The essential guide to Doyle’s themes, genre and narrative techniques in The Snapper , Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha , The Van , The Commitments , and including an exclusive author interview.
When Mister Mack gets arrested for supposedly robbing the bank, it is up to Rover the dog and the Mack children to rescue him and find their Guinness-record-breaking mother who is running around the world. Reprint.
Booker Prizewinning Irish writer Roddy Doyle writes about his parents, using their own words, memories, and anecdotes to illuminate modest Dublin lives in the second half of the 20th century.
It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. He catches ...
Henry Smart, born into poverty in Ireland, son of a teenage button-maker and a wanted murderer, joins the IRA, and eventually emigrates. Paddy Doyle's historical novel, the first of a projected trilogy about his hero, includes actual people...
Paula Spencer--whose identity evolves from competitive sibling to moonstruck wife to embattled mother--recalls episodes from her life, particularly her relationship with her abusive husband, Charlo. Roddy Doyle's novel perceptively explores...
The Gigglers are tiny, furry beings, and they believe that adults who are mean to children should be punished. When Mr. Mack's children break a window and he sends them to their rooms without supper, the Gigglers plan their revenge--not kno...
By the author of THE COMMITMENTS, this is the story of Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr., and his best friend Bimbo, who buy an old fish-and-chips van and go into business in the Dublin of the 1990s.
A first collection of short works by the author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha depicts the immigrant experience in contemporary Ireland as reflected in the stories of a father who confronts his prejudices when his daughter brings home a black man...
Dickens's only serious, uncomic novel, A TALE OF TWO CITIES, is set during the French Revolution and tells a story of unselfish devotion. The beautiful Lucy Manette marries Charles Darnay, the descendant of an aristocratic French family den...
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 the fights - and the one big fight that drove them apart. Will they fight again, or...
A literary sequel to Roddy Doyle's THE WOMAN WHO WALKED INTO DOORS, this novel picks up the story of Paula Spencer after she has rid herself of her abusive criminal husband and the blight of alcoholism. Paula is 48, and for the first time h...