ManchanMagan in to sign copies of his new book, Listen to the Land Speak. Míle buíochas a Mhancháin!
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
New week, new signs! Plus our water bowls are full for any four legged friends out and about in the sunshine ☀️📚
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
Unfortunately we’ll be unable to reply to any emails until after 1pm, as we’re putting the finishing touches on remodelling the front of the store! Our apologies for any delays (but it will be worth it!) 🔨
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No Alibis Bookstore
6 years
With only 1 day, 9 hours and, eh, 30-something minutes left of 2018, here's a look back at a few highlights from 2018. Tweet us with some of your literary/musical highlights and we'll pick someone for a few treats (a little bit of @NoAlibisPress merchandise, perhaps)...
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
Guess who has signed copies of the newest Ian Rankin in stock 😜
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@Beathhigh
Ian Rankin
3 years
@NOALIBISBOOKS Might drop in and see you today - is David about?
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No Alibis Bookstore
2 years
Thank You @BrianPJRowan for calling into @NOALIBISBOOKS to sign copies of your latest book. #LivingWithGhosts @MerrionPress @BrooksidePubSrv
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No Alibis Bookstore
5 years
#CrimeCarePackage WOW! Over 60 Packs sent/about to go. Some Customers actually DONATED extra money for packs to go to others! Over 250 books donated! Sent to places, far & wide..Just around the corner and as far as Cork, Galway, Edinburgh, Bristol & Beyond. Respect to all below
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
Calling all QUB/UUJ students! We'll be putting up a range of textbooks (more than pictured!) up on our website for your Semester 2 modules. All including your 10% student discount 👨‍🎓👩‍🎓
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
Scientifically testing our new ramp. Conclusion: it works. We request that customers arriving on bicycles please dismount before entry, where possible.
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
Book signing has been a rare event in @NOALIBISBOOKS ... So, Thank You, @BrianMcGilloway for once again dropping in to sign in a socially distanced fashion ✍️📙😁
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No Alibis Bookstore
2 years
Absolute full house in @NOALIBISBOOKS tonight with the amazing @lizzienugent . Thank you so much to everyone who turned out to hear about #StrangeSallyDiamond And double thanks to all the authors who came out to support Liz and this amazing novel.
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
Thank you to all of our wonderful customers who have been wearing their masks in store! 😷❤️ If you want to come in to browse some books & don't have a mask, we have a special 'Sanitation Station' where we've got some disposable masks you can use! #ShopSafely
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No Alibis Bookstore
2 years
Over the next few days the staff of No Alibis will be showcasing some of their favourite reads of 2022. To start us off we have Claudia with some real gems.
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No Alibis Bookstore
2 years
Next up with their Books of the Year is John with a nicely varied collection of fiction.
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
@Tierkell98 🤣🤣🤣❤️📚📚📚We are a wee bit proactive in letting folks know when their Book orders have arrived... Rest assured, he is not here waiting for you.
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
A very happy-looking children's section today! 📚☀️
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No Alibis Bookstore
5 years
We've got a signed copies of @SJAMcBride 's new book. Get them while they're hot 🔥🔥🔥
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5 years
WOW!!!
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
Are you red-y for this week's top ten bestsellers? 📚🔥
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
Some lovely @FitzcarraldoEds tote bags arrived in to match our special display! 💙💙💙
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No Alibis Bookstore
5 years
Today we had an early book launch, of a sort, for Glenn Patterson's newest novel 'Where Are We Now?'... in an empty shop! Thanks @Heresmehere for swinging by and sharing some lovely words & sentiments📚 @HoZ_Books you can buy signed copies online here:
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
I'd really like to know. He's a modern day outlaw, a gyroscopic maveric, one pothole away from buying a dentist a house in the south of France.
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No Alibis Bookstore
5 years
No....THANK YOU😃📚❤
@drheatherj
Heather Johnson
5 years
Hurray for local independent bookstores!! I requested a ‘surprise pack’ of sanity-saving quarantine reading, and David and the @NOALIBISBOOKS team came through delightfully. It feels like an adventure - I’m SO excited to get reading! Huge thanks!
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@NOALIBISBOOKS
No Alibis Bookstore
2 years
Calling all frustrated Booksellers! No Alibis are looking for a part- time bookseller to join our team. 3-4 days p/w. Please send a CV and Cover Letter to david @noalibis .com Please note- previous Bookselling experience is essential.
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
As many of our regulars know, we don't need an excuse to recommend our favourite books by women in translation (but we'll do it anyway!). August is officially #WomenInTranslation month so we thought we'd highlight a few of our favourites📚❤
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
Thanks to @RoyalMail ...Books!!!!
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
First delivery of books in 6 weeks , from our US Wholesaler....Hurrah....
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No Alibis Bookstore
5 years
My goodness. It's 20 past 11 in the morning. At least bring a book with you if you're going to have a drink in the sunshine this early in the day. And where might you find a book near the Empire...?
@belfastEmpire
Belfast Empire
5 years
What's that in the sky? The sun? Hit the beer garden while you still can!
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No Alibis Bookstore
2 years
Thank you @jconnollybooks for signing copies of #TheFuries . The local post office is very busy today.....sorry... 🙄😊❤️📚
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
I've #justdonated to help get Belfast Multi-Cultural Association back to its vital work. Say No to racism!. Donate on @justgiving and help raise £40000
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No Alibis Bookstore
6 years
Hello all book collectors! We have a surprise for you! This Sunday 21st October between 1-2.30 we will be selling 1st Edtions, Signed Editons and Rare Editions that we have been keeping hidden away..1/2
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No Alibis Bookstore
8 years
Christmas season has officially started! Kate has planted a Ian Rankin @Beathhigh bush!
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
We just had @malodoherty in the shop signing literally hundreds of copies of The Year of Chaos! You can grab your signed copy for 10% off in the shop or on our website:
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No Alibis Bookstore
4 years
Some signed copies of the latest Michael Longley in store too! Some gems found their way to us today🕯️
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No Alibis Bookstore
8 years
Thank you Brian, and more importantly , Rosie, for making this quote even more relevant. No Books consumed in this project! #mansbestfriend
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No Alibis Bookstore
3 years
Nice wee shipment of Graphic Novels just arrived.
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