Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of eight acclaimed novels and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. von Doyle, Roddy

Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub...In 2012, Roddy Doyle showed us the world anew: through the back-and-forth of two Dublin pub-dwellers. They chewed the fat, set the world to rights, slagged each other unmercifully. And along the...

Jimmy Rabbitte is back. He's 47, with a loving family... and bowel cancer. This long-awaited sequel to THE COMMITMENTS is a novel about facing death and opting for life. It climaxes with four middle-aged men at Ireland's hottest rock...

Der Name Henry Smart steht für eine untergegangene Welt, deren Legenden und Mythen bis heute die irische Seele berühren und das Stadtbild Dublins prägen. Irgendwo zwischen einem übermächtigen Sternenhimmel und den düsteren Kanälen der...

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'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, their lives have taken seemingly...

Paperback edition of Doyle's latest book which follows the fortunes of Paula Spencer, a working-class, alcoholic, battered woman in her thirties. "Mr Doyle has made his own the gritty world of modern Dublin, violent, generous-hearted,...

Two old friends reconnect in Dublin for a dramatic, revealing evening of drinking and storytelling in this winning new novel from the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha HaOne summer's evening, two men meet up in a...

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...