No Alibis — Blog — Jan Carson

My Favorite Reads of 2023

I’m a day late but I’ve finally been able to sit down with my diary to have a good think through my reading year. It’s been an absolute cracker. Lots of travel time to read in transit, a brilliant reading project -working my way chronologically through the complete works of Toni Morrison and Kurt Vonnegut- and the ongoing brilliance of Mexico and Below Book group, (which meets monthly in No Alibis to read translated literature from countries below Mexico- you can follow us on Instagram), have all combined to make it the best reading year I can remember.

Julie CarsonJanuary 1, 2024No Alibis, reading, Catherine Lacey

My Favourite Reads of 2022

2022 was a great reading year. It shall henceforth be known as the year I discovered Barbara Pym, Annie Proulx and Barbara Comyns about a million years after everyone else. The year I tried to get into Patricia Highsmith and Virginia Woolf and ultimately decided life was too short. And also the year I devoured Graham Greene and found all the Catholic Guilt felt oddly comforting.

Thoughts on the Night Before Publication

Tomorrow morning my seventh book will be released into the world. The Raptures has been fifteen years in the making. It’s the book I wanted to write when I first decided that writing was what I absolutely had to do.

Julie CarsonJanuary 5, 2022The Raptures, The Fire Starters, No Alibis, Book Launch

The Raptures - A Wee Bit of Background for the Uninitiated

My third novel, The Raptures is launching on January 6th 2022. That date’s getting scarily close. If you’d like to support me and the team who are working hard behind the scenes you can pre-order a copy from your favourite Indie Book Store. Mine’s No Alibis, Belfast but buying from any independent bookseller is a brilliant and much-appreciated thing to do.