His children's book A Greyhound of a Girl (2012) was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 2013. Doyle is also the author of two plays, Brownbread (1987), and War (1989) and children's books, including The Giggler Treatment (2000), Rover Saves Christmas (2001) and The Meanwhile Adventures (2004). Doyle revisits Spencer's life in his 2006 novel Paula Spencer. His novel, A Star Called Henry (1999), is set in 1922 during the civil war in Ireland. The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (1996) is the tragic story of Paula Spencer, alcoholic and mother of four children, locked in an abusive marriage. Both The Commitments and The Snapper were made into films, and Doyle wrote the Channel 4 series, The Family, which was televised in the UK in 1995.He won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1993 for his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, the vibrant tale of a ten-year-old Irish boy. His first three novels, The Commitments (1987), The Snapper (1990), and The Van (1991), narrate the adventures of the Rabbitte family, residents of Barrytown, a poor housing estate in north Dublin. He became a teacher in Dublin in 1980, before leaving to write full-time in 1993.

The one he does read is really very good and he seems to have calmed down considerably.Born in Dublin in 1958, Roddy Doyle was educated by the Christian Brothers and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he read English and Geography. Kinlan narrates another Roddy Doyle's book, The Guts and does a great job but that has virtually no actual songs.

He lets the text speak for itself without making a meal of it and his singing and the sounds from the instruments are measured and easy to listen to. I bought the abridged version narrated by Aidan Gillan and he is excellent. Just so over the top and he really isn't a singer by any means.

A lot of the content is made up of the songs the band perform and the sounds from the instruments but Kinlan just roars out the lot. However, Lawrence Kinlan spoiled it for me. I bought this as I love Roddy Doyle's Barrytown trilogy and this is the unabridged version so thought I'd prefer it just as I remember reading it. The abridged version read by Aidan Gillan is so much better. Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Laurence Kinlan? I would not recommend this version with Lawrence Kinlan as the narrator. Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

The commitments by roddy doyle