Roddy Doyle

Author

Roddy Doyle achieved widespread recognition when his novel The Commitments (1987) was made into a motion picture in 1991.

Doyle's novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha won the Booker Prize, Britain's highest literary award, in 1993.

His latest book Rory and Ita is non-fiction, telling the story - largely in their own words - of his parent's lives. Released in paperback October 2003