It’s Savage craic: Doyle’s comforting and comical collection
Charlie Savage is a Dublin grandfather who might be old-fashioned in some respects - he’s a pint drinker, a gruff talker and he loves shouting at the telly - but he’s also a man alive to the modern world
FICTION: Charlie Savage, By Roddy Doyle , Jonathan Cape, €13
Roddy Doyle is a master of versatility. While his early novels shone bright with the down-to-earth humour that netted Doyle the Booker Prize for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha in 1993, later novels offered a different literary palette. A Star Called Henry, for example, was a far more complicated and adventurous work of historical fiction.
Now Doyle returns with an intentionally slight compendium ...
