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By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9781784709570
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 12th March 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Meet Charlie Savage.

Charlie is a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, a drinking buddy whos realised that hes been a woman all along

Compiled here for the first time is a whole years worth of Roddy Doyles hilarious series for the Irish Independent.


(Paperback)

By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9781529115024
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)

By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9781529112672
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality' John Boyne

One summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. But Joe has a secret he has to tell Davy, and Davy a grief he wants to keep from Joe.


(Paperback)

By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9781784706357
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Hardback, Large Print Edition)

By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9781432896164
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Thorndike Press
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(Paperback)

By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9780099555629
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Each is concerned with loss in different ways - of their place in the world, of power, virility, love - of the boom days and the Celtic Tiger.

Brilliantly observed, funny and moving, the stories in Bullfighting present a new vision of contemporary Ireland, of its woes and triumphs.


(Paperback)

By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9780732268497
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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Danny Murphy is going to meet his brother, Jimmy. they haven't seen each other in over twenty years. On the way to the meeting, Danny remembers the good times and the bad times, the fun and the fights - and the one big row that drove them apart. Will they fight again or will they become the friends they used to be Danny doesn't know.


(Paperback)

By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9780099449225
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2003
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2003
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Through their eyes we see the intensely Catholic society of their youth being transformed into the vibrant, modern Ireland of today.

Both are marvellous talkers, so combined with Roddy Doyle's legendary skill in illuminating ordinary experience, Rory & Ita makes for a book of tremendous warmth and humanity.


(Paperback)

By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9780099590521
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2013
UK Publication Date: 21st November 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Deals with the Rabbitte family from Barrytown, Dublin. In this title, we follow the rapid rise of Jimmy Rabbitte's soul band, the Commitments, and their equally rapid fall; and Sharon Rabbitte's attempts to keep the identity of her unborn child's father a secret, amid intense speculation from her family and friends.


(Paperback)

By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9781447248774
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Feb 2015
UK Publication Date: 29th January 2015
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A 'brilliant' middle-grade magical adventure from the world-famous author of The Commitments and The Guts.


(Paperback)

By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9781407139722
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Oct 2013
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2013
Publisher: Scholastic
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Gloriously silly comedy from Booker prize winner and bestseller Roddy Doyle. If adults are mean to children, they get the Giggler Treatment. It's smelly. It's squishy. And it sticks to your shoe. But sometimes, just sometimes, the Gigglers make a mistake... Can anyone come to Mr Mack's rescue before the poo hits the shoe


(Paperback)

By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9781407139746
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Oct 2013
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2013
Publisher: Scholastic
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It's up to Jimmy, Robbie, Kayla and Rover the wonder-dog to rescue Mr Mack from prison, avoid the orphan catchers and save the world from an army of stroppy slugs. Will they succeed There's only one way to find out...


(Paperback)

By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9780099284482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2000
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2000
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Born in the Dublin slums of 1901, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. With his father's wooden leg as his weapon, Henry becomes a Republican legend - one of Michael Collins' boys, a cop killer, an assassin on a stolen bike.


(Paperback)

By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9780099477655
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2005
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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 man, a white man, and the man he chooses is Henry Smart.


(Paperback)

By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9780749397357
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1996
UK Publication Date: 1st June 1994
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin. From fun and adventure on the streets, boredom in the classroom to increasing isolation at home, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is the story of a boy who sees everything but understands less and less.


(Paperback)

By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9780099530398
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 5th August 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 1993

Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke's heroes are Father Damien (and the lepers), Geronimo and George Best. Paddy Clarke loves his Ma and Da, but it seems like they don't love each other, and Paddy wants to understand, but can't.

See also: Cal by Bernard MacLaverty


(Paperback)

By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9780099501374
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2007
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Ten years on from The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Booker Prize-winning author, Roddy Doyle, returns to one of his greatest characters, Paula Spencer.

Paula Spencer is turning forty-eight, and hasnt had a drink for four months and five days.


(Paperback)

By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9781509836864
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 20th April 2017
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A hilarious new Rover adventure for young readers from the Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle and illustrated by Chris Judge.


(Paperback)

By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9780749391683
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th December 1990
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Ably managed by Jimmy Rabbitte, brilliantly coached by Joey 'The Lips' Fagan, their twin assault on Motown and Barrytown takes them by leaps and bounds from the parish hall to the steps of the studio door.

But can The Commitments live up to their name

The bestselling book behind the long-running West End stage show.


(Paperback)

By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9781529111279
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)

By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9780099546894
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9780099507055
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A collection of stories which range from 'Guess Who's Coming to the Dinner', where a father who prides himself on his open-mindedness when his daughters talk about sex, is forced to confront his feelings when one of them brings home a black fella, to a ghost story, 'The Pram', about a Polish nanny who scares her charge's older sisters.


(Paperback)

By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9780099587132
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 26th June 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Longlisted for the 2015 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Jimmy Rabbitte is back.

The man who invented the Commitments back in the eighties is now forty-seven, with a loving wife, four kids ... He isnt dying, he thinks, but he might be.

Jimmy still loves his music, and he still loves to hustle.


(Paperback)

By: Roddy Doyle

ISBN: 9780749391256
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th June 1991
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Meet the Rabbitte family, motley bunch of loveable ne'er-do-wells whose everyday purgatory is rich with hangovers, dogshit and dirty dishes.

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