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Meanwhile Adventures by Roddy Doyle
13.99 NZD
17.99 (22% off)
Category: Children Fiction | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
Mr Mack is out of a job and sets his mind to inventions - whilst unbeknownst to him Mrs Mack decides to walk around the world without telling anyone. Unfortunately Mr Mack's inventions get him into trouble when he's arrested for inadvertently holding up a bank, so it's up to his children and their amazi ...Show more
Oh, Play That Thing by Roddy Doyle
26.99 NZD
28.99 (6% off)
Category: General Fiction
It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, fails on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. He catches the attention of the mobsters who run the district and soon ther ...Show more
Oh, Play That Thing (Volume 2 The Last Roundup) by Roddy Doyle
26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
On the last page of A Star Called Henry, we left Henry Smart on the run from his Republican paymasters, the men for whom he had perpetrated murder and mayhem. He flees from Dublin to Liverpool and from thence to Ellis Island, New York, America. And this is where Oh, Play That Thing begins... It's 1924, ...Show more
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE - the bittersweet and funny take of a boy growing up in north Dublin. Paddy Clarke is ten years old. Paddy Clarke lights fires. Paddy Clarke's name is written in wet cement all over Barrytown, north Dublin. Paddy Clarke's heroes are Father Damien (and the lepers), Geronimo and ...Show more
Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
When we first met Paula Spencer - in "The Woman Who Walked into Doors" - she was thirty-nine, recently widowed, an alcoholic struggling to hold her family together. Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paula's forty-eighth birthday. She hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest childr ...Show more
Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle
36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Begins on the eve of Paula's forty-ninth birthday. She hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest children, Jack and Leanne, are still living with her. They're grand kids, but she worries about Leanne. Paula still works as a cleaner, but all the others doing the job now seem to come ...Show more
Rory & Ita by Roddy Doyle
27.95 NZD
28.99 (3% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Roddy Doyle's first non-fiction book, tells -largely in their own words - the story of his parents' lives from their first memories to the present. Born in 1923 and 1925 respectively, they met at a New Year's Eve dance in 1947 and married in 1951. They remember every detail of their Dublin childhoods -t ...Show more
Rover Saves Christmas by Roddy Doyle
13.00 NZD
Category: Children Fiction
When Rudolph calls in sick on Christmas Eve, Rover takes over for a mad dash around the world with Santa. Illustrations.
Rover Saves Christmas by Roddy Doyle
16.00 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Reading Level: From 7 To 9
Gloriously silly comedy from Booker prize winner and bestseller Roddy Doyle. It's Christmas eve and Rudolph's got the flu! Jimmy and Robbie Mack are so desperate for Christmas that they've left twenty-seven sandwiches out for Santa. But Rudolf is off sick and Santa's grounded the sleigh - with all the p ...Show more
Rover Saves Christmas by Roddy Doyle & Brian Ajhar
17.99 NZD
18.50 (2% off)
Category: Children Fiction
Christmas is under threat! Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer only works one night a year - but, unfortunately, he's chosen Christmas Eve to take a sickie. When your star sleigh-puller is stable-ridden with the flu, what do you do? You call Rover... Join Rover, Robbie, Jimmy and Kayla, and all the other star ...Show more
Smile by Roddy Doyle
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Just moved in to 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 pink shirt brings over his pint and sits down. He seems to know Victor's name and to remember him from ...Show more
THE VAN by Roddy Doyle
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Jimmy Rabbitte is unemployed and rapidly running out of money. His best friend Bimbo has been made redundant at the company where he has worked for many years. The two old friends are out of luck and out of options. That is, until Bimbo finds a dilapidated 'chipper van' and the pair decide to go into bu ...Show more