Meet Me In The Morning, 56th and Wabasha (Updated!)

But let's not make it tomorrow morning and how about instead of 56th and Wabasha we try 83 Botanic Avenue, Belfast? Ok? What's at 83 Botanic I hear you ask? Why, No Alibis bookshop of course. I just got the good word from those fine people at Serpents Tail that I'll be there on Wednesday July 8 at 6:30 pm for the British and Irish launch of Fifty Grand. No Alibis is one of the great bookshops of the world, but there's a big problem reading there these days. Dave Torrans. Mr Torrans, NA's host with the most, has now become more famous than a good number of his guest readers because of the success of the brilliant new Colin Bateman novel Mystery Man. MM is being turned into a TV film by the BBC and is a Richard and Judy Book Club pick (for American readers think Regis and Kelly, but Richard as Kelly). The book begins in No Alibis and much of the early going is centred around the shop. Further spoilers would, er, spoil it but I found it to be absolutely hilarious. Already famous from his appearances on BBC radio Torrans is on the verge of superstardom and when he plays a version of himself in the film, he'll be impossible. But please, if you are going to come to the reading, say hi to me too. I'll be the jetlagged one that isn't bald.
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Want another reason to come? Ok. I'll be giving away the annotated American galley of Fifty Grand that I used for the final copyedit. Oh, and there were will be free drink.