Inspired by a curious request made in 2010 to Belfast's Ulster Museum by Northern Ireland's Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure, A Ballad of Beliefs is a trilogy of novels that takes a wry look at the bewildering varieties of Christianity towards the end of the twentieth century. Set primarily in Belfast at the start of the 1990s, the story begins with seven friends hoping to spend Christmas Eve together, drinking in some of the city's...