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Roddy Doyle

Ireland (1958 - )

About Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle is the author of five novels, including Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, for which he won the 1993 Booker Prize, and The Woman Who Walked into Doors. He lives in Dublin.

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The Dead Republic

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The Extra Big Rover Adventures
(Rover Adventures)

Series

Barrytown
1. The Commitments (1987)
2. The Snapper (1990)
3. The Van (1991)
The Barrytown Trilogy: The Commitments / The Snapper / The Van (1992)

Last Roundup
1. A Star Called Henry (1999)
2. Oh, Play That Thing (2004)

Roddy Doyle's Childrens books
Not Just for Christmas (1999)
Wilderness (2007)
Her Mother's Face (2008)

Rover Adventures
The Giggler Treatment (2000)
Rover Saves Christmas (2001)
The Meanwhile Adventures (2004)
The Rover Adventures (omnibus) (2008)
The Extra Big Rover Adventures (omnibus) (2009)

Novels

Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha (1993)
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (1996)
Yeats is Dead!: A Novel by Fifteen Irish Writers (2001) (with Anthony Cronin, Hugo Hamilton, Marian Keyes, Frank McCourt, Pauline McLynn, Conor McPherson and Joseph O'Connor)
Paula Spencer (2006)
Click (2007) (with David Almond, Eoin Colfer, Deborah Ellis, Nick Hornby, Margo Lanagan, Gregory Maguire, Ruth Ozeki, Linda Sue Park and Tim Wynne-Jones)
The Dead Republic (2010)

Collections

The Deportees (2007)
Free? (2009) (with David Almond, Ibtisam Barakat, Malorie Blackman, Theresa Breslin, Eoin Colfer, Ursula Dubosarsky, Jamila Gavin, Patricia McCormick, Margaret Mahy, Michael Morpurgo, Sarah Mussi, Meja Mwangi and Rita Williams-Garcia)

Novellas

Mad Weekend (2006)

Series contributed to

Finbar's Hotel (with Dermot Bolger, Anne Enright, Hugo Hamilton, Jennifer Johnston, Joseph O'Connor and Colm Tóibín)
Finbar's Hotel (1999)

Non fiction

Rory and Ita (2002)

Awards

	The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1991) : The Van
	The Booker Prize Best Novel winner (1993) : Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha

Roddy Doyle recommends

Fever Pitch (1992) Nick Hornby "Funny, wise and true."	Give Us a Kiss: A Country Noir (1996) Daniel Woodrell "I loved it. Woodrell is a marvellous writer."	In the Beginning (1997) Catherine Dunne "Beautifully written, perfectly paced and very, very moving."
The Crooked Man (1997) (Harry Fielding, book 1) Philip Davison "... memorable and very accomplished book."	The Salesman (1997) Joseph O'Connor "Joseph O'Connor has a great eye for the absurd in common things, a great ear for the comic in ordinary speech. His writing is terrific."	The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998) Sebastian Barry "This is a powerful, unique book. Sebastian Barry's language is utterly new and quite magnificent; it was like reading English for the first time."
The Junk Yard: Voices From An Irish Prison (1999) Marsha Hunt "This is some of the most powerful writing I've read in years. I finished the book shattered and grateful."	Sudden Times (2000) Dermot Healy "Disturbing, funny, mad and beautifully human... it's a great novel and Dermot Healy is Ireland's greatest writer."	Sing! (2001) Michael Curtin "One of Ireland's very best writers. His books are marvellous achievements, very funny and very, very human."
The Ledge (2002) Blánaid McKinney "The Ledge is a terrific novel. The writing is brilliant, the characters are terrific, the plot comes staggering out of that corner where malice, hilarity and sentiment meet and have it out."	Sons of Destiny (2004) (Saga of Darren Shan, book 12) Darren Shan "I love the way you manage to juggle funny with the unpleasant, the affection with the hurt. It's great story-telling."	The Midnight Choir (2006) Gene Kerrigan "A great writer... relentless and brilliant."
The Third Party (2007) Glenn Patterson "An intriguing and highly entertaining novel."	John the Revelator (2009) Peter Murphy "Everything about John the Revelator excited me - I couldn't wait to turn the page and keep going. It was almost like reading for the first time..."	Ghosts and Lightning (2009) Trevor Byrne "Often funny, sometimes very frightening , always very human, I loved it."
Life In The Universe (2009) Michael J Farrell "This is a great collection. The stories surprise, and are full of surprises. They are funny, provocative, clever, charming, and quite brilliantly written."

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