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A Bit on the Side by William Trevor
Category: Fiction
Then, for forty minutes that were theirs, they spoke of love: as it had been for them, as it still was, of its confinement, necessarily so, its intensity too, its pain, the mockery it had so often felt like, how they had never wasted it by sitting in silence in the dark of a cinema or sleeping through t ...Show more
After Rain by William Trevor
Category: Fiction
"After Rain" - Twelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor. "There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world". ("Wall Street Journal"). In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, William Trevor plumbs the depths of the human heart. Here we e ...Show more
Bodily Secrets by William Trevor
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Loves
Wealthy widow Norah O'Neill wonders if she will ever marry again. When her son decides to close the family's failing toy factory, the manager, a decent man who dances the quickstep beautifully, becomes unemployed. Suddenly, Norah sees her chance for happiness, in a new venture of her own. United by the ...Show more
Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
Category: Fiction
'No matter what,' Julia had said, aware then of what was coming, 'let's always play cards.' And they did; for even with her memory gone, a little more of it each day - her children taken, her house, her flowerbeds, belongings, clothes - their games in the communal drawing room were a reality her afflic ...Show more
Cheating at Canasta (short stories) by William Trevor
Category: Fiction
'No matter what,' Julia had said, aware then of what was coming, 'let's always play cards.' And they did; for even with her memory gone, a little more of it each day - her children taken, her house, her flowerbeds, belongings, clothes - their games in the communal drawing room were a reality her afflict ...Show more
Death in Summer by William Trevor
Category: Fiction
The haunting story of how a baby is snatched one afternoon from the garden of a delightful English house by a disturbed young woman. The baby's father, Thaddeus, is a widower who never loved his deceased wife, and the young woman is a victim of herself.
Elizabeth Alone by William Trevor
Category: Fiction | Series: William Trevor Backlist Novels
Elizabeth Alone by William Trevor - a powerful and moving novel from one of the world's finest writers After nineteen years of marriage, three children and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabeth Aidallbery has to go to hospital for an emergency operation. From her hospital ...Show more
Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
Category: Fiction
'You're beautiful', Johnny told her and so, full of hope, seventeen-year-old Felicia crosses the Irish Sea to England to find her lover and tell him she is pregnant. Desperately searching for Johnny in the bleak post-industrial Midlands, she is, instead, found by Mr Hilditch, a strange and lonely man, a ...Show more
Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
Category: Fiction
William Trevor's Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking. Felicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. She steals away from a small Irish town and drifts through the industrial English Midlands, searching for the boyfriend who left her. Instead she meets up with the fat, fiftyish, unfailingly reas ...Show more
Fools of Fortune by William Trevor
Category: Fiction | Series: William Trevor Backlist Novels
Fools of Fortune by William Trevor - a classic early novel from one of the world's greatest writers Winner of the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel of the Year Murder and revenge during the Irish Civil War. The Quintons have lived in the old house in Cork for hundreds of years. Though Anglo-Irish Protestan ...Show more