Irish writer Roddy Doyle is the winner of the prestigious 1993 literary Booker Prize for his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. Doyle’s 1987 book The Commitments was made into a film, as was his 1991 book ...

Doyle just gets better and better. After the touching hijinks of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and the poignantly powerful The Woman Who Walked into Walls, he has embarked on nothing less than a trilogy that ...

Irish writer Doyle, author of “The Commitments” and “The Snapper,” won the 1993 Booker Prize for this novel, told from the perspective of a 10-year-old boy. “Paddy Clarke”became a bestseller in the ...

IRISH author Roddy Doyle is to see his 'Gigglers' receive the Wallis and Gromit treatment in a new children's animation. The award-winning Dublin writer is adapting his own children's book, 'The ...

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle (Penguin, $15). From the first page, Doyle’s Booker Prize–winning 1993 novel took me back to growing up in a small town in Ireland in the 1960s. Doyle’s writing ...

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 ...

Roddy Doyle is the author of 11 novels including The Commitments, which was adapted into a successful film and stage musical, The Snapper, and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, which won the Booker Prize. His ...

The Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha returns to his iconic character, Paula Spencer, whom he originated in The Woman Who Walked into Doors. Now aged 66, Paula—mother, grandmother, ...

In a few weeks, Vintage will publish nine new editions of books that have been awarded the prestigious Man Booker Prize: Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (1998), Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (1999), How Late It ...