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Roddy Doyle Collection
RODDY DOYLE was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of eleven acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van and Smile, two collections of short stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
THE WOMEN BEHIND THE DOOR - OUT SEPTEMBER 12th 2024
Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle’s spectacular return to his iconic character, Paula Spencer, whom he originated in the ground-breaking The Woman Who Walked Into Doors and its follow-up, Paula Spencer.
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.
The next sequence in the life of Roddy Doyle’s quietly remarkable, ever- memorable Paula Spencer, The Women Behind the Door is a delicately devastating portrait of shame and the inescapable shadow it casts over families.
Roddy Doyle: Charlie Savage [2020] paperback
€11.99Meet Charlie Savage.Charlie is a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, a drinking buddy who's realised that he's been a woman all along ... Compiled here for...
Roddy Doyle: WOMAN WHO WALKED INTO DOORS [1997] paperback
€5.99 – €13.00From 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...
Roddy Doyle: Oh, Play That Thing [2005] paperback
€4.99 – €13.00It'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...
Roddy Doyle: Smile [2018] paperback
€4.99From the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, a bold, haunting novel about the uncertainty of memory and how we contend with the past."It's his...
Roddy Doyle: Life Without Children: The exhilarating new short story collection from the Booker Prize-winning author [2022] paperback
€11.99Love 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,...
Roddy Doyle: Love: Roddy Doyle [2021] paperback
€11.70'A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality' John BoyneOne summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, their...
Roddy Doyle: The Complete Two Pints [2021] paperback
€6.99 – €14.30Two 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...
Roddy Doyle: COMMITMENTS [1990] paperback
€13.00Barrytown, 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...
Roddy Doyle: A Star Called Henry [2005] paperback
€4.99 – €13.00Born 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...
Roddy Doyle: The Snapper [1991] paperback
€4.99 – €13.00Meet 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 are...
