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This is the heart-rending story of a woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after a violent, abusive marriage and a worsening drink problem. Paula Spencer recalls her contented childhood, the audacity she learned as a teenager, the exhilaration of her romance with Charlo and the marriage to him that left her powerless. Capturing both her vulnerability and her strength, Doyle gives Paula a voice that is real and unforgettable.

Meet the Rabbitte family, motley 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 is forced to rally together and discover the strangeness of intimacy. But the question remains: which friend of the family is the father of Sharon's child?

Roddy Doyles Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin. From fun and adventure on the streets, boredom in the classroom to increasing isolation at home, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha is the story of a boy who sees everything but understands less and less.

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. On his path through Dublin he meets two of the Commitments - Outspan, whose own illness is probably terminal, and Imelda Quirk, still as gorgeous as ever. This warm, funny novel is about friendship and family, about facing death and opting for life. It includes the short story Jimmy Jazz.

Tá Danny Ó Murchú ag dul le bualadh lena dheartháir Jimmy. Ní fhaca siad a chéile le níos mó ná fiche bliain. Ar an mbealach chuig an gcruinniú, is cuimhin le Danny na tréimhsí maithe agus na drochthreimhsi, an spraoi agus na troideanna agus an t-achrann mor amhain a scar iad. An dtroidfidh siad aris no an mbeidh siad ina gcairde mar ba ghnath leo a bheith? Nil a fhios ag Danny.Danny Murphy is going to meet his brother, Jimmy. They havent seen each other in over twenty years. On the way to the meeting, Danny remembers the good times and the bad times, the fun and the fights - and the one big row that drove them apart. Will they fight again or will they become the friends they used to be? Danny doesnt know.

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.

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).

Faltan muy pocas horas para el día de Navidad y Rudolf, el reno, está de baja por enfermedad. A Papá Noël no le queda más remedio que acudir al único individuo con los reflejos, el talento, el atract

Una novela escrita por quince autores irlandeses, es un proyecto para recaudar fondos originados y desarrollado por el Fondo Educativo de Amnistía Internacional. En estos últimos años, los miembros fundadores del fondo han organizado dos grandes comedias en Dublin, posteriormente televisadas por la ITV...

El autor de Café irlandés inicia con esta novela, una triología sobre la historia de su país: Irlanda. Su protagonista es un joven llamado Henry Smart, un desheredado que acabará integrándose en las filas del IRA. Son los inicios el siglo XX y al joven Henry le aguardan nuevas y sorprendentes peripecias.

Desde su rocambolesco nacimiento y su infancia en las calles de Dublín a su participación, como soldado y amante, en la revolución irlandesa, Henry Smart describe su despertar a una vida de aventuras. Mezcla de relato epico, historia de amor y retrato de la Irlanda moderna, Una estrella llamada Henry constituye una gran novela picaresca rebosante de momentos divertidos y conmovedores.Roddy Doyle (Dublin, 1958), de voz inimitable y genuinamente irlandesa, es autor de una solida obra literaria de la que destacan La furgoneta, The commitments o su novel Paddy Clarke, ja ,ja ,ja, que merecio el Premio Brooker 1993. Varias de sus novelas han sido llevadas al cine.