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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE - the bittersweet and funny take of a boy growing up in north Dublin. Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke lights fires. Paddy Clarke's name is written in wet cement all over Barrytown, north Dublin. Paddy Clarke's heroes are Father Damien (and the lepers), Geronimo and ...Show more
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
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 Hais the story of a boy who sees everything but understand ...Show more
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
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 underst ...Show more
Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
Begins on the eve of Paula's forty-ninth birthday. She hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest children, Jack and Leanne, are still living with her. They're grand kids, but she worries about Leanne. Paula still works as a cleaner, but all the others doing the job now seem to come ...Show more
Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
When we first met Paula Spencer - in "The Woman Who Walked into Doors" - she was thirty-nine, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggling to hold her family together. Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paula's forty-eighth birthday. She hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest childr ...Show more
Rory & Ita by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
Roddy Doyle's first non-fiction book, tells -largely in their own words - the story of his parents' lives from their first memories to the present. Born in 1923 and 1925 respectively, they met at a New Year's Eve dance in 1947 and married in 1951. They remember every detail of their Dublin childhoods -t ...Show more
Rory & Ita by Roddy Doyle
Category: Biography Memoir
The story of Roddy Doyle's parents, how they met at a dance in 1947 and married in 1951. They recall details of their Dublin childhoods - the people, the politics, the Wexford countryside; and through their eyes, the intensely Catholic society of their youth transforms to today's vibrant Ireland. Hardba ...Show more
Rover Saves Christmas by Roddy Doyle & Brian Ajhar
Category: Children's
Christmas is under threat! Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer only works one night a year - but, unfortunately, he's chosen Christmas Eve to take a sickie. When your star sleigh-puller is stable-ridden with the flu, what do you do? You call Rover... Join Rover, Robbie, Jimmy and Kayla, and all the other star ...Show more
Rover and the Big Fat Baby by Roddy Doyle
Category: Children's | Series: Rover
A hilarious new Rover adventure for young readers from the Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle and illustrated by Chris Judge.The BFB (Big Fat Baby) is missing!Can Rover the wonder dog and his little nephew Messi (who is actually very tidy) track her down?While Rover and co. are hot on the trail of ...Show more
Rover and the Big Fat Baby by Roddy Doyle
Category: Picture Books
It's the summer holidays and Rover is busy searching for poo. He works for The Gigglers, small furry creatures who make sure grown-ups are nice to their kids. If they aren't, they get the Giggler Treatment - a smelly, squishy present on the end of their shoe, which is where Rover comes in. But Rover and ...Show more
STAR CALLED HENRY by RODDY DOYLE
Category: Fiction
Born at the beginning of the twentieth century, Henry Smart lives through the evolution of modern Ireland, and in this extraordinary novel he brilliantly tells his story. From his own birth and childhood on the streets of Dublin to his role as soldier (and lover) in the Irish Rebellion, Henry recounts h ...Show more