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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
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
Miss Gomez and the Brethren by William Trevor
Category: Fiction | Series: William Trevor Backlist Novels
Miss Gomez and the Brethren by William Trevor - a classic early novel from one of the world's greatest writers. "Like Rembrandt, Trevor looks long but charitably upon his creations ...his understanding of human nature is acute". (Sunday Times). Beryl Tuke, whiling time away in the Thistle Arms with gin ...Show more
Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel by William Trevor
Category: Fiction | Series: William Trevor Backlist Novels
Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writers. The probings of an outsider bring havoc to a crumbling Dublin hotel. What was the tragedy that turned O'Neill's hotel from plush establishment into a dingy house of disrepute? Ivy Eckdorf is ...Show more
Nights at the Alexandra by William Trevor
Category: Fiction | Series: William Trevor Backlist Novels
Nights at the Alexandra by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writers. A brief encounter in wartime Ireland - the memory of which lasts a lifetime. In a small town in Ireland middle-aged Harry looks back on his wartime adolescence when he fetched and carried for the be ...Show more
Other People's Worlds by William Trevor
Category: Fiction | Series: William Trevor Backlist Novels
Other People's Worlds by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writers. What chance has a nice middle-class woman got against a determined conman? 47-year-old widow, Julia, is about to remarry, much to the delight and relief of her daughters. But her mother has suspicions ...Show more
The Boarding House by William Trevor
Category: Fiction | Series: William Trevor Backlist Novels
The Boarding House by William Trevor - a darkly comic novel by one of the world's best writers. William Bird has always taken in boarders who are on the fringes of society: the petty conman, the immigrant who's never been able to fit in, the blustering officer who really doesn't know what's what , and t ...Show more
The Love Department by William Trevor
Category: Fiction | Series: William Trevor Backlist Novels
The Love Department by William Trevor - a darkly comic novel about a thief of the heart, by one of the world's best writers. From the offices of her Love Department, Lady Dolores cures the heartaches of the lonely wives of Wimbledon with inimitable flourish and finesse. When her newest protege, the some ...Show more
The Old Boys by William Trevor
Category: Fiction | Series: William Trevor Backlist Novels
The Old Boys by William Trevor - a novel of power, revenge, love and the failure of love from one of the world's best writers. A group of septuagenarians revive schoolboy conflicts in the election of the President of the Old Boys Association. Jaraby expects to get the job, but he reckons without the bit ...Show more
The Silence in the Garden by William Trevor
Category: Fiction | Series: William Trevor Backlist Novels
The Silence in the Garden by William Trevor - a classic early novel by one of the world's greatest writers. Family secrets take their toll on the children of an old Irish family. In the summer of 1904 Sarah Pollenfax, the daughter of an impecunious clergyman, arrives at Carriglas, an island off the coas ...Show more
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