"Bullfighting" moves from classrooms to graveyards, local pubs to bullrings; features an array of men at their working day and at rest, taking stock and reliving past glories. Each is concerned with loss in different ways - of their place in the world, of power, virility, love - of the boom days and[...]

Born in the Dublin slums of 1901, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk he's out robbing and begging, often cold and always hungry, but a prince of the streets. By Easter Monday, 1916, he's fourteen years old and al[...]

This title tells the story, laregely in their own words, of the lives of the author's parents. They remember every detail of their Dublin childhoods - the people, politics, idyllic times in the Wexford countryside for Ita, and Rory's apprenticeship as a printer.[...]

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 chil[...]

We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Utah desert to die - only to be discovered by John Ford, who's there shooting his latest Western. The Dead Republic opens in 1951. Henry is returning to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922. [...]

Deals with the Rabbitte family from Barrytown, Dublin. In this title, we follow the rapid rise of Jimmy Rabbitte's soul band, the Commitments, and their equally rapid fall; and Sharon Rabbitte's attempts to keep the identity of her unborn child's father a secret, amid intense speculation from her fa[...]

The bestselling author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha presents a one-volume edition of his celebrated trio of novels. Doyle's comic novels, The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van, depict the daily life and times of the Rabbitte family in working-class Dublin[...]

As a small boy at Joe Gargery's forge, Pip meets two people who will affect his whole life - an escaped convict he is forced to help, and the eccentric Miss Haversham, whose beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella young Pip adores. But when a secret benefactor pays for him to go to London to become a g[...]

Picking up nearly ten years after the tale, The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Dublin widow Paula begins her fifth month of sobriety while endeavoring to raise the two children who are still at home, an endeavor during which she struggles to make ends meet, attends parent-teacher conferences, and deve[...]

" No one] can match Doyle for the fluency with which he tacks back and forth between the hilarious and the heartbreaking." --"The New York Times Book Review"Roddy Doyle has won acclaim for his wry wit, his uncanny ear, and his remarkable ability to fully capture the voices and hearts of his characte[...]

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[...]

Pat had been best friends with Joe Murphy since they were kids. But years ago they had a fight. A big one, and they haven't spoken since - till the day before Joe's funeral. What? On the day before his funeral Joe would be dead, wouldn't he? Yes, he would...Roddy Doyle's first book for the Quick Rea[...]