Родди Дойл – лучшие произведения

Обыкновенный банковский служащий, живущий тихой, мирной жизнью с женой и детьми вдруг понимает, что очень хочет выпить крови...

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…

Our tale begins with a simple man heading to 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 responsible? Find out in this thoroughly silly tale that reveals the truth of what happens to grownups who are mean to children!

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,…

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!