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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.

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?

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?

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

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).

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

A collection of stories which range from Guess Whos 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 ghost story, The Pram, about a Polish nanny who scares her charges older sisters.

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 Queens visit.

Just moved into 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 a pink shirt brings over his pint and sits down. He seems to know Victor's name and to remember him from school. Says his name is Fitzpatrick. Victor dislikes him on sight, dislikes too the memories that Fitzpatrick stirs up of five years being taught by the Christian Brothers.He prompts other memories too - of Rachel, his beautiful wife who became a celebrity, and of Victor's own small claim to fame, as the man who says the unsayable on the radio. But it's the memories of school, and of one particular Brother, that he cannot control - and which eventually threaten to destroy his sanity.

El señor Mack está a punto de meterse de pies a cabeza en un follón que no se merece. Está a punto de experimentar en carne propia.. . la venganza de las Risitas. ¿Por que quieren vengarse de el? ¿Quienes son candidatos a tal venganza? Las personas mayores que dicen que algo sabe a pollo cuando no es cierto, las que los culpan sabiendo que son inocentes, las que se comen el ultimo trozo de pizza sin preguntar si a alguien le apetece mas... ¿En que consiste la venganza? ¿Podra el señor Mack librarse de un castigo injusto? Leed este libro y lo averiguareis.

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.

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 already six-foot-two, a soldier in the Irish Citizen Army. A year later he's ready to die for Ireland again, a rebel, a Fenian and a killer. With his father's wooden leg as his weapon, Henry becomes a Republican legend - one of Michael Collins' boys, a cop killer, an assassin on a stolen bike.

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

Yeats is Dead begins with Roddy Doyle and ends with Frank McCourt. In between, thirteen other Irish writers spin an increasingly elaborate tale of murder, mayhem and literary shenanigans in present-d

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.