Paula Spencer is back for an encore performance in Roddy Doyle’s latest miracle of a novel, “The Women Behind the Door.” In this installment, the 66-year-old mother, grandmother, recovering alcoholic ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Irish author Roddy Doyle's bestselling novel "The Commitments" is finally being made into a musical, more than 25 years after the heartwarming tale of a group of aspiring soul ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Join old friends Roddy Doyle and Dave Eggers as they discuss Doyle's newest novel, a powerful, moving mother-daughter story filled with struggle and redemption by the Booker Prize winner. A follow up ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle, creator of some of Ireland's most renowned characters, will tackle one the country's best known when he teams up with Roy Keane to write the ...

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 ...

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 ...