Roddy Doyle
1) Smile
Author
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Just moved in to 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 and pink shirt brings over his pint and sits down. He seems to know Victor's name and to remember him from school. Says his name is Fitzpatrick. Victor dislikes him on sight, dislikes too the memories that Fitzpatrick stirs up of five years being taught...
Author
Series
Paula Spencer volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
At sixty-six, Paula Spencer - mother, grandmother, widow, survivor - is finally living her life. A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys, a man - Joe - with whom she shares what she wants, friends who see her for who she is, and four grown children. Despite its ghosts, Paula has started to push her past aside. That is until Paula?s eldest, Nicola, turns up on her doorstep. Independent, a loving wife and mother, ?a success? - Nicola is suddenly determined...
7) The snapper
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
This story introduces the Rabbitte family, a motley bunch of loveable ne'er-do-wells. When the older sister announces her pregnancy, the family are forced to rally round and discover the strangeness of intimacy.
16) The guts
Author
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Rabbitte is back. The man who invented the Commitments back in the eighties is now 47, with a loving wife, four kids - and bowel cancer. Jimmy still loves his music, and he still loves to hustle - his new thing is finding old bands and then finding the people who loved them enough to pay money for their resurrected singles and albums. On his path through Dublin he meets two of the Commitments - Outspan, whose own illness is probably terminal,...
17) Dead man talking
Author
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Pat had been best friends with Joe Murphy since they were kids. But years ago they had a big fight, and they haven't spoken since - until the day before Joe's funeral. What? On the day before his funeral Joe would be dead, wouldn't he? Yes, he would.
18) The Commitments
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
The Commitments are a band with a mission - bringing soul to Dublin. Led by Jimmy Rabitte, a man with ambition, coached by Joey 'The Lips' Fagan, an old man with a trumpet, protected by Mickah Wallace, owner of the most feared forehead in Barrytown.
19) Brilliant
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Unabridged edition.
Language
English
Description
When Uncle Ben's Dublin business fails, it's clear to Gloria and Raymond that something is wrong. He just isn't his usual cheerful self. So when the children overhear their granny saying that the Black Dog has settled on Ben's back and he won't be okay until it's gone, they decide they're going to get rid of it. Gathering all their courage the children set out on a midnight quest to hunt down the Black Dog and chase it away.
20) Two for the road
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Two men meet for a pint - or three - in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights and mourn friends gone: David Bowie, Prince, Princess Leia, and Young Frankenstein. Around them the world of Brexit, Trump, and referendums storm, but some things - good things - never change. Inspired by the last five years of news, Roddy Doyle's 'Two for the Road' offers a strong brew of Roddy Doyle's comic genius - to be downed in one riotous sitting,...