Roddy Doyle, Author Viking $24.95 (343p) ISBN 978-0-670-88757-6
Doyle just gets better and better. After the touching hijinks of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and the poignantly powerful The Woman Who Walked into Walls, he has embarked on nothing less than a trilogy that aims to tell the story of 20th-century Ireland...
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Roddy Doyle. Viking, $25.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-670-02287-8
The men in Doyle's sardonic and bittersweet collection are teetering on the edge of middle age, and while they're not always desperate to stay young, there's something terrifying about the future for each of them. Doyle (The Dead Republic) homes in...
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Roddy Doyle, Author Penguin Books $14 (320p) ISBN 978-0-14-017191-4
This final novel of Doyle's trilogy about the working-class Rabbitte family of Dublin (following The Commitments and The Snapper ) demonstrates a brash originality and humor that are both uniquely Irish and shrewdly universal. Shortlisted for the...
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Roddy Doyle, Author Viking Books $21 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-84587-3
The final novel of a trilogy about the working-class Rabbitte family of Dublin (following The Commitments and The Snapper ), shortlisted for last year's Booker Prize, demonstrates a brash originality and humor that are both uniquely Irish and...
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Roddy Doyle, Author Viking Books $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-670-86775-2
In Ireland, the euphemism ""she walked into a door"" is so loaded with grim implications of domestic abuse that it is usually whispered, not spoken. In this astonishing new work from Doyle (whose most recent novel, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, won the...
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Roddy Doyle, Author Penguin Books $15 (240p) ISBN 978-0-14-025512-6
Doyle's novel about a battered, working-class woman, PW wrote in a starred review, displays ""a perception that is rare [and] a compassion that is scorching."" (Jan.)
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Roddy Doyle, Author Penguin Books $15 (288p) ISBN 978-0-14-023390-2
Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel, told from the perspective of Irish, working-class 10-year-old Paddy Clarke, was a seven-week PW bestseller. (Jan.)
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Roddy Doyle, Author Penguin Books $15 (224p) ISBN 978-0-14-017167-9
This sketchy novel by Doyle ( The Van forthcoming from Viking; starred PW review, May 25), the second in his trilogy about a working-class Irish family, is almost all dialogue, which would be a clever device if the dialogue were not written in...
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Roddy Doyle, Author Vintage Contemporaries $13.95 (165p) ISBN 978-0-679-72174-1
``Dublin soul'' is what the lads call it. Obsessed with James Brown, Percy Sledge and other rhythm-and-blues greats from across the ocean, young Jimmy Rabbitte organizes the ``world's hardest working band,'' made up of fellow Dubliners, and sets out
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Roddy Doyle. Abrams/Amulet, $16.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-4197-0168-9
Doyle revisits the subject of his picture book, Her Mother’s Face (2008), with this trim novel about a comforting ghost who helps a family deal with the loss of a loved one. Mary O’Hara, 12, hates her daily trips to the Dublin hospital where her...
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Roddy Doyle, Author Viking $20.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-85345-8
Winning the 1993 Booker Prize propelled Doyle's fourth novel from its original spring publication to a December issue date. While retaining the candid pictures of family life, the swift, energetic prose, the ear-perfect vernacular dialogue and the...
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Roddy Doyle, Author . Viking $26.95 (329p) ISBN 978-0-670-02177-2
Doyle digs into the modern history of Ireland in the concluding volume to the life story of Henry Smart, a teenage Sinn Fein triggerman first encountered in A Star Called Henry
. Here, an aging Henry must preserve his own legend, which is taken away
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Roddy Doyle. Viking, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-01643-3
Booker Prize–winner Doyle returns with this hilarious and tender pseudo-sequel to The Commitments. Jimmy Rabbitte—last seen as the brash, young manager of the Commitments—is now middle-aged. He’s still kicking around Dublin, married, with four kids,
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Roddy Doyle, Author . Viking $24.95 (242p) ISBN 978-0-670-01845-1
Doyle's dynamic first collection of short stories offers light and heartfelt perspectives on the effects of immigration on Irish culture. Originally serialized for a Dublin newspaper, all eight stories draw from the conceit of “someone...
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Roddy Doyle, Author . Scholastic/Levine $16.99 (211p) ISBN 978-0-439-02356-6
Doyle (The Meanwhile Adventures
) intertwines two story lines about children in search of missing mothers in an intriguing if hard to categorize novel. Gráinne's mother, Rosemary, left her marriage, her daughter, and Dublin for America...
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Roddy Doyle, Author . Viking $24.95 (281p) ISBN 978-0-670-03816-9
The heroine of Doyle's 1996 bestseller, The Woman Who Walked into Doors
, returns long widowed (abusive husband Charlo having been killed fleeing the Irish police) and four months sober. Those absences and old relationships mark the year we...
