{"product_id":"the-ultimate-1980s-belfast-weekend-andrew-mccartney-9798254278788","title":"The Ultimate 1980s Belfast Weekend: Create Your Own Adventure","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBout ye. Welcome to the ultimate 1980s Belfast survival test.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStep back into a decade where dodging an army checkpoint is just standard cardiovascular exercise, and a bomb scare on the Lisburn Road is just another excuse for being late to the pictures. You are a Belfast teenager armed with a fresh bottle of Brut aftershave, rock-solid gelled hair, and a desperate need to survive the weekend without getting absolutely scundered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this isn't a normal book you read from front to back like an absolute eejit. This is an interactive survival manual where \u003ci\u003eyou\u003c\/i\u003e make the choices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour mission is simple: survive from Friday night to Sunday afternoon. However, standing between you and a legendary weekend is everything this city does best: riots, RUC meat wagons, terrifying interface areas, bouncers the size of transit vans, mutant takeaway seagulls, and Big Davy's terrible mullet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCan you survive the three stages of a Belfast weekend? \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFriday Night (The Date):  You are taking Sarah from fourth year to the cinema. Will you risk the smelly Ulsterbus, or leg it through the park and risk an interrogation by local headers in shiny shell suits? Make the wrong call, and you'll end up completely boggin' in a muddy puddle. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSaturday Night (The Night Out): \u003c\/b\u003e You and your mucker Smicko are underage, skint, and trying to get into the legendary Manhattan Club. Will you try to blag the front door with a library card covered in sticky-back plastic, or try to sneak through the kitchen? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSunday Morning (The Fear): \u003c\/b\u003e The ultimate test. You wake up with a mouth tasting like the bottom of a Harp glass. Can you navigate the deadly silence of the house, survive Father Donnelly's glare at Sunday Mass, and negotiate the delicate politics of the Ulster Fry without stealing your Da's sacred eggs? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this city, the collapse of civil society is nothing compared to the sheer terror of your Ma finding out you ruined your good Wrangler jeans.\u003cp\u003eMake your choices carefully. If you succeed, you are an absolute legend. If you fail, you'll be grounded until Christmas, barred for life, or forced to spend your weekend drawing a map of South America (and you \u003ci\u003ewill\u003c\/i\u003e get Brazil wrong).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrab your coat, catch yourself on, and see if you have the brass neck to survive The Ultimate 1980s Belfast Weekend.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew McCartney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798254278788\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d","brand":"Andrew McCartney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172636041471,"sku":"9798254278788","price":10.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-ultimate-1980s-belfast-weekend-andrew-mccartney-9798254278788","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}