Roddy Doyle

At sixty-six, Paula Spencer—mother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivor—is finally living her life. Despite its ghosts, Paula has started to push her past aside. That is until Paula’s eldest, Nicola, turns up on her doorstep.

Smile has all the features for which Doyle has become famous: the razor-sharp dialogue, the humor, the superb evocation of adolescence, but this is a novel unlike any he has written before. You will have been challenged to reevaluate everything you think you remember so clearly....

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

Meet Charlie Savage: a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, a drinking buddy who’s realized that he’s been a woman all along....

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

If adults are mean to children, they get the Giggler Treatment. It's smelly. It's squishy. And it sticks to your shoe ...

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

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

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....

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

Old friends meet up on a summer's evening at a Dublin restaurant. Both are now married with grown-up children, and their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he has to tell Davy, and Davy, a grief he wants to keep from Joe. Both are not the men they used to be....

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

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

Jimmy Rabbitte is back. The man who invented the Commitments back in the eighties is now forty-seven, with a loving wife, four kids...and bowel cancer....

Früher waren Davy und Joe gute Kumpels. Inzwischen treffen sie sich nur noch gelegentlich, wenn Davy aus England nach Dublin kommt...

Früher waren Davy und Joe gute Kumpels. Inzwischen treffen sie sich nur noch gelegentlich, wenn Davy aus England nach Dublin kommt, um...

Il signor Mack stava andando alla stazione. Era una bella giornata di sole. Gli uccellini sui rami cantavano la loro canzone preferita, e spirava un'arietta piena dei profumi della prima colazione: pancetta, uova, zampe di rana e cavolo verzo. Il signor Mack fa un lavoro davvero...

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

Roddy Doyle has earned a devoted following for his wry wit, his uncanny ear, and his ability to fully capture the hearts of his characters.....

"Paula Spencer lebt endlich ihr eigenes Leben. Sie ist Mutter, Großmutter, Witwe, trockene Alkoholikerin und Überlebende. Sie hat einen Job bei der ...