Roddy Doyle: The Dead Republic [2011] paperback Condition:Very Good a celebration of the changing

a celebration of the changing nature of the British countryside

Not all storms come to disrupt your life

But the work of the hospital dog doesn't stop there and when one of her patients is in trouble

HOPE the economy rebounds

a survivor of the man-made plague that has swept the earth

Roddy Doyle: The Dead Republic [2011] paperback Condition:Very Good a celebration of the changingWe last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Utah desert to die only to be discovered by John Ford, who's there shooting his latest Western. The Dead Republic opens in 1951. Henry is returning to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922. With him are the stars of Ford's latest film, John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, and the famous director himself, who has tried to suck the soul out of Henry and