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Her Mother's Face by Roddy Doyle
Category: Children's
Doyle's debut picture book is perfect for anyone who has loved, lost, or known the value of family. This powerful story explores grief and the healing power of laughter, with Doyle's unmistakable insight and gentle humor. Full color.
Life Without Children - Stories by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short storiesA brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short stories Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same ...Show more
Life Without Children: Stories by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short stories Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone. In these ten, beautifully moving short stories mostly writ ...Show more
Love by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
Davy and Joe have got a lot to catch up on. Drinking pals back in their Dublin days, Davy rarely sees Joe for a pint anymore - maybe one or two when Davy's over from England to check in on his elderly father. But tonight, one pint will turn to three, and then five as Joe recounts a secret, leading the ...Show more
Love by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
'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 children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he has to tell Davy, and Davy, a ...Show more
Love by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
A masterful novel about coming-of-age and finding love in Dublin's pubs, from the Booker-winning Roddy Doyle'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 children, ...Show more
Oh, Play That Thing by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, fails on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. He catches the attention of the mobsters who run the district and soon ther ...Show more
Oh, Play That Thing (Volume 2 The Last Roundup) by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
On the last page of A Star Called Henry, we left Henry Smart on the run from his Republican paymasters, the men for whom he had perpetrated murder and mayhem. He flees from Dublin to Liverpool and from thence to Ellis Island, New York, America. And this is where Oh, Play That Thing begins... It's 1924, ...Show more
PAULA SPENCER by DOYLE RODDY
Category: Fiction
"Pure, undiluted pleasure" ("The Washington Post") from Booker Prize- winning author Roddy Doyle Roddy Doyle 's beautifully wrought tale revisits the Dublin housewife-heroine of his earlier acclaimed novel, "The Woman Who Walked Into Doors." Paula is now forty-seven, her abusive husband is long dead, a ...Show more