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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

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…

‘A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality’ John Boyne
One summer’s evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant.
Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he has to tell Davy, and Davy, a grief he wants to keep from Joe. Both are not the men they used to be.
Neither Davy nor Joe know what the night has in store, but as two pints turns to three, then five,

The next round in the beloved Two Pints series from the ever-brilliant, always hilarious imagination of bestselling author of The Commitments and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Two men meet for a pint - or three - in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights and mourn friends gone: David Bowie, Prince, Princess Leia and Young Frankenstein. Around them the world of Brexit, Trump, and referendums storm, but some things - good things - never change.
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Meet Charlie Savage: a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, a drinking buddy who’s realized that he’s been a woman all along… Compiled here for the first time is a whole year’s worth of Roddy Doyle’s hilariousseries for the Irish Independent. Giving a unique voice to the everyday, he draws a portrait of a man – funny, loyal, somewhat bewildered – trying to keep pace with the modern world (if his knees don’t give out first).

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?

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.

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...