Roddy Doyle

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 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.Smile has all the features for which Roddy Doyle has become famous: the razor-sharp dialogue, the humour, the superb evocation of childhood - but this is a novel unlike any he has written before. When you finish the last page you will have been challenged to re-evaluate everything you think you remember so clearly.

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

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 theIrish 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 don't give out first).

El famoso irlandés Reserva galardonado ha inmigrantes de una revista escrito cuentos cortos, muchos de ellos divertidos, otros muy emotivo. Encontramos incluir Jimmy Rabbitte de nuevo, el fundador de los compromisos, con una nueva banda llamada deportados. Un nuevo sesgo en la experiencia inmigrante, algo de importancia cada vez mayor en la actual Irlanda. Roddy Doyle: un magnífico escritor de cuentos cortos!

Roddy Doyle´s three fabulously funny children´s books about Rover the Wonder Dog and the eccentric Mack family now collected in one volume. The poo is about to hit the shoe...

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 children, Jack and Leanne, are still living with her. They're grand kids, but she worries about Leanne. Paula still works as a cleaner, but all the others doing the job now seem to come from Eastern Europe, and the checkout girls in the supermarket are Nigerian. You can get a cappuccino in the café, and her sister Carmel is thinking of buying a holiday home in Bulgaria. Paula's got four grandchildren now; two of them are called Marcus and Sapphire. Reviewing The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Mary Gordon wrote: 'It is the triumph of this novel that Mr Doyle - entirely without condescension - shows the inner life of this battered house-cleaner to be the same stuff as that of the heroes of the great novels of Europe.' Her words hold true for this new novel. Paula Spencer is brave, tenacious and very funny. The novel that bears her name is another triumph for Roddy Doyle.

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.

Roddy Doyle's 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.

At the end of Oh, Play That Thing, the second volume of Roddy Doyle's trilogy about Henry Smart, Henry, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawls into the Utah desert to die - only to be discovered by John Ford, who's there shooting his latest Western. Ford recognizes a fellow Irish rebel and determines to turn Henry's story into a film. He appoints him 'IRA consultant' on his new film, The Quiet Man. The Dead Republic opens in 1951. Henry is returning to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922. With him are the stars of Ford's film, John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, and the famous director himself, 'Pappy', who in series of intense, highly charged meetings has tried to suck the soul out of Henry and turn it into Hollywood gold-dust. Ten years later Henry is in Dublin, working in Barrytown as a school janitor, feared a little by the teachers but loved by the boys, who call him 'Hoppy Henry' on account of his wooden leg. When Henry is caught in a bomb blast, that wooden leg gets left behind in the debris. He wakes in hospital to find himself a hero: the old IRA veteran who's lost his leg to a UVF bomb. It doesn't take long before the Provos come calling. They need men like Henry. They wheel him out at funerals and rallies, a heroic veteran of 1916. Henry is to find he will have other uses too, when the peace process begins in deadly secrecy. In three brilliant novels, A Star Called Henry, Oh, Play That Thing and The Dead Republic, Roddy Doyle has told the whole history of Ireland in the twentieth century. And in the person of his hero, he has created one of the great characters of modern fiction.

En Agosto de 1940, procedente de un campo de prisioneros de Prusia Oriental, llegó a la estación de Mauthausen un tren de transporte de ganado. Habían sido tres días de inhumano viaje, rodeados de cuerpos inertes por asfixia. Los 300 pasajeros del tren de la muerte fueron conducidos a pie por una senda hacia un alcor en el que se adivinaban unos muros de piedra blanca. No eran judíos, no eran gitanos, ni tan siquiera alemanes contrarios a Hitler. Eran republicanos españoles. Pack: Incluye los premiados documentales: 'EL TREN DE LA MEMORIA', 'LÁGRIMAS ROJAS'

It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. He catches the attention of the mobsters who run the district and soon there are eyes on his back and men in the shadows. It is time to leave, for another America- Chicago is wild and new, and newest of all is the music. Furious, wild, happy music played by a man with a trumpet and bleeding lips called Louis Armstrong. His music is everywhere, coming from every open door, every phonograph. But Armstrong is a prisoner of his colour; there are places a black man cannot go, things he cannot do. Armstrong needs a man, a white man, and the man he chooses is Henry Smart.

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.

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