A Bit on the Side is William Trevor's first collection of stories since the award-winning The Hill Bachelors was published in 2000. Tender, touching and beautifully humane, the dozen new stories contained here explore the subject of adultery, and tell of secret passions, domestic infidelities, office romances, and the broken and unbroken rules of love. Sitting with the Dead....
A Bit on the Side is William Trevor's first collection of stories since the award-winning The Hill Bachelors was published in 2000. Tender, touching and beautifully humane, the dozen new stories contained here explore the subject of adultery, and tell of secret passions, domestic infidelities, office romances, and the broken and unbroken rules of love. Sitting with the Dead....
A collection of 12 stories, mostly set in Ireland. The title story is a small, sad piece, about a woman holidaying alone in an Italian hotel. The Piano Tuner's Wives. A Friendship. Timothy's Birthday. Child's Play. A Bit of Business. After Rain. Widows. Gilbert's Mother. The Potato Dealer. Lost Ground. A Day. Marrying Damian.
A collection of 12 stories, mostly set in Ireland. The title story is a small, sad piece, about a woman holidaying alone in an Italian hotel. The Piano Tuner's Wives. A Friendship. Timothy's Birthday. Child's Play. A Bit of Business. After Rain. Widows. Gilbert's Mother. The Potato Dealer. Lost Ground. A Day. Marrying Damian.
Cheating at Canasta is the title story of William Trevor's new collection, his first since the highly acclaimed A Bit on the Side (2004), and its themes of missed opportunities, the inevitability of change and the powerful but fragmentary quality of our memories are entirely characteristic of his unparalleled oeuvre.. The Dressmaker’s Child. The Room. Men of Ireland. Cheating...
Cheating at Canasta is the title story of William Trevor's new collection, his first since the highly acclaimed A Bit on the Side (2004), and its themes of missed opportunities, the inevitability of change and the powerful but fragmentary quality of our memories are entirely characteristic of his unparalleled oeuvre. The Dressmaker’s Child. The Room. Men of Ireland. Cheating at...
William Trevor is one of the renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as 'the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language' by the New Yorker and acclaimed for his haunting and profound insights into the human heart. Here is the ultimate collection of his short fiction, with dozens of tales spanning his career and ranging from the moving to the...
William Trevor is one of the renowned figures in contemporary literature, described as 'the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language' by the New Yorker and acclaimed for his haunting and profound insights into the human heart. Here is the ultimate collection of his short fiction, with dozens of tales spanning his career and ranging from the moving to the...
There were three deaths that summer. The first was Letitia's, leaving her husband Thaddeus to cope with their baby alone. The next death came later, after Thaddeus's mother-in-law had helped him to interview the young women who had answered their advertisement for a nanny. None was suitable so Letitia's mother moved in herself.
There were three deaths that summer. The first was Letitia's, leaving her husband Thaddeus to cope with their baby alone. The next death came later, after Thaddeus's mother-in-law had helped him to interview the young women who had answered their advertisement for a nanny. None was suitable so Letitia's mother moved in herself.
Novel. Awards: Whitbread Prize. Young and pregnant, Felicia leaves her Irish hometown to search for her boyfriend in the English Midlands, only to fall in with the obese fiftyish Mr. Hilditch.
Novel. Awards: Whitbread Prize. Young and pregnant, Felicia leaves her Irish hometown to search for her boyfriend in the English Midlands, only to fall in with the obese fiftyish Mr. Hilditch.
To my mind Trevor's best novel and a very fine one. —Graham Greene. In this award-winning novel, an informer''s body is found on the estate of a wealthy Irish family shortly after the First World War, and an appalling cycle of revenge is set in motion. Led by a zealous sergeant, the Black and Tans set fire to the family home, and only young Willie and his mother escape alive....
"To my mind Trevor's best novel and a very fine one." — Graham Greene. In this award-winning novel, an informer''s body is found on the estate of a wealthy Irish family shortly after the First World War, and an appalling cycle of revenge is set in motion. Led by a zealous sergeant, the Black and Tans set fire to the family home, and only young Willie and his mother escape...
It's summer and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn't go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger appears on his bicycle and begins photographing the mourners at Mrs. Connulty's funeral. Florian Kilderry couldn't know that the Connultys are said to own half the town: he has only come to Rathmoye to photograph the scorched remains of its burnt- out cinema. A few...
It's summer and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn't go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger appears on his bicycle and begins photographing the mourners at Mrs. Connulty's funeral. Florian Kilderry couldn't know that the Connultys are said to own half the town: he has only come to Rathmoye to photograph the scorched remains of its burnt- out cinema. A few...
William Trevor has been acclaimed as the greatest contemporary writer of short stories in the English language, likened to Chekhov for his insights into human nature. These three tales of obsession, heartbreak, silent sorrow and the small tragedies of ordinary lives are profound, immaculate and beautiful. This book includes The Mark-2 Wife, The Time of Year and Cheating at Canasta.
William Trevor has been acclaimed as the greatest contemporary writer of short stories in the English language, likened to Chekhov for his insights into human nature. These three tales of obsession, heartbreak, silent sorrow and the small tragedies of ordinary lives are profound, immaculate and beautiful. This book includes The Mark-2 Wife, The Time of Year and Cheating at Canasta.
