A Greyhound of a Girl review – Roddy Doyle story is beautiful take on childhood grief
Heart-lifting adaptation of Doyle’s children’s novel follows cheeky 12-year-old Mia as she faces the loss of her beloved granny
September 2022
‘There is nothing wrong with offending people’: Roddy Doyle on getting the band back together
His comic novel The Commitments gave working-class Dublin its voice – and became a hit film. As the stage version returns to theatres, does Doyle still recognise the foul-mouthed young author who wrote it?
November 2021
Inside story: the first pandemic novels have arrived, but are we ready for them?
Ali Smith, Sally Rooney, Roddy Doyle … is there anything can we learn from the first Covid-19 books?
October 2021
Book of the day
Life Without Children by Roddy Doyle review – stories about lockdown and loss
Life Without Children by Roddy Doyle review – frustrated lives in lockdown
August 2021
Top 10s
Top 10 books about family life
From parents who meddle in their children’s relationships to ex-wives who loom over second marriages, families in fiction can be just as complicated as they are in real life
February 2021
Top 10s
Top 10 books about the Irish war of independence
Top 10s
Top 10 books about football
December 2020
Roddy Doyle on writing The Commitments: 'Whenever I needed a name, I used the phonebook'
The Booker winner and dramatist on writing his much-loved novel while teaching at a secondary school in a Dublin suburb
October 2020
Love by Roddy Doyle review – boozy old pals find a twist in the tale
Book of the day
Love by Roddy Doyle review – profundity down the pub
September 2020
Top authors hope you’ll give this book away to change young lives
Philip Pullman, Robert Macfarlane and 21 others give backing to literacy charity Room to Read in new anthology the Gifts of Reading
March 2019
Rosie review – the heartbreak of homelessness
A family of six are forced on to the street after losing their rented house in a powerful and moving drama written by Roddy Doyle
October 2018
Roddy Doyle depicts Ireland's homeless crisis in new film Rosie
Rosie tells story of young couple and four children who are squeezed out of private rental market into homelessness
June 2018
The Snapper review – Roddy Doyle's baby banter brought to vivid life
The author’s adaptation of his comic novel about an unplanned pregnancy is filled with nostalgic touches and noisy energy
November 2017
Best books of 2017
Best books of 2017 – part two
From moving memoirs to far-reaching fiction, novelists, poets and critics pick their best reads of the year
September 2017
Smile by Roddy Doyle review – a bleak picture of institutional abuse
A chance encounter in a Dublin pub leads a middle-aged man to relive his past in a devastating novel with a shocking twist
My writing day
Roddy Doyle: my work is fuelled by music, mitching and mugs of green tea
The bestselling author writes his novel in the morning, a play or column in the afternoon – and likes to sneak off to the cinema when nobody is looking
Book of the day
Smile by Roddy Doyle review – few laughs, but a fine novel
A chance meeting in a pub leads to the challenging of memories and confronting of demons from the past
December 2016
Treasure Palaces: Great Writers Visit Great Museums – review
From John Lanchester at the Prado to Ann Wroe at Dove Cottage, these accounts of favourite museums are a joy to read
