Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of twelve acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van and Smile, two collections of short stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

"The words crackle and fizz - a dazzling evocation of the Jazz Age... Magical and marvellous" Independent on Sunday "A virtuoso of the sentence...Doyle wonderfully recreates a world of flophouses and speakeasies, flappers and bootleggers" Guardian "Doyle's performance is, again, extraordinary for the richness of allusion, the facility with which history is dovetailed with invention, the energy of the prose" Daily Telegraph "Brilliantly imagined... Utterly magnificent, the finest work he has done" Sunday Tribune "Kicks off at a furious lick and just gets faster, hotter, louder. Hugely, unremittingly entertaining" Scotsman

Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of twelve acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van and Smile, two collections of short stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

"The words crackle and fizz - a dazzling evocation of the Jazz Age... Magical and marvellous" Independent on Sunday "A virtuoso of the sentence...Doyle wonderfully recreates a world of flophouses and speakeasies, flappers and bootleggers" Guardian "Doyle's performance is, again, extraordinary for the richness of allusion, the facility with which history is dovetailed with invention, the energy of the prose" Daily Telegraph "Brilliantly imagined... Utterly magnificent, the finest work he has done" Sunday Tribune "Kicks off at a furious lick and just gets faster, hotter, louder. Hugely, unremittingly entertaining" Scotsman

Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of twelve acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van and Smile, two collections of short stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.

"The words crackle and fizz - a dazzling evocation of the Jazz Age... Magical and marvellous" Independent on Sunday "A virtuoso of the sentence...Doyle wonderfully recreates a world of flophouses and speakeasies, flappers and bootleggers" Guardian "Doyle's performance is, again, extraordinary for the richness of allusion, the facility with which history is dovetailed with invention, the energy of the prose" Daily Telegraph "Brilliantly imagined... Utterly magnificent, the finest work he has done" Sunday Tribune "Kicks off at a furious lick and just gets faster, hotter, louder. Hugely, unremittingly entertaining" Scotsman