IRISH LITERATURE

Richard Murphy / The Kick (Hardback)

 In The Kick, poet Richard Murphy has constructed, from astonishingly detailed diaries kept over the course of five decades, a unique memoir of his life and times. The book is a publishing event...

Roddy Doyle / A Star Called Henry (Hardback)

Born in the slums of Dublin in 1902, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk he's out robbing, begging, often...

Roddy Doyle / Bullfighting (Large Paperback)

 The men in "Bullfighting" are each concerned with loss in different ways - of their place in their world, of power, virility, love - of the boom days and the Celtic Tiger. 'The stories, his...

Roddy Doyle / Life Without Children : Stories (Large Paperback)

 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 the...

Roddy Doyle / Love (Hardback)

   ** AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 **** SHORTLISTED FOR THE DALKEY LITERARY NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021 **'A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality' John BoyneOne...

Roddy Doyle / Love (Large Paperback)

 '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...

Roddy Doyle / Oh, Play That Thing (Hardback)

 On the last page of A Star Called Henry, the first volume of the The Last Roundup trilogy, we left Henry Smart on the run from his Republican paymasters, the men for whom he had perpetrated...

Roddy Doyle / Paula Spencer (Hardback)

  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...

Roddy Doyle / Smile

 ust moved into 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...

Roddy Doyle / The Deportees

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Roddy Doyle / The Guts (Signed by the Author) (Large Paperback)

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Roddy Doyle / The Woman Who Walked Into Doors

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