SYDNEY (Reuters) - The story of his mother's life inspired prizewinning Irish novelist Roddy Doyle's latest book, "A Greyhound of a Girl," featuring four generations of women - one of whom is a ghost.

The women in Roddy Doyle’s “The Women Behind the Door” are so flawed: bruised, crass, guilt-ridden, incontinent, self-centered, blunt to a fault, furious at themselves and each other and the world.

A pandemic’s gotta be good for something, right? So why not a story? There’s the setting for a dystopian present, a landscape littered with discarded masks and gutted of people except for the sorry ...

Renowned Irish novelist Roddy Doyle is best known for his hard-boiled stories of revolution. Of course, that usually means the Irish Republican Army and civil war, but not so in part two of Doyle's ...

Irish author and 1993 Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle has been announced as the chair of the 2025 judging panel for The Booker Prize. Doyle is joined by Sarah Jessica Parker on the panel, as well as ...

Author Roddy Doyle has confirmed that he's working on a new translation of Mozart's Don Giovanni, which will receive its world premiere at the Dublin festival next year. Jaykers! Entertainment • 12 ...

At the end of Roddy Doyle’s novel of domestic violence, “The Woman Who Walked into Doors” (1996), Paula Spencer finally fights back after decades of physical abuse, braining her husband Charlo with a ...

Roddy Doyle became a literary star with novels like “The Commitments,” “The Van,” and “Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha,” which teemed with exuberant life. But what do you write about when exuberance, and even ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Award-winning Irish author Roddy Doyle brings a few of his earliest characters back in his latest book, "The Guts", an achingly funny novel about some of life's more serious ...