Doyle just gets better and better. After the touching hijinks of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and the poignantly powerful The Woman Who Walked into Walls, he has embarked on nothing less than a trilogy that ...

Roddy Doyle has written for stage and film, but he is best known for his 11 novels, including the Booker Prize-winning "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha." His latest book, "Smile," builds on many of his familiar ...

In 1987 an unknown Irish writer named Roddy Doyle self-published his first novel, “The Commitments,” the story of a motley group of out-of-work young Dubliners who are melded into a soul band by a ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The story of his mother's life inspired prizewinning Irish novelist Roddy Doyle's latest book, "A Greyhound of a Girl," featuring four generations of women - one of whom is a ghost.

A pandemic’s gotta be good for something, right? So why not a story? There’s the setting for a dystopian present, a landscape littered with discarded masks and gutted of people except for the sorry ...

Paula Spencer is back for an encore performance in Roddy Doyle’s latest miracle of a novel, “The Women Behind the Door.” In this installment, the 66-year-old mother, grandmother, recovering alcoholic ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Provided by Viking "Smile" By Roddy Doyle We’ve got a couple of months to go, but it’s safe to say that Roddy Doyle’s “Smile” is the most bitterly ironic ...

Writer Roddy Doyle says he never kills off his characters, which means he can revisit them decades later. But in his latest book, one of his famous protagonists must face his own mortality, on top of ...

It's been almost 30 years since we were first introduced to music fanatic Jimmy Rabbitte in the novel "The Commitments." He was the manager of a ragtag Irish band determined to bring soul music to ...