"The Collected Stories" - a stunning volume of William Trevor's unforgettable short stories. William Trevor is one of the most 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 haunt[...]

"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 [...]

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 tha[...]

"Penguin Decades" bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work[...]

"Two Lives: Reading Turgenev & My House in Umbria" - two novels by William Trevor. "Evocative and haunting. Trevor writes like an angel, but is determined to wring your heart". ("Daily Mail"). "Marvellous, superb. As rich and moving as anything I have read in years. When I reach the end...I wanted t[...]

A new collection from ?the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language? ("The New Yorker")
The publication of a new book by William Trevor is a true literary event. One of our finest chroniclers of the human condition, Trevor's precise and unflinching insights into the lives[...]

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[...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Prote[...]

'You're beautiful,' Johnny told her. 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 [...]