Publication details not specified. Jenny, fifteen and a senior at Foxfield Comprehensive, is infatuated with her English teacher, Mr. Tennyson, and dreams about him constantly. All the senior girls know of his affair with a former student, Sarah Spence. That makes him even more glamorous to Jenny. She is certain his wife and children are burdens holding him back from his true...
What was the tragedy that turned O'Neill's hotel from a plush establishment into a dingy house of disrepute? Ivy Eckdorf is determined to find out. A professional photographer, she has come to Dublin convinced that a tragic and beautiful tale lies behind the facade of this crumbling hotel.
Mrs. Emily Delahunty-a mysterious and not entirely trustworthy former madam-quietly runs a pensione in the Italian countryside and writes romance novels while she muses on her checkered past. Then one day her world is changed forever as the train she is riding in is blown up by terrorists. Taken to a local hospital to recuperate, she befriends the other survivors-an elderly...
Hailed as "probably the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language" by The New Yorker and "an extraordinarily mellifluous writer, seemingly incapable of composing an ungraceful sentence" by The New York Times Book Review, William Trevor is one of our most elegaic chroniclers of loss. Set in a provincial Irish town against the backdrop of the Second World...
Hailed as "probably the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language" by The New Yorker and "an extraordinarily mellifluous writer, seemingly incapable of composing an ungraceful sentence" by The New York Times Book Review, William Trevor is one of our most elegaic chroniclers of loss. Set in a provincial Irish town against the backdrop of the Second World...
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 about Francis which she keeps to herself. Perhaps wrongly: if she'd shared...
The Piano Tuner’s Wives. A Friendship. Timothy’s Birthday. Child’s Play. A Bit of Business. After Rain. Widows. Gilbert’s Mother. The Potato Dealer. Lost Ground. A Day. Marrying Damian. Three People. Of the Cloth. Good News. The Mourning. A Friend in the Trade. Low Sunday, 1950. Le Visiteur. The Virgin’s Gift. Death of a Professor. Against the Odds. The Telephone Game. The Hill...
The Piano Tuner’s Wives. A Friendship. Timothy’s Birthday. Child’s Play. A Bit of Business. After Rain. Widows. Gilbert’s Mother. The Potato Dealer. Lost Ground. A Day. Marrying Damian. Three People. Of the Cloth. Good News. The Mourning. A Friend in the Trade. Low Sunday, 1950. Le Visiteur. The Virgin’s Gift. Death of a Professor. Against the Odds. The Telephone Game. The Hill...
Awards: The Man Booker Prize (nominee), Whitbread Prize. A small, pretty seaside town is harshly exposed by a young boy's curiosity. His prurient interest, oddly motivated, leaves few people unaffected - and the consequence cannot be ignored. This is a remarkable account of the evil that can lurk in the most harmless setting and for readers now it has the startling ability to...
Awards: The Man Booker Prize (nominee), Whitbread Prize. A small, pretty seaside town is harshly exposed by a young boy's curiosity. His prurient interest, oddly motivated, leaves few people unaffected - and the consequence cannot be ignored. This is a remarkable account of the evil that can lurk in the most harmless setting and for readers now it has the startling ability to...
His first collection since the bestselling After Rain, William Trevor's The Hill Bachelors is a heartbreaking book about men and women and their missed opportunities: four people live in a suburban house, frozen in a conspiracy of silence that prevents love's consummation; a nine-year-old dreams that a part in a movie will heal her fragmented family life; a brother and sister...
His first collection since the bestselling After Rain, William Trevor's The Hill Bachelors is a heartbreaking book about men and women and their missed opportunities: four people live in a suburban house, frozen in a conspiracy of silence that prevents love's consummation; a nine-year-old dreams that a part in a movie will heal her fragmented family life; a brother and sister...
The stunning new novel from highly acclaimed author William Trevor is a brilliant, subtle, and moving story of love, guilt, and forgiveness. The Gault family leads a life of privilege in early 1920s Ireland, but the threat of violence leads the parents of nine-year-old Lucy to decide to leave for England, her mother's home. Lucy cannot bear the thought of leaving Lahardane,...
The stunning new novel from highly acclaimed author William Trevor is a brilliant, subtle, and moving story of love, guilt, and forgiveness. The Gault family leads a life of privilege in early 1920s Ireland, but the threat of violence leads the parents of nine-year-old Lucy to decide to leave for England, her mother's home. Lucy cannot bear the thought of leaving Lahardane,...
Comprises two novels. The first, "Reading Turgenev"; The second, "My House in Umbria ". Two beautiful, memorable novels in one volume, both focussing on women who retreat into their imaginations until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurred. In 'Reading Turgenev', which was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, an Irish country girl is trapped in a...
Comprises two novels. The first, "Reading Turgenev"; The second, "My House in Umbria ". Two beautiful, memorable novels in one volume, both focussing on women who retreat into their imaginations until the boundaries between what is real and what is not become blurred. In 'Reading Turgenev', which was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, an Irish country girl is trapped in a...
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