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Roddy Doyle, Author . Viking $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-03361-4
Doyle stumbles somewhat in this sequel to his excellent 1999 bestseller, A Star Called Henry.
Beginning with Irish revolutionary Henry Smart's arrival in New York City in 1924, the story follows Henry's subsequent adventures in advertising,
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Roddy Doyle, Author . Viking $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-670-03204-4
While Doyle is a well-regarded screenwriter (The Snapper; The Commitments) and novelist (Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha), here he seems to have done little more than hold the microphone, as this is actually his parents' book. Such nonintervention might...
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Roddy Doyle, Author, Roddy Doyle, Read by Penguin Audiobooks $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-180082-0
Hardy Irishman Doyle delivers his prose in a mellifluous outpouring, gentle in its use of language but harsh in its cutting observations. The beauty of Doyle's words, heightened in spoken presentation, is especially affecting in the opening section,
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Roddy Doyle, read by Laurence Kinlan. Penguin Audio, library edition, unabridged, eight CDs, 10.25 hrs., $59.99 ISBN 978-1-62923-180-8;
This sequel to Doyle’s The Commitments finds Jimmy Rabbitte approaching 50 and facing all the standard challenges of middle age, with four kids and a wife. However, when Rabbitte is diagnosed with cancer, he is sent down a path of physical and...
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Roddy Doyle, illus. by Emily Hughes. Abrams/Amulet, $16.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4197-1479-5
Saint Patrick may have rid Ireland of snakes, but it takes an army of children to chase off a citywide case of the blues. Expanded from a 2011 short story that Doyle (A Greyhound of a Girl) wrote for the organizers of Dublin’s St. Patrick’s Day...
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Roddy Doyle, Author, Freya Blackwood, Illustrator , illus. by Freya Blackwood. Scholastic/Levine $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-439-81501-7
In his first picture book, Doyle (Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
; The Giggler Treatment
) draws on magical realism to leaven a story about grief. It begins in the language of a modernized fairy tale: “There was once this girl and her name was Siobh&aac
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Roddy Doyle, Author, Brian Ajhar, Illustrator Scholastic $16.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-439-66210-9
The Mack family from The Giggler Treatment returns in The Meanwhile Adventures by Roddy Doyle, illus. by Brian Ajhar. This time the Slugs of Dublin don crash helmets in their attempt to take over the world (""No legs good! Two legs bad!""), Mister...
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Roddy Doyle, Author, Brian Ajhar, Illustrator Arthur A. Levine Books $14.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-439-16299-9
In his first story for children, Booker Prize winner Doyle (Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha) pens a robustly silly romp served up with a generous helping of Irish cheek. At the outset of the tale, Mister Mack, a biscuit tester, is about to step in ""dog poo."
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Roddy Doyle, Author, Brian Ajhar, Illustrator , illus. by Brian Ajhar. Scholastic/Levine $14.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-439-30530-3
The cast of The Giggler Treatment
makes a return engagement for the holidays in this invitingly loopy escapade. Rudolph languishes with the flu and Santa appeals to canine Rover and his young owners to take over for the evening. Doyle addresses...
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Roddy Doyle, Author, Brian Ajhar, Illustrator . Scholastic $3.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-439-16300-2
Mister Mack is about to step in "dog poo" at the outset of this "robustly silly romp served up with a generous helping of Irish cheek," said PW. "Displaying a gleefully sadistic sense of timing, Doyle draws out the suspense to...
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Roddy Doyle. Viking, $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7352-2444-5
The latest novel from the Booker Prize–winning author of Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha explores the intricate psychology and history of a failed Irish writer who has recently separated from his famous wife. Having rented a cheap apartment in the unnamed...
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Roddy Doyle. Viking, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-984880-45-1
This witty, satisfying novel about male friendship, aging, and guilt from Doyle (A Star Called Henry) dramatizes language’s inadequacies when it comes to affairs of the heart. “The words are letting me down,” says Dubliner Joe to Davy, his old...
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Roddy Doyle. Viking, $25 (192p) ISBN 978-0-593-30056-5
Doyle’s accomplished collection (after the novel Love) probes the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on a series of marriages. A mug angrily thrown at a wall during an argument in “Box Sets” turns out to be the last straw for a recently laid-off...
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Roddy Doyle. Viking, $29 (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-83168-7
Booker Prize winner Doyle’s third Paula Spencer novel (after 1996’s The Woman Who Walked into Doors and 2006’s Paula Spencer) is an emotionally raw mother-daughter drama. Paula, a widow in her mid-60s, who’s in recovery for alcoholism, returns home...
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