1. what's on

Current Affairs

David Kogan: Protest and Power - The Battle for The Labour Party

Friday 07 June 2019

Non-Fiction

Sinéad Gleeson & Kevin Breathnach - Constellations & Tunnel Vision

Friday 07 June 2019
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Fiction

Will Self

Friday 07 June 2019

Poetry

Seamus Heaney Centre Presents… TIME

Friday 07 June 2019
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Family

Drag Story Time

Saturday 08 June 2019

Crime

Crime at The Crescent: Creative Surgery

Saturday 08 June 2019

Current Affairs

Lord David Owen

Saturday 08 June 2019

Crime

Crime at The Crescent: Panel Discussion

Saturday 08 June 2019

Current Affairs

Emma Dabiri: Don’t Touch My Hair

Saturday 08 June 2019

Non-Fiction

Connal Parr: The Protestant Imagination

Saturday 08 June 2019

Poetry

Doire Press Poetry Launch: Glen Wilson & Moyra Donaldson

Saturday 08 June 2019

Current Affairs

Naomi Wolf Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love

Saturday 08 June 2019

Current Affairs

Life After Life with Paddy Armstrong of The Guildford Four

Saturday 08 June 2019

Poetry

The River Mill Presents: Miriam Gamble, Eoghan Walls & Alex Wylie

Saturday 08 June 2019

Theatre

Cake Daddy

Saturday 08 June 2019

Fiction

Scarlet Ink: Belfast Women Crime Writers

Sunday 09 June 2019

Fiction

Literary Issues: The Stinging Fly & The Tangerine

Sunday 09 June 2019

Music & Words

‘Don’t Anticipate the Ending’ A Life’s Work in Progress

Sunday 09 June 2019
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Fiction

Belfast Stories Anthology

Sunday 09 June 2019
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Poetry

The Seamus Heaney Centre presents Tracy K Smith

Sunday 09 June 2019

Non-Fiction

Gerald Dawe: In Another World - Van Morrison and Belfast

Sunday 09 June 2019

Current Affairs

Reni Eddo-Lodge

Sunday 09 June 2019

Poetry

The North Magazine Launch

Sunday 09 June 2019

Fiction

Michael Hughes: Country

Monday 10 June 2019

Lifestyle

Laura Thomas: Just Eat It

Monday 10 June 2019

Current Affairs

Reimagining Global Abortion Politics

Monday 10 June 2019
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Non-Fiction

Dr. Richard Shepherd

Monday 10 June 2019

Poetry

Paul Maddern: The Tipping Line

Monday 10 June 2019

Well-being

Cancer Focus NI 50th Anniversary Literary Journal Launch

Tuesday 11 June 2019

Non-Fiction

Deric Henderson & Ivan Little

Tuesday 11 June 2019

Poetry

Medbh McGuckian

Tuesday 11 June 2019
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Non-Fiction

Terry Waite: Solitude

Tuesday 11 June 2019

Lifestyle

Jack Monroe

Tuesday 11 June 2019

Poetry

Poetry NI presents Incoming

Tuesday 11 June 2019

Poetry

The Lifeboat With Caitlin Newby & Scott McKendry

Tuesday 11 June 2019

Poetry

Poetry NI presents The Belfast Book Festival Poetry Slam

Tuesday 11 June 2019

Non-Fiction

Breaking New Ground

Wednesday 12 June 2019

Current Affairs

Yes, We Still Drink Coffee! Stories of Woman Human Rights Defenders

Wednesday 12 June 2019

Fiction

The Art of the Short Story

Wednesday 12 June 2019

Fiction

Prue Leith: The Lost Son

Wednesday 12 June 2019

Engage

The Crescent Book Club

Wednesday 12 June 2019
Sold Out

Poetry

Michael Longley at 80: A Celebration

Wednesday 12 June 2019

Non-Fiction

Jamie Bartlett

Wednesday 12 June 2019

Culture

CinePunked Presents Burn All Books

Wednesday 12 June 2019

Poetry

Shane Koyczan

Wednesday 12 June 2019
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Poetry

Paul Muldoon

Thursday 13 June 2019

Poetry

Dawn Watson & Conor Cleary

Thursday 13 June 2019

Current Affairs

Alan Johnson: In My Life

Thursday 13 June 2019

Music

Beckett into Music

Thursday 13 June 2019

Fiction

The Fantastical Mirror: Science Fiction Across Boundaries

Friday 14 June 2019

Fiction

Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers

Friday 14 June 2019

Poetry

Leontia Flynn

Friday 14 June 2019

Fiction

Ian Sansom: The Sussex Murder

Friday 14 June 2019

Current Affairs

Paul Mason: Clear Bright Future - A Radical Defence of the Human Being

Friday 14 June 2019

Family

Alex T. Smith Mr Penguin and The Fortress of Secrets

Saturday 15 June 2019

Family

The Belfast Book Festival Family Fun Day

Saturday 15 June 2019

Fiction

The Open University 50th Anniversary Readings

Saturday 15 June 2019

Non-Fiction

Donald McRae

Saturday 15 June 2019

Culture

Of the Warm South

Saturday 15 June 2019

Non-Fiction

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne Twelve Thousand Days: A Memoir of Love and Loss

Saturday 15 June 2019

Current Affairs

Mariam Khan: It’s Not About The Burqa

Saturday 15 June 2019

Fiction

Being Various: New Irish Short Stories

Saturday 15 June 2019

Fiction

Mairtín Crawford Awards for Short Story & Poetry

Saturday 15 June 2019

Fiction

The Politics of Fiction

Saturday 15 June 2019

Theatre

Strolling through Ulysses!

Saturday 15 June 2019

Theatre

“Yes” Molly’s Soliloquy

Sunday 16 June 2019

Fiction

Wendy Erskine & Nicole Flattery

Sunday 16 June 2019

Fiction

Kevin Barry: Night Boat to Tangier

Sunday 16 June 2019

Theatre

Famished

Sunday 16 June 2019

Fiction

John Boyne: My Brother’s Name is Jessica

Sunday 16 June 2019

Poetry

In a Small Back Room

Sunday 16 June 2019
Selling Fast

Fiction

Roddy Doyle: Charlie Savage

Sunday 16 June 2019

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