DOYLE RODDY

ΠΑΝΤΥ ΚΛΑΡΚ, ΧΑ ΧΑ ΧΑ
Κανένας μας δεν είχε παπούτσια ποδοσφαίρου Αντίντας. Θα τα παίρναμε όλοι δώρο τα Χριστούγεννα. Ήθελα αυτά με τα βιδωτά καρφιά. Το ‘βαλα στο γράμμα μου για τον Άι Βασίλη, αλλά δεν πίστευα πως υπήρχε. Του έγραψα μόνο και μόνο γιατί μου είπε η μαμά μου να του γράψω, επειδή θα του έγραφε ο Σίνμπαντ. Ο Σίνμπαντ ήθελε ένα έλκηθρο. Η μαμά τον βοηθούσε να γράψει το γράμμα του. Το δικό μου είχε τελειώσει. Ήταν μέσα στο φάκελο αλλά εκείνη δεν με άφηνε ακόμα να γλείψω την κόλα, γιατί έπρεπε να μπει και το γράμμα του Σίνμπαντ. Δεν ήταν δίκαιο. Ήθελα έ...
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(P/B) LIFE WITHOUT CHILDREN
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 t...
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ΤΕΛΕΙΑ!
Όταν η επιχείρηση του θείου Μπεν στο Δουβλίνο χρεοκοπεί, η Γκλόρια και ο Ρέυμοντ καταλαβαίνουν πως κάτι δεν πάει καλά. Ο θείος Μπεν δεν είναι πια ο γνωστός, κεφάτος εαυτός του. Έτσι, ένα βράδυ που τα παιδιά κρυφακούν τη γιαγιά τους να λέει ότι το Μαύρο Σκυλί έχει καθίσει στην πλάτη του Μπεν και πως ο θείος τους δεν πρόκειται να συνέλθει μέχρι να φύγει αυτό από πάνω του, αποφασίζουν να το ξεφορτωθούν. Μαζεύοντας όλο τους το θάρρος, τα παιδιά ξεκινούν μια μεταμεσονύχτια εκστρατεία για να βρουν το Μαύρο Σκυλί και να το διώξουν μακριά. Αλλά η ...
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ΕΝΑ ΑΣΤΕΡΙ ΠΟΥ ΤΟ ΕΛΕΓΑΝ ΧΕΝΡΙ
Ο Χένρι Σμαρτ γεννιέται σε μια άθλια φτωχογειτονιά του Δουβλίνου. Στα δεκατέσσερά του χρόνια, έχοντας χάσει με τρόπο μυθιστορηματικό τους γονείς του, γίνεται επαναστάτης και συμμετέχει στον εθνικοαπελευθερωτικό αγώνα της Ιρλανδίας. Παρά την τραγική έκβασή του ο Χένρι, ζωντανός θρύλος πια, συνεχίζει τη δική του σκληρή και περιπετειώδη πορεία, πρωταγωνιστώντας πλάϊ στα μεγάλα ονόματα του τόπου του. Το θέμα του βιβλίου είναι σοβαρό, βαρύ, ιερό θα λέγαμε, αλλά ο Ντόϋλ δεν χάνει το χιούμορ του. Με ύφος πρωτότυπο, περιεκτικό, κοφτό, ρεαλιστικό κ...
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(P/B) PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA
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. (From the publisher)...
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ΠΑΜΕ ΠΑΛΙ ΤΟΝ ΙΔΙΟ ΣΚΟΠΟ
Βρισκόμαστε στα 1924 και η Νέα Υόρκη είναι το κέντρο του κόσμου. Ο Χένρι Σμαρτ, γνωστός από το προηγούμενο βιβλίο του Roddy Doyle "Ένα αστέρι που το έλεγαν Χένρι" έχει αφήσει πίσω του τη γενέτειρά του Ιρλανδία, αναζητώντας καλύτερη τύχη στον Νέο Κόσμο. Όμως, όταν μπλέκεται με τους νονούς της ποτοαπαγόρευσης, διαπιστώνει πως η πόλη όπου «χτυπάει η καρδιά της γης» δεν τον σηκώνει: είναι καιρός να βάλει πλώρη για μιαν «άλλη Αμερική», το Σικάγο. Εκεί δεν υπάρχει παρελθόν να τον βαραίνει. Ο τόπος είναι νέος, όπως και ο Χένρι - αλλά νεότερη απ' ...
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(P/B) SMILE
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 ...
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(P/B) MAD WEEKEND
Dave, Pat and Ben have been best friends since they were kids. They do everything together, and they all love Liverpool football club. On a trip to see their favourite team in action, they have a few too many drinks before the match. Dave and Pat get busy chatting up two local girls. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE VAN
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. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) OH, PLAY THAT THING
On the last page of A Star Called Henry, the first volume of the The Last Roundup trilogy, we left Henry Smart on the run from his Republican paymasters, the men for whom he had perpetrated murder and mayhem. He flees from Dublin to Liverpool and from thence to Ellis Island, New York, America. And this is where Oh, Play That Thing begins... It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry falls on his feet, as a handsome man with a sandwich board, and - this being Prohibition - behind his sandwich board a stash of hooch for the...
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(P/B) THE DEAD REPUBLIC
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 Rathee...
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(H/B) SMILE
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. 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 ...
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(P/B) THE WOMAN WHO WALKED INTO DOORS
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. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE SNAPPER
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 are 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? (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) PAULA SPENCER
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 ...
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(P/B) THE COMMITMENTS
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? (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) DEAD MAN TALKING
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... Roddy Doyle's first book for the Quick Reads programme to support adult literacy is fast, funny and just a tiny bit spooky. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) BRILLIANT
A 'brilliant' middle-grade magical adventure from the world-famous author of The Commitments and The Guts. 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 ar...
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(P/B) THE GUTS
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. Includes the short story Jimmy Jazz. ...
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(P/B) A STAR CALLED HENRY
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' bo...
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