Booker prize launches new Quick Read in effort to boost adult reading rates

Short story collection All Around the World will be available for £1 in attempt to widen access to quality fiction

The Guardian
Roddy Doyle: ‘When you’re a Dublin writer, you’re inevitably asked about Joyce, and it’s tedious’

The Booker prize-winning novelist and screenwriter shares the tune he’d want played at his funeral and why he’d have a couple of pints with Charles Dickens but not three

The Guardian

"Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it."

~ Roddy Doyle, born today, 1958.

#RoddyDoyle #Quote #Today

David Szalay gewinnt den Booker Prize 2025 für „Flesh“ - Buchpreis

David Szalay gewinnt den Booker Prize 2025 für seinen Roman Flesh. Die Jury lobt formale Reduktion und strukturelle Präzision. Erste Auszeichnung für einen ungarisch-britischen Autor.

Lesering.de

𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗣𝗮𝗱𝗱𝘆 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲 𝗛𝗮 𝗛𝗮 𝗛𝗮" 𝗯𝘆 𝗥𝗼𝗱𝗱𝘆 𝗗𝗼𝘆𝗹𝗲 -

Clarke's hilarious and misfortunate 10-year-old narrator dominates the novel, almost obscuring our unease about this deeper bildungsroman.

https://youtu.be/Hl5DqYyUnE0

#bookreviews #literature #books #bookworm #read #book #readreadread #paddyclarkehahaha #roddydoyle #ireland #novel #bildungsroman

Recent acquisition for our personal library:

📖 Life Without Children by Roddy Doyle

Every once in a while, you find something good at the dollar store.

#bookstodon #shortstories #roddydoyle

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗣𝗮𝗱𝗱𝘆 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲 𝗛𝗮 𝗛𝗮 𝗛𝗮" 𝗯𝘆 𝗥𝗼𝗱𝗱𝘆 𝗗𝗼𝘆𝗹𝗲 -

Booker winner Doyle recounts a year in the life of a 10-year-old Dublin boy. Not a typical choice for me, but Dublin is where I will spend a few reads this month!

#roddydoyle #paddyclarkehahaha #tbr #fiction #childhood

𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -

A few books that I'll be reading during March, Women's History Month, and Irish-American Heritage Month.

#books #literature #bookreviews #bookworm #tbrpile #tbrlist #lynhejinian #mylife #tananarivedue #thegoodhouse #jamesjoyce #aportraitoftheartistasayoungman #roddydoyle #paddyclarkehahaha #verabrosgol #anyasghost #brianrichardson #apoeticsofplot

[15:34] Roddy Doyle announced as the first Booker Prize winner to chair the judging panel

Irish author Roddy Doyle has been announced as the first Booker Prize winner to chair the judging panel.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/roddy-doyle-announced-as-the-first-booker-prize-winner-to-chair-the-judging-panel/a327529781.html

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Roddy Doyle announced as the first Booker Prize winner to chair the judging panel

Irish author Roddy Doyle has been announced as the first Booker Prize winner to chair the judging panel.

Irish Independent