The Man Booker-winning author of "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" offers a hilarious and devastating novel in which a chance encounter over a pint leads Victor to confront dark memories of schooldays under the Christian Brothers, and to take...

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 with a trumpet and bleeding lips called Louis Armstrong. Armstrong needs a...

1924 betritt Henry Smart, irischer Rebell und Killer, amerikanischen Boden. New York ist das Zentrum des Universums, und Henry einer, der sich schnell anpasst. Bald geht er lukrativen Geschäften nach - es herrscht Prohibition, und mit...

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 and finally equipped to be a mother to her children. But...

Henry Smart kehrt 1951 nach langjährigem Exil in den USA in seine Heimat Irland zurück. Der berühmte Hollywood-Regisseur John Ford will das Leben des einstigen IRA-Kämpfers verfilmen. Doch Henry, der nach einem Unfall ein Bein verloren...

***A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR THIS AUTUMN***A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short storiesLove and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone...

Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of eleven acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van and Smile, two collections of short stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the...

Früher, in ihrer Jugend, waren Davy und Joe gute Kumpels, die sich an den Wochenenden gemeinsam durch Dublins Pubs tranken. Inzwischen treffen sie einander nur noch, wenn Davy aus England nach Hause kommt, um seinen Vater zu besuchen. Es...

The struggles and observations of middle-aged Dublin man Charlie Savage, as enjoyed in serial form by readers of the "Irish Independent", come together in one volume here. Also features Savage's long-suffering wife, modern-thinking...

Gerade in eine neue Wohnung gezogen und zum ersten Mal seit Jahren allein, besucht Victor jeden Abend Donnelly's Pub. Eines Abends bekommt er Gesellschaft. Ein Mann bringt ihm ein Bier, stellt sich als Fitzpatrick vor. Er kennt Victor...

When Uncle Ben's Dublin business fails, it's clear to Gloria and Raymond that something is wrong. He just isn't his usual cheerful self. So when the children overhear their granny saying that the Black Dog has settled on Ben's back and...

Love and marriage, children and family, death and grief. Life touches everyone the same, but living under lockdown? It changes us alone.A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks...