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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
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
Felicia's Journey by William Trevor
Category: Classics
'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
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
Julius Caesar: The Pelican Shakespeare by William Shakespeare; A. R. Braunmuller (Series edited by); Stephen Orgel (Series edited by); William Montgomery (Editor); Douglas Trevor (Introduction by)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: The\Pelican Shakespeare Ser.
Julius Caesarby William ShakespeareJulius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the conspiracy against the Roman dictator of the same name, his assassination and its aftermath. It is one of several Roman plays that he wrote, based on true events f ...Show more
Last Stories by William Trevor
Category: Fiction
*A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller*'What a writer he was; he could flip over a sentence so gently, and showthe underbelly in a heartbeat. His work is always quietly compassionate' Elizabeth StroutIn this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes into the de ...Show more
Last Stories by William Trevor
Category: Fiction
*A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller* 'What a writer he was; he could flip over a sentence so gently, and showthe underbelly in a heartbeat. His work is always quietly compassionate' Elizabeth StroutIn this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes into the ...Show more
Last Stories by William Trevor
Category: Fiction
The beloved and acclaimed William Trevor's last ten stories With a career that spanned more than half a century, William Trevor is regarded as one of the best writers of short stories in the English language. Now, in Last Stories, the master storyteller delivers ten exquisitely rendered tales--nine of w ...Show more
Last Stories by William Trevor
Category: Fiction
With a career that spanned more than half a century, William Trevor is regarded as one of the best writers of short stories in the English language. Now, in Last Stories, the master storyteller delivers ten exquisitely rendered tales-nine of which have never been published in book form-that illuminate t ...Show more
Love and Summer by William Trevor
Category: Fiction
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 were said to own half the town; and, in any case, he had ...Show more
Love and Summer by William Trevor
Category: Fiction
'A master of both language and storytelling' HILARY MANTEL'Compact and ordinary, it was a town in a hollow that had grown up there for no reason that anyone knew or wondered about . . .' Rathmoye, Ireland, in the middle of the last century, and into town comes a stranger on the day of Eileen Connulty's ...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