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Booker-Prize winner Roddy Doyle’s spectacular return to his iconic character, Paula Spencer, whom he originated in the groundbreaking The Woman Who Walked into Doors and its follow-up, Paula Spencer'The undisputed laureate of ordinary lives'SUNDAY TIMES'The best novelist of his generation'NICK HORNBY, author of High FidelityAt sixty-six, Paula Spencer – mother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivor – is finally living her life. A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys, a man – Joe – with whom she shares what she wants, friends who see her for who she is, and four grown children, now with families and petty dramas the likes of which Paula could…

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...
Roddy Doyle's first book for the Quick Reads programme to support adult literacy is fast, funny and just a tiny bit spooky.

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.

«В музыке Джимми Кроллик разбирался. Нормально так в ней шарил. Хаял Моби, не успели его толком полюбить. Однажды в ДАРТе услыхал, как два пацана разговаривают про «Лефтфилд», – так с полным правом нагнулся к ним и сообщил: все это ахинея. И при этом понимал, что совершенно прав. Джимми знал: последний альбом «Рэйдиохед» такая дрянь, что его даже круто хвалить, однако сам не хвалил. Ну уж хренушки. Это выше моды. Хип-хоп, джангл-кантри, биг-бит, свинг – все это Джимми любил и ненавидел. Но ему уже стукнуло тридцать шесть, у него трое короедов, и жене, которая на шестом месяце, медведь на ухо наступил…»

A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short stories
Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone.
In these ten, beautifully moving short stories mostly written over the last year, Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. 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

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.
As two pints turns to three, then five, Davy and Joe set out to revisit the haunts of their youth. With the ghosts of Dublin entwining around them - the pubs, the parties, the broken hearts and bungled affairs - the men find themselves face-to-face with the realities of friendship.

Meet Charlie Savage.
Charlie is 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 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).

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 еще Падди чувствует, что его мир вот-вот изменится навсегда…
Используя прием "потока сознания" и нетрадиционную структуру повествования без деления на главы, Дойл показывает не только непрерывно меняющийся мир ребенка со всеми взлетами и падениями, радостями и потерями, но и его взгляд на взрослые проблемы.

‘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,

Told from the perspective of the Russian dog Tsygan, this is the incredible true story of the Soviet space dogs – the first living creatures to be sent into space and the ‘star dogs’ of the title.Roddy Doyle’s brilliantly accessible voice is complemented by the illuminating illustrations of Steve Simpson.Look out for the other eleven stories – also available as e-shorts!

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.
Inspi

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).

Нил Гейман и Эл Саррантонио — не только блестящие литераторы и строгие критики, но и искушенные читатели, для которых сказка — это, в первую очередь, история. История с большой буквы. Она одинаково увлекательна для людей разного пола, возраста и национальности. Она балансирует на тонкой грани смешного и страшного, причудливого и обыденного, и для нее нет иных границ, кроме таланта и фантазии автора. А какой еще жанр отвечает этой задаче лучше, чем фантастика? Итогом трудов составителей и стала книга, которую вы держите в руках — коллекция лучших рассказов в жанрах мифологического и городского фэнтези, хоррора, саспенса и даже реализма,…

Just moved into 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 a pink shirt brings over his pint and sits down. He seems to know Victor’s name and to remember him from school. Says his name is Fitzpatrick.
Victor dislikes him on sight, dislikes too the memories that Fitzpatrick stirs up of five years being taught by the Christian Brothers.He prompts other memories too – of Rachel, his beautiful wife who became a celebrity, and of Victor’s own small claim to fame, as the man who says the unsayable on the radio.
But it’s the memories of school, and of one particular Brother, that he cannot control - and which eventually threaten to destroy his sanity.

BFB (Большой толстый малыш) пропал!
Смогут ли чудо-пес Ровер и его маленький племянник Месси выследить его?
В "Ровере и большом толстом малыше" Ровер возвращается ради очередного приключения в этой иллюстрированной серии бестселлеров лауреата Букеровской премии Родди Дойла.
Книга на английском языке.
Rover, canine star of The Giggler Treatment, Rover Saves Christmas and The Meanwhile Adventures is back!
The BFB (Big Fat Baby) is missing!
Can Rover the wonder dog and his little nephew Messi (who is actually very tidy) track her down?
While Rover and co. are hot on the trail of the BFB, via Granny Mack's backpack, the post lady's basket and a plane bound for Africa, it looks like the Gigglers are about to run out of poo . . .
And without an urgent delivery from Rover, how will they be able to give the Giggler Treatment to grumpy adults and help kids all over the country?
In Rover and the Big Fat Baby, Rover returns for another adventure in this bestselling illustrated series by Booker Prize-winner Roddy Doyle.

Это не добрые рождественские сказки, которые так хорошо читать детям на ночь. Это страшные истории о тьме, которая стоит за порогом и ждет, когда ты сделаешь один неверный шаг, о странных и жутких существах, которые бродят за окном и иногда заглядывают по твою душу. Нил Гейман и Эл Саррантонио собрали лучшие рассказы в жанре хоррор и саспенс, написанные признанными мастерами американской прозы (Чак Паланик, Майкл Муркок, Уолтер Мосли, Майкл Суэнвик). Перед вами коллекция умных, тонких, изысканно интеллектуальных, захватывающих и по-настоящему страшных историй: дверь, через которую Бездна всматривается в человека.

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.