Books by Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist, and screenwriter who won the Booker Prize in 1993, the same year he left his career as an English and geography teacher to write full time. A University College Dublin graduate, he is best known for The Commitments, adapted into a successful film in 1991, and has collaborated with Roy Keane on the book The Second Half.

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The Second Half

Roddy Doyle

Roy Keane takes you through the turbulent years after his captain's armband: the disciplinary hearings, the ten-minute meeting that ended twelve years at Manchester United, the painful transition into management, and the hard-won lessons of learning to lead others. A blunt, honest account of what it costs to stay hungry after the glory fades.

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