Roddy Doyle

A powerful, moving mother-daughter story filled with struggle and redemption by Booker-Prize Winning author Roddy Doyle....

Paula Spencer is a 39-year-old working-class woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after marriage to an abusive husband and a worsening drinking problem....

Patrick Clarke is a 10-year-old boy trying to make sense of his world. He is confused. His Ma and Da fight too much. School seems like a joke....

Just moved into a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly's for a pint, a slow one....

Narrated by Stephen Hogan and introduced by Roy Keane....

The eight tales in Roddy Doyle's first-ever collection of stories have one thing in common: someone born in Ireland meets someone who has come to live there....

Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paula's 48th birthday. She hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Having outlived an abusive husband and father, Paula and her four children are now struggling to live their adult lives....

One summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Drinking pals back in their youth, now married and with grown up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths....

Born in the slums of Dublin in 1901, his father a one-legged whore-house bouncer and settler of scores....

Dublin, 1968. Der zehnjährige Paddy Clarke langweilt sich in der Schule und vertreibt sich die Zeit mit Freunden, zieht durch die Straßen, treibt Unfug ...

Told with Doyle’s signature warmth, wit, and extraordinary eye for the richness that underpins the quiet of our lives, Life Without Children cuts to the heart of how we are all navigating loss, loneliness, and the shifting of history underneath our feet....

Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke lights fires....

Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paula's 48th birthday....

Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle shines with this epic conclusion to the saga of his indomitable Irish rebel Henry Smart....

Paula O'Leary is hugely popular with the boys from her working-class Dublin neighbourhood. But it is the charming Charlo Spencer who finally gets her....

Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul....

Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments returns in the triumphant new novel from the Booker Prize–winning author....

Jimmy Rabbitte Sr is facing the vicissitudes of unemployment when his friend Bimbo invites him to become his partner in a new venture....

Meet the Rabbitte family, motley bunch of loveable ne'er-do-wells whose everyday purgatory is rich with hangovers, dogshit and dirty dishes....

Just 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....