Родди Дойл – лучшие книги

На дворе 1968 год. Патрику "Падди" Кларку десять, он живет в Барритауне – пригороде Дублина – с ма и па, братом Синдбадом и двумя сестренками. Падди ходит в школу, гоняет в футбол на улицах и играет с друзьями в ковбоев. Любит индейца Джеронимо, святого отца Дамиана и его прокаженных и футболиста Джорджа Беста. Ненавидит зоопарк, поцелуи и своего младшего брата. А еще Падди чувствует, что его мир вот-вот изменится навсегда… Используя прием "потока сознания" и нетрадиционную структуру повествования без деления на главы, Дойл показывает не только непрерывно меняющийся мир ребенка со всеми взлетами и падениями, радостями и потерями, но и его…

Обыкновенный банковский служащий, живущий тихой, мирной жизнью с женой и детьми вдруг понимает, что очень хочет выпить крови...

Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul. Ably managed by Jimmy Rabbitte, brilliantly coached by Joey 'The Lips' Fagan, their twin assault on Motown and Barrytown takes them by leaps and bounds from the parish hall to the steps of the studio door. But can The Commitments live up to their name? The bestselling book behind the long-running West End stage show. 'Unstoppable fun. A big-hearted, big-night out' The Times

"Ссыльных" можно назвать неким продолжением жизни Джимми из романа «Группа Коммитментс», который в 1991-м был экранизирован The Commitments (Обязательства) режиссёром Аланом Паркером (Жизнь Дэвида Гейла, Стена и пр.)

From the Booker Prize winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Commitments: the story of an ordinary woman whose extraordinary character will stay with you long after reading. ‘He loved me and he beat me. I loved him and I took it. It’s as simple as that’ Paula Spencer is thirty-nine, the mother of four and learning to live without Charlo, her violent, abusive husband. Paula’s started drinking more and dreaming more, taking herself back to her contented childhood and audacious teenage years. Everything was better then, not least the music, the soundtrack to her romance with Charlo. As the past floats by and mingles with the…

In an eighteen-year playing career for Cobh Ramblers, Nottingham Forest, and Manchester United (under Sir Alex Ferguson) and Celtic, Roy Keane dominated every midfield he led to glory. Aggressive and highly competitive, his attitude helped him to excel as captain of Manchester United from 1997 until his departure in 2005. He played at an international level for nearly all of his career, representing the Republic of Ireland over fourteen years, mainly as team captain, until an incident with national coach Mick McCarthy resulted in Keane's walk-out from the 2002 World Cup. Since retiring as a player, Keane has managed Sunderland and Ipswich and become a notably contrarian pundit for ITV. He is assistant (to Martin O'Neill) manager of the Ireland team. The TV analyst reflects the manager, the player, and the man himself, the unique Roy Keane - Keano. As part of a tiny elite of football players, Roy Keane has lived and experienced what very few people could ever imagine. His status one of football's greatest stars is undisputed, but what of the challenges beyond the pitch? How did he succeed in coming to terms with life as a former Manchester United and Ireland leader and champion, reinvent himself as a broadcaster, and cope with the psychological struggles this entailed? This book is a personal odyssey, a blend of anecdote and reflection which re-evaluates the meaning of success. In following his personal struggle to reinvent himself, confronting a few demons along the way, THE SECOND HALF blends memoir and motivational writing in a manner which both disquiets and reassures in Roy Keane's original voice, in a stunning collaboration brilliantly captured with Man Booker Prize-winning writer Roddy Doyle.

Jimmy Rabbitte is unemployed and rapidly running out of money. His best friend Bimbo has been made redundant at the company where he has worked for many years. The two old friends are out of luck and out of options. That is, until Bimbo finds a dilapidated 'chipper van' and the pair decide to go into business...

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.

Pat had been best friends with Joe Murphy since they were kids. But years ago they had a fight. A big one, and they haven't spoken since - till the day before Joe's funeral.
What? On the day before his funeral Joe would be dead, wouldn't he?
Yes, he would...

Sharon Rabitte is single, pregnant, and living in Dublin, and as her stomach grows, her situation elicits a wide range of responses from her family and community.

