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Love, Danger, Homecomings & Heart β€” Your June Reading Escape Starts Here

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One disastrous night. One devastating man. One diabolical proposition.


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He’s stubborn. She’s tougher. His kid? Already picked the bride.


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A small-town second chance wrapped in danger, desire, and Sharon Sala heart.


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She came home to save the ranch… and found the cowboy she never forgot.


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From reality TV heartbreak to real-life reinvention.


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A missing twin. A deadly cartel. One K-9 team caught in the crossfire.


Life Without Children by Roddy Doyle

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Also by Roddy Doyle:

The Women Behind the Door, September 2025
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The Women Behind the Door, September 2024
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Life Without Children, March 2022
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Love, July 2021
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Love, July 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Smile, October 2018
Trade Size
Smile, October 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
The Guts, February 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Bullfighting, May 2011
Hardcover
The Dead Republic, May 2010
Hardcover

LIFE WITHOUT CHILDREN
By: Roddy Doyle

Stories

Viking
March 2022
On Sale: February 22, 2022
192 pages
ISBN: 0593300564
EAN: 9780593300565
Kindle: B098JC18M3
Hardcover / e-Book
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Anthology

Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone.
 
In these ten beautifully moving short stories written mostly over the last year, Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged son, barred from his mother’s funeral, wakes to an oncoming hangover of regret.

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