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Love by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
'A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality' John Boyne One summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he has to tell Davy, and Davy, a ...Show more
Love by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
A masterful novel about coming-of-age and finding love in Dublin's pubs, from the Booker-winning Roddy Doyle'A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality' John BoyneOne summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant.Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, ...Show more
PAULA SPENCER by DOYLE RODDY
Category: Accessories
"Pure, undiluted pleasure" ("The Washington Post") from Booker Prize- winning author Roddy Doyle Roddy Doyle 's beautifully wrought tale revisits the Dublin housewife-heroine of his earlier acclaimed novel, "The Woman Who Walked Into Doors." Paula is now forty-seven, her abusive husband is long dead, a ...Show more
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE - the bittersweet and funny take of a boy growing up in north Dublin. Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke lights fires. Paddy Clarke's name is written in wet cement all over Barrytown, north Dublin. Paddy Clarke's heroes are Father Damien (and the lepers), Geronimo and ...Show more
Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
Begins on the eve of Paula's forty-ninth birthday. She hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest children, Jack and Leanne, are still living with her. They're grand kids, but she worries about Leanne. Paula still works as a cleaner, but all the others doing the job now seem to come ...Show more
Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
When we first met Paula Spencer - in "The Woman Who Walked into Doors" - she was thirty-nine, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggling to hold her family together. 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 childr ...Show more
Rover and the Big Fat Baby by Roddy Doyle
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Rover
A hilarious new Rover adventure for young readers from the Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle and illustrated by Chris Judge.The BFB (Big Fat Baby) is missing!Can Rover the wonder dog and his little nephew Messi (who is actually very tidy) track her down?While Rover and co. are hot on the trail of ...Show more
Rover and the Big Fat Baby by Roddy Doyle
Category: Children's Fiction
It's the summer holidays and Rover is busy searching for poo. He works for The Gigglers, small furry creatures who make sure grown-ups are nice to their kids. If they aren't, they get the Giggler Treatment - a smelly, squishy present on the end of their shoe, which is where Rover comes in. But Rover and ...Show more
Smile by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
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 his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and pink shirt brings over his pint and sits down. He seems to know Victor's name and to remember him from ...Show more
Smile by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
"It's Doyle's bravest novel yet; it's also, by far, his best." npr.org "The closest thing he's written to a psychological thriller." The New York Times Book Review From the author of the Booker Prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, a bold, haunting novel about the uncertainty of memory and how we contend ...Show more
THE VAN by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
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 old friends are out of luck and out of options. That is, until Bimbo finds a dilapidated 'chipper van' and the pair decide to go into bu ...Show more
The Commitments by Roddy Doyle
Category: Accessories
Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul. Ably managed by Jimmy Rabitte, brilliantly coached by Joel 'The Lips' Fagan, their twin assault on Motown and Barrytown takes them by leaps and bounds from Paris Hall to immortality on vinyl. But can Th ...Show more