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Rover Saves Christmas by Roddy Doyle
$16.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Reading Level: From 7 To 9
Gloriously silly comedy from Booker prize winner and bestseller Roddy Doyle. It's Christmas eve and Rudolph's got the flu! Jimmy and Robbie Mack are so desperate for Christmas that they've left twenty-seven sandwiches out for Santa. But Rudolf is off sick and Santa's grounded the sleigh - with all the p ...Show more
Smile by Roddy Doyle
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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 pint and sits down. He seems to know Victor's name and to remember him from ...Show more
The Deportees by Roddy Doyle
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
For the past few years, Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for "Metro Eireann", a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories took a new slant on the immigrant experience, something of increasing relevance and importance in today's Ireland. The stories range from "Gu ...Show more
The Gifts of Reading - Essays on the Joys of Reading, Giving and Receiving Books by Jennie Orchard (Curated by); Robert Macfarlane; Jackie Morris; William Boyd; Candice Carty-Williams; Chigozie Obioma; Philip Pullman; Imtiaz Dharker; Roddy Doyle; Pico Iyer; Andy Miller
$37.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: very good
'This story, like so many stories, begins with a gift. The gift, like so many gifts, was a book...' So begins the essay by Robert Macfarlane that inspired this collection. In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayist ...Show more
The Giggler Treatment by Roddy Doyle
$18.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
Mr. Mack is about to step foot-first into a fate he doesn't deserve. This hilarious tale begins with a simple man, Mr. Mack, heading for his job as a cookie taster...but also heading for a terrible (and awfully smelly) fate. Is it an accident? Or are the mischievous Gigglers (elfin creatures who punish ...Show more
The Guts by Roddy Doyle
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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 - his new thing is finding old bands and then fin ...Show more
The Meanwhile Adventures by Roddy Doyle & Brian Ajhar (ill.)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
You remember Mr. Mack, the man from The Giggler Treatment? He has now become an inventor, and when he goes to the bank with his latest brainwave
The Meanwhile Adventures (Rover Adventures) by Roddy Doyle
$16.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: Rover Adventures | Reading Level: From 7 To 9
Mr Mack's inventing career has got off to a bad start \- he's been arrested! It's up to Jimmy, Robbie, Kayla and Rover the wonder-dog to: - Rescue Mr Mack from prison - Avoid the orphan catchers - Save the world from an army of stroppy slugs Will they succeed? There's only one way to find out\.