Roddy Doyle talks to Chris Brookmyre at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
In Charlie Savage, Roddy Doyle collects a year of rich snapshots of everyday Dublin life in all its strangeness. The first publication of the Booker Prize-winner’s tender, comic series for the Irish Independent is about a middle-aged man in a modern world. See Doyle in lively conversation on Irish life with fellow writer Chris Brookmyre in this event filmed live at the 2019 Edinburgh International Book Festival.
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