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Roddy Doyle
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 1993 Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke’s heroes are Father Damien (and the lepers), Geronimo and George Best. Paddy Clarke loves his Ma…
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‘A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality’ John Boyne One summer’s evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. But Joe has a secret he has to…
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A powerful, moving mother-daughter story filled with struggle and redemption by Booker-Prize winning author Roddy Doyle
At sixty-six, Paula Spencer-mother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivor-has finally started to live her life…
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A … portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories –Provided by publisher.
Booker-Prize winner Roddy Doyle’s spectacular return to his iconic character, Paula Spencer, whom he originated in the groundbreaking The Woman Who Walked into Doors and its follow-up, Paula Spencer
Charles Bukowski
The autobiographical coming-of-age modern classic by one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century.
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Caramine White
In this anaysis of Roddy Doyle’s first five novels, Caramine White argues that while Doyle is undoubtedly one of the most popular contemporary novelists, he also needs to be seen…
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Margaret Reynolds,Jonathan Noakes
One of a series introducing some of the most exciting works in contemporary fiction. This volume deals with themes, genre and narrative techniques employed by Roddy Doyle in three of…
Doyle once again gives readers a prodigious, energetic, sexy novel, rich with language and music as Henry Smart makes his way across America to elude the men for whom he…
From the Booker Prize winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Commitments: the story of an ordinary woman whose extraordinary character will stay with you long after…
Danny Murphy is going to meet his brother, Jimmy. They haven’t seen each other in more than 20 years. On the way to the meeting, Danny remembers the fun and…
Meet Charlie Savage. Charlie is a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, a drinking buddy who’s realised that he’s been a woman all along … Compiled here…
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A hilarious new Rover adventure for young readers from the Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle and illustrated by Chris Judge.
In this acclaimed novel from a Booker Prize winning author, 12-year-old Irish schoolgirl Mary O Hara is having difficulty coming to grips with the impending death of her beloved Granny…
Ten years on from The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Booker Prize-winning author, Roddy Doyle, returns to one of his greatest characters, Paula Spencer. Paula Spencer is turning forty-eight, and…
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha comes a heartrending and beautifully written novel of a woman emerging from an abusive…
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha takes the pulse of modern Ireland with a masterful new collection of stories. Sharply observed, funny, and moving, these…
Henry falls on his feet, as a handsome man with a sandwich board, and - this being Prohibition - behind his sandwich board a stash of hooch for the speakeasies…
Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights, take the piss… They talk about their wives, their kids, their…
In this national bestseller and winner of the Booker Prize, Roddy Doyle, author of the Barrytown Trilogy , takes us to a new level of emotional richness with the story…
An original story from Roddy Doyle on family, jealousy, passion and redemption
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Dave, Pat, and Ben have been close friends since they were kids. On a trip to see their favorite Liverpool football team, they have a few too many drinks before…
A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short stories Love and marriage.
Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paula’s forty-eighth birthday. She hasn’t had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest children, Jack and Leanne, are still living…
"[Doyle] imparts a sense of poignancy and glimpses of happiness, of grief and loss and small moments of connection . . . you're left feeling close to dazzled." -Daphne Merkin…
First published in hardcover in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London. –Title page verso.
Doyle’s stories for Metro Eireann, a magazine by and for immigrants to Ireland, take a new slant on the immigrant experience. The Deportees collects these stories in one volume for…
Doyle’s ambitious new novel is a passionate love story that takes a subversive look behind the legends of Irish republicanism through the eyes of one of Michael Collins’ infamous boys–a…
Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of Soul. Ably managed by Jimmy Rabitte, brilliantly coached by Joel ‘The Lips’ Fagan, their twin assault…
Ably managed by Jimmy Rabbitte, brilliantly coached by Joey ‘The Lips’ Fagan, their twin assault on Motown and Barrytown takes them by leaps and bounds from the parish hall to…
He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. Furious, wild, happy music played by a man…
The next round in the beloved Two Pints series from the ever-brilliant, always hilarious imagination of bestselling author of The Commitments and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Two men meet…
Just moved in to a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly’s pub for a pint, a slow one. One evening…
Born in the Dublin slums of 1901, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. With his father’s wooden leg as…
We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Utah desert to die - only to be discovered by John Ford…
Each is concerned with loss in different ways - of their place in the world, of power, virility, love - of the boom days and the Celtic Tiger. Brilliantly observed…
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One of Ireland’s most popular novelists and the author of the Booker Prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha movingly depicts a woman, both strong and fragile, who is fighting back…
Danny Murphy is going to meet his brother, Jimmy. they haven’t seen each other in over twenty years. On the way to the meeting, Danny remembers the good times and…
Rabbitte family is a bunch of loveable ne'er-do-wells whose everyday purgatory is rich with hangovers, dogshit and dirty dishes. When the older sister announces her pregnancy, the family are forced…
Roddy Doyle’s Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin. From fun and adventure on the streets, boredom in the classroom to…
Jimmy Rabbitte is unemployed and rapidly running out of money. His best friend Bimbo has been made redundant at the company where he has worked for many years. The two…
Deals with the Rabbitte family from Barrytown, Dublin. In this title, we follow the rapid rise of Jimmy Rabbitte’s soul band, the Commitments, and their equally rapid fall; and Sharon…
Longlisted for the 2015 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Jimmy Rabbitte is back. The man who invented the Commitments back in the eighties is now forty-seven, with a loving wife, four…
