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A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: The last roundup | Reading Level: good
A historical tale marking a new turn in Doyle's writing. Born in the slums of Dublin in 1902, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. He eventually becomes a Fenian, a rebel, a republican legend - one of Michael Collins's boys, an assassin on a stolen bike.
Brilliant by Roddy Doyle
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
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 ...Show more
Brilliant by Roddy Doyle
$20.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
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 ...Show more
Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Bullfighting moves from classrooms to graveyards, local pubs to bullrings; featuring an array of men at their working day and at rest, taking stock and reliving past glories. Each are concerned with loss in different ways - of their place in the world, of power, virility, love - of the boom days and the ...Show more
Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
The men in Bullfighting are each concerned with loss in different ways - of their place in their world, of power, virility, love - of the boom days and the Celtic Tiger. 'The stories, his memories, were wearing out' the narrator of the title story thinks, 'and there was nothing new replacing them.' The ...Show more
Charlie Savage by Roddy Doyle
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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 ...Show more
Charlie Savage by Roddy Doyle
$24.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Meet Charlie Savage- a middle-aged Dubliner with an indefatigable wife, an exasperated daughter, a drinking buddy who's realised that he's been a woman all along ... Compiled here for the first time is a whole year's worth of Roddy Doyle's hilarious series for the Irish Independent. Giving a unique voi ...Show more
Love by Roddy Doyle
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'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 ...Show more
Meanwhile Adventures by Roddy Doyle
$14.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
Mr Mack is out of a job and sets his mind to inventions - whilst unbeknownst to him Mrs Mack decides to walk around the world without telling anyone. Unfortunately Mr Mack's inventions get him into trouble when he's arrested for inadvertently holding up a bank, so it's up to his children and their amazi ...Show more
Oh, Play That Thing by Roddy Doyle
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, fails on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. He catches the attention of the mobsters who run the district and soon ther ...Show more
Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Begins on the eve of Paula's forty-ninth birthday. She hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest children, Jack and Leanne, are still living with her. They're grand kids, but she worries about Leanne. Paula still works as a cleaner, but all the others doing the job now seem to come ...Show more
Rover Saves Christmas by Roddy Doyle & Brian Ajhar
$14.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction
Christmas is under threat! Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer only works one night a year - but, unfortunately, he's chosen Christmas Eve to take a sickie. When your star sleigh-puller is stable-ridden with the flu, what do you do? You call Rover... Join Rover, Robbie, Jimmy and Kayla, and all the other star ...Show more