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A Greyhound of a Girl by Roddy Doyle
$24.99 AUD
Category: Teenage
This is a pre-read / used book. Fair condition - yellowing and foxing to edges of pages. Mary O'Hara is a sharp and cheeky 12-year-old Dublin schoolgirl who is bravely facing the fact that her beloved Granny is dying. But Granny can't let go of life, and when a mysterious young woman turns up in M ...Show more
Brilliant by Roddy Doyle
$19.99 AUD
Category: Young Readers
When Uncle Ben's Dublin business fails, it's clear to Gloria and Raymond that something is wrong. He just isn't his usual cheerful self. So when the children overhear their granny saying that the Black Dog has settled on Ben's back and he won't be OK until it's gone, they decide they're going to get rid ...Show more
Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle
$29.95 AUD
$37.99 (21% off)
Category: Fiction
The men in Bullfighting are each concerned with loss in different ways - of their place in their world, of power, virility, love - of the boom days and the Celtic Tiger. 'The stories, his memories, were wearing out' the narrator of the title story thinks, 'and there was nothing new replacing them.' The ...Show more
Charlie Savage by Roddy Doyle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Meet Charlie Savage: a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, a drinking buddy who's realized that he's been a woman all along... Compiled here for the first time is a whole year's worth of Roddy Doyle's hilariousseries for the Irish Independent. Giving a unique voice ...Show more
Her Mother's Face by Roddy Doyle
$24.99 AUD
$33.00 (24% off)
Category: Children's Hardback
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
$29.99 AUD
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
$19.99 AUD
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
Love by Roddy Doyle
$29.99 AUD
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
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
$19.99 AUD
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
Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle
$24.95 AUD
$26.99 (7% off)
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
Smile by Roddy Doyle
$29.99 AUD
$35.00 (14% off)
Category: Fiction
Just moved in to a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly's pub for a pint, a slow one. One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and pink shirt brings over his pint and sits down. He seems to know Victor's name and to remember him from ...Show more
The Deportees by Roddy Doyle
$32.95 AUD
$34.99 (5% off)
Category: Fiction
For the past few years, Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for "Metro Eireann", a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories took a new slant on the immigrant experience, something of increasing relevance and importance in today's Ireland. The stories range from "Gu ...Show more