An effortless read, told in warm and witty Roddy Doyle style.

Realistic and funny... This is a funny book about serious stuff... Doyle's descriptions of fatherhood will leave a powerful impression on any reader

Probably the finest collection of Irish short stories since James Joyce's Dubliners

The trademark deadpan style of Doyle's storytelling make this an entirely believable comedy

Roddy Doyle's Bullfighting offers a series of rare and beautiful mid-life meditations

Doyle's writing seems so natural, so effortless that I sometimes think we overlook how good it is

Doyle snaps entire lives into sharp focus in a handful of pages, which is short fiction doing what short fiction does best

These rather tender-hearted sketches of how men get old in contemporary Ireland may not be autobiographical but they're true; they come from life as lived

Insightful collection of stories

A muted celebration of everday life and its consolations

Fans of Doyle's work will doubtless find much to celebrate in Bullfighting

This collection is brilliant: very funny, but also tragic and tender

Quite frankly, this is one of the most accurately observed books on human life I've come across and it's well worth a look

A collection of short stories musing on the masculine midlife crisis

These short stories flow beautifully yet there is something very sharp and crisp and understated here, too. You whizz through, then you read them again, and they’re even better the second time

Doyle balances humour with pathos