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The Giggler Treatment by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
Mr. Mack is about to step foot-first into a fate he doesn't deserve. This hilarious tale begins with a simple man, Mr. Mack, heading for his job as a cookie taster...but also heading for a terrible (and awfully smelly) fate. Is it an accident? Or are the mischievous Gigglers (elfin creatures who punish ...Show more
The Giggler Treatment by Roddy Doyle; Brian Ajhar (Illustrator)
Category: Junior Fiction
A thoroughly silly tale that reveals the truth of what happens to grownups who are mean to children
The Guts by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
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. He isn't dying, he thinks, but he might be. Jimmy still loves his music, and he still loves to hustle - his new thing is finding old bands and then fin ...Show more
The Guts by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
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. He isn't dying, he thinks, but he might be. Jimmy still loves his music, and he still loves to hustle - his new thing is finding old bands and then fin ...Show more
The Meanwhile Adventures (Rover Adventures) by Roddy Doyle
Category: Children's | Series: Rover Adventures
Mr Mack's inventing career has got off to a bad start \- he's been arrested! It's up to Jimmy, Robbie, Kayla and Rover the wonder-dog to: - Rescue Mr Mack from prison - Avoid the orphan catchers - Save the world from an army of stroppy slugs Will they succeed? There's only one way to find out\.
The Snapper by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
Rabbitte family is a bunch of loveable ne'er-do-wells whose everyday purgatory is rich with hangovers, dogshit and dirty dishes. When the older sister announces her pregnancy, the family are forced to rally together and discover the strangeness of intimacy. But the question remains: which friend of the ...Show more
The Snapper by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Barrytown Trilogy Ser.
Twenty-year-old Sharon Rabbitte is pregnant. She's also unmarried, living at home, working in a grocery store, and keeping the father's identity a secret. Her own father, Jimmy Sr., is shocked by the news. Her mother says very little. Her friends and neighbors all want to know whose "snapper" Sharon is ...Show more
The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
From the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, the heartrending story of a brave and tenacious housewife Look for Roddy Doyle's new novel, Smile, coming in October of 2017 Paula Spencer is a thirty-nine-year-old working-class woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after marriage to ...Show more
Two More Pints by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
Two men meet for a pint - or two - in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights, curse the ref, say a last farewell...In this second collection of comic dialogues Doyle's drinkers ponder: a topless Kate Middleton; Barack and Michelle Obama ('fuckin' gorgeous'); David Beckham ('Would you t ...Show more
Two Pints by Roddy Doyle
Category: Fiction
Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights, take the piss. They talk about their wives, their kids, their kids' pets, their football teams and - this being Ireland in 2011-12 - about the euro, the crash, the presidential election, the Queen's visit. But these men ...Show more