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 Queen’s visit. But these men are not parochial or small-minded; one of them knows where to find the missing Colonel Gaddafi (he’s working as a cleaner at Dublin Airport); they worry about Greek debt, the IMF and the bondholders ( whatever they might be); in their fashion, they mourn the deaths of Whitney Houston, Donna Summer, Davy Jones and Robin Gibb; and they ask each…

Love and marriage, children and family, death and grief. Life touches everyone the same, but living under lockdown? It changes us alone.
A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged son, barred from his mother's funeral, wakes to an oncoming hangover of regret. Told with Doyle's signature warmth, wit and extraordinary eye for the richness that underpins the quiet of our lives, Life Without Children cuts to the heart of how we are all navigating loss, loneliness and the shifting of history underneath our feet.

Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub...
In 2012, Roddy Doyle showed us the world anew: through the back-and-forth of two Dublin pub-dwellers. They chewed the fat, set the world to rights, slagged each other unmercifully. And along the way, they chased the ebb and flow and stupidity of the year right to the bottom of their pints.
Today, they're still at it - even over Zoo

Jimmy Rabbitte is back. The man who in the 1980s formed the Commitments--a band composed of working class Irish youths whose mission was to bring soul music to Dublin--is now forty-seven, with a loving wife, four kids...and colon cancer. The news leaves him shattered and frightened--he isn't dying, he thinks, but he might be. Jimmy still loves his music, and he still loves to hustle--his new thing is tracking down old bands, and then finding the people who loved them enough to pay money for their resurrected singles and albums. As he battles his illness on his path through Dublin, he meets two of the Commitments--Outspan, whose own cancer is probably terminal, and Imelda Quirk, still as gorgeous as ever. He is reunited with his brother, learns to play the trumpet, reconnects with his children, decides to live more in the moment. "He had to pack the good days. But he'd started to love the race." This warm, funny novel is about friendship and family, about facing death and opting for life. It climaxes in one of the great passages in Doyle's fiction: four middle-aged men at Ireland's hottest rock festival watching Jimmy's son Marvin's band Moanin' at Midnight pretending to be Bulgarian and playing a song called'"I'm Going to Hell' that apparently hasn't been heard since 1932. Why? You'll have to read The Guts to find out.

Klug, feinfühlig, voller Humor: Kinderliteratur vom Feinsten Als Onkel Ben sein Geschäft aufgeben muss, ist den Kindern Gloria und Raymond klar, dass irgendetwas Schlimmes passiert sein muss. Denn Onkel Ben ist einfach nicht mehr der alte, von seiner Fröhlichkeit ist ihm nichts mehr geblieben. Die Großmutter behauptet, ein »schwarzer Hund«, der die ganze Stadt Dublin heimsucht, sei die Ursache des Übels. Gloria und Raymond beschließen, etwas zu unternehmen! Und so beginnt für die Kinder von Dublin ein wundervolles Abenteuer. Am Ende sind es die Tiere aus dem Zoo, die den Kindern helfen, das Ungeheuer für immer zu vertreiben.

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 of it. Gathering all their courage the children set out on a midnight quest to hunt down the Black Dog and chase it away. But they aren’t the only kids on the mission. Loads of other children are searching for it too, because the Black Dog is hounding lots of Dublin's adults. Together – and with the help of magical animals, birds and rodents – the children manage to corner the Black Dog . . . but will they have the courage and cleverness to destroy the frightening creature?

We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Utah desert to die - only to be discovered by John Ford, who's there shooting his latest Western. 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 latest film, John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, and the famous director himself, who 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 Ratheen as a school caretaker. When he is caught in a bomb blast, he loses his leg for the second time. He is claimed as a hero, and before long Henry will discover he has other uses too, when the peace process begins in deadly secrecy...

Praised as "a masterpiece" by the Washington Post, A Star Called Henry introduced the unforgettable Henry Smart and left Roddy Doyle's innumerable fans clamoring for more. Now, in his first novel set in America, Doyle delivers. Oh, Play

This special edition contains three classic Rover adventures. The stories included are 'The Giggler Treatment', 'Rover Saves Christmas', and 'The Meanwhile Adventures'.

Ten years after the bestselling The Woman Who Walked into Doors , Roddy Doyle resurrects one of his greatest characters When Roddy Doyle published The Woman Who Walked into Doors in 1996, critics and readers alike hailed