IRISH LITERATURE

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 / Charlie Savage (Hardback)

 **SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC WRITING 2019**Meet Charlie Savage: a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, a drinking...

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

 '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...

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 / The Barrytown Trilogy: The Commitments (Hardback)

Together in one volume, this book contains Roddy Doyle's trilogy about the Rabbitte family of Barrytown, north Dublin. "The Commitments" was a major film of 1991, "The Snapper" is currently being...

Roddy Doyle / The Commitments

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Roddy Doyle / The Dead Republic

 We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Utah desert to die - only to be discovered by John Ford, who's there shooting his latest Western...

Roddy Doyle / The Deportees

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Roddy Doyle / The Van

  The Van is the story of Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr., and his best friend Bimbo, who buy an old fish-and-chip van and go into business in the Dublin of the 1990s.       To view...

Roddy Doyle / The Woman Who Walked Into Doors

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