Roddy Doyle

A brilliant, oneofakind writer DAVID NICHOLLSAt sixtysix, Paula Spencer mother, grandmother, widow, survivor is finally living her life.A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys, a man Joe with whom she shares what she wants, friends who see her for who she is, and four grown children. Despite its ghosts, Paula has started to push her past aside.That is until Paulas eldest, Nicola, turns up on her doorstep. Independent, a loving wife and mother, a success Nicola is suddenly determined to leave it all behind.Over the next few days, as Nicola gradually confides in Paula the secret that unleashed this moment of crisis, they find themselves embracing the bruised but beautiful symmetry of what each means to the other.

¿Que quienes son las risitas y que es El Metodo Chof?Muy sencillo: las Risitas son unos seres diminutos y sigilosos, que cuando se rien hacen ji ji ji para no llamar la atencion de nadie. Siguen a los ninos para asegurarse de que los adultos los tratan bien. Y si algun adulto se porta mal... le aplican el Metodo Chof. Si mandan a los ninos a la cama sin cenar, o los asustan, les aplican el Metodo Chof. Si no son sinceros con los ninos, les aplican el Metodo Chof. Uf, que crueles son los adultos a veces... ¿verdad?Pero ¿en que consiste el Metodo Chof? Pues eso es lo mejor de todo, pero no podemos contarlo aqui, las Risitas no nos lo perdonarian. Digamos sencillamente que el CHOF del Metodo es el sonido que hace el pie al pisar una enorme y pringosa... ejem.Mejor abrid el libro. Y mirad por donde pisais.

Meet Charlie Savage: a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, a drinking buddy whos realized that hes been a woman all along Compiled here for the first time is a whole years worth of Roddy Doyles hilariousseries for the Irish Independent. Giving a unique voice to the everyday, he draws a portrait of a man funny, loyal, somewhat bewildered trying to keep pace with the modern world (if his knees dont give out first).

Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul. Ably managed by Jimmy Rabitte, brilliantly coached by Joel 'The Lips' Fagan, their twin assault on Motown and Barrytown takes them by leaps and bounds from Paris Hall to immortality on vinyl. But can The Commitments live up to their name?

By the bestselling author of THE COMMITMENTS and THE SNAPPER,THE VAN is a tender tale of male friendship, swimming in grease and stained with ketchup.

Two old friends reconnect in Dublin for a dramatic, revealing evening of drinking and storytelling in this winning new novel from the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha HaOne summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant.Drinking pals back in their youth, now married and with grown up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he needs to tell Davy, and Davy has a sorrow he wants to keep from Joe. Both are not the men they used to be.Joe has left his wife and family for another woman, Jessica. Davy knows her too, or should - she was the girl of their dreams four decades earlier, the girl with the cello in George's pub. As Joe's story unfolds across Dublin - pint after pint, pub after pub - so too do the memories of what eventually drove Davy from Ireland: his first encounter with Faye, the lively woman who would become his wife; his father's somber disapproval; the pained spaces left behind when a parent dies.As the two friends try to reconcile their versions of the past over the course of one night, Love offers a delightfully comic yet moving portrait of the many forms love can take throughout our lives.

Un policía bisoño se presenta de súbito en casa de Paula: su marido, Charlo, ha muerto a manos de las fuerzas del orden. Charlo era guapo, fascinante, el preferido de todas las amigas de Paula. Y un chulo. Es la vida de Paula, en nítidas escenas que cortan el aliento por su precisión y su realismo. Es el martirio de Paula, una mujer sencilla y soñadora, bajo el poder de un marido brutal. Palizas, lesiones graves, torturas. Visitas a Urgencias. La excusa de costumbre: «Me he dado un golpe con la puerta». Un aborto. Los médicos tratan a Paula con desdén. Una mañana, Paula coincide con Nicola, su hija, en la cocina. Charlo la mira de un modo extraño. De repente, Paula comprende. Entre ambas mujeres, a golpe de sartén, consiguen echar a Charlo a la calle. Han hecho, por fin, algo bueno. Una novela absolutamente extraordinaria, que viene a confirmar la estatura literaria de uno de los grandes novelistas irlandeses de nuestro tiempo.

Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle s spectacular return to his iconic heroine Paula Spencer The undisputed laureate of ordinary lives SUNDAY TIMES Brilliant passionate funny and humane DAVID NICHOLLS At sixty six Paula Spencer mother grandmother widow addict survivor is finally living her life A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys a man Joe with whom she shares what she wants friends who see her for who she is and four grown children now with families and petty dramas the likes of which Paula could only have hoped for Despite its ghosts Paula has started to push her past aside That is until Paula s eldest Nicola turns up on her doorstep Independent affluent a loving wife and mother a success Nicola is suddenly determined to leave it all behind Over the next few days as Nicola gradually confides in Paula the secret that unleashed this moment of crisis mother and daughter find themselves untangling anecdotes jokes memory and revelation to confront the bruised but beautiful symmetry of what each means to the other Paula Spencer is a hymn to female generosity the ordinary discardable kind that keeps the world turning Reading her voice for the first time sent a pang of recognition through me followed by love ANNE ENRIGHT

While Tom and Johnny are on a husky safari in Finland their half sisterGrainne stays behind to face the mother who abandoned her But Tom and Johnny are too caught up in their adventure to thinkof home until they find themselves lost in the snow strugglingto survive

En 1924 Henry Smart deja atrás una Irlanda católica y caótica para adentrarse en el loco y fascinante mundo que representaba Estados Unidos en los años veinte. Un universo lleno de licor ilegal, sexo y jazz. Henry pasa de traficar con brebajes en Manhattan a sobrevivir en una Chicago azotada por las mafias, para finalmente convertirse en el hombre de confianza de Louis Armstrong. Una fascinante novela que parece salida de la pantalla del mejor cine negro.

For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for IMetro Eireann/I, a magazine 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 -~Guess Who's Coming to the Dinner', where a father who prides himself on his open-mindedness when his daughters talk about sex, is forced to confront his feelings when one of them brings home a black fella, to a terrifying ghost story, -~The Pram', in which a Polish nanny grows impatient with her charge's older sisters and decides -" in a phrase she has learnt -" to -~scare them shitless'. Most of the stories are very funny -" in -~57% Irish' Ray Brady tries to devise a test of Irishness by measuring reactions to Robbie Keane's goal against Germany in the 2002 World Cup, IRiverdance/I and -~Danny Boy' -" others deeply moving. And best of all, in the title story itself,Jimmy Rabbitte, the man who formed The Commitments, decides it's time to find a new band, and this time no White Irish need apply. Multicultural to a fault, The Deportees specialise not in soul music this time, but the songs of Woody Guthrie.

Together in one volume, this book contains Roddy Doyle's trilogy about the Rabbitte family of Barrytown, north Dublin. The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van, which was shortlisted for the 1991 Boo