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's latest short story collection "Life Without Children" contains vivid reports from the lockdown in Ireland, including the way it has roughly turned Irish life on its head. The result is ...

The daily tally of infections, hospitalizations, deaths — this is one way to measure the pandemic’s toll. Here’s another: Consider COVID’s insidious knack for turning our latent worries into ...

When a love affair from decades back gets unexpectedly rekindled, a married Dublin father must decide whether to pursue it or give it up. Confiding in his best friend, the story and the long ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Irish author Roddy Doyle's bestselling novel "The Commitments" is finally being made into a musical, more than 25 years after the heartwarming tale of a group of aspiring soul ...

Doyle's dynamic first collection of short stories offers light and heartfelt perspectives on the effects of immigration on Irish culture. Originally serialized for a Dublin newspaper, all eight ...

In Roddy Doyle’s 12th novel, “Love,” a man named Davy returns from England to Dublin to visit his father, and shares pints of beer with his old friend Joe over several hours in various pubs. But this ...

At the end of Roddy Doyle’s novel of domestic violence, “The Woman Who Walked into Doors” (1996), Paula Spencer finally fights back after decades of physical abuse, braining her husband Charlo with a ...

The Irish author Roddy Doyle wrote his new collection of short stories during the pandemic. Each of the 10 stories in "Life Without Children" paints a portrait of Dublin during these strange last two ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Daphne Merkin LIFE WITHOUT CHILDREN Stories By Roddy Doyle The act of pulling off good sentences, ...

Brit Bennett, Megha Majumdar, Roddy Doyle and Marie-Helene Bertino talk about their new books. ‘the vanishing half’ Growing up in rural Palmetto, La., during Jim Crow, Lena Bennett used to sit with ...

Novelist Roddy Doyle is not an autobiographical writer, but he does acknowledge: "The characters have been getting older as I get older." In his latest novel, Love, Joe and Davy are two old friends ...