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William Trevor
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…
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Leonard Broom, F. L. Jones, Patrick McDonnell, Trevor Williams
Originally published in 1980, The Inheritance of Inequality is an important contribution to the study of social mobility in Australia. The book is based on findings from a survey of…
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Parry's life began two hundred and twenty years ago. The Revolutionary Wars against France and Napoleon were just beginning. His naval career started in wartime and lasted throughout the next…
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Offers a comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of William Trevor – .
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The Spy Academy sees five perpetual teenagers protecting the world from evil. With its flashbacks to World War 2 and the Cold War, The Spy Academy entertains readers of all…
Trevor B Williams
In 2014, the destruction of the three outer planets has made it clear - Earth is doomed. SETI scientists Jennifer and Sam as well as South African business tycoon Muzie…
Trevor M Williams
In the canvas of life, we often wish it were simple as black and white: self-explained, and a step-by-step guide for us to follow along the way. However, all of…
Trevor I. Williams
Details the scientific developments and technological advances in a variety of fields, including electronics, energy, aeronautics, and computers, in the light of social, economic, and political trends.
Sir Robert Robinson was among the last of the great organic chemists in the chemical tradition, achieving brilliant results with extremely simple apparatus. This work examines his early student days…
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Trevor Phoenix: The Making Of A Young KingPin is a gritty, urban fiction novel that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the criminal underworld of the city. The story…
Gregory A Schirmer
William Trevor is a master of contemporary fiction. He writes with equal authority about the frustrations of life in remote corners of Ireland, and the hollowness of life is prosperous…
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A Study Guide for William Trevor’s The Distant Past, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
This collection of 12 beautifully rendered tales is an elegant, heartbreaking book about men and women and their missed opportunities. A New York Times Notable Book.
From the bestselling author of The Story of Lucy Gault, Death in Summer, After Rain, and Felicia’s Journey comes a collection of short fiction. Trevor is a regular contributor to…
From the bestselling author of After Rain cones a stunning collection of short stories that captures the nuances of rural and middle-class life in the Ireland that Trevor knows so…
A title in which, a waiter divulges a shocking life of crime to his ex-wife; a woman repeats the story of her parents’ unstable marriage after a horrible tragedy; a…
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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 somewhat naive…
William Trevor’s Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking.
Mrs. Emily Delahunty-a mysterious and not entirely trustworthy former madam-quietly runs a pensione in the Italian countryside and writes romance novels while…
Jaraby expects to get the job, but he reckons without the bitterness of Nox, who still remembers the humiliations of his school years. And when Jaraby’s son gets into trouble…
The author is described as ‘the greatest living writer of short stories in English language’ by New Yorker and acclaimed for his haunting and profound insights into human heart. This…
In a dark and atmospheric novel, three tragedies strike one man’s household during a stormy summer in the country.
An unmarried Irish girl, pregnant and penniless, drifting through the industrial English Midlands in search of the boyfriend who left her, instead meets Mr. Hilditch, fat, fiftyish, unfailingly reasonable–who is…
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this stunning novel from the author of Felicia’s Journey is a brilliant, subtle, and moving story of love, guilt, and forgiveness set in early…
Three people are frozen in a conspiracy of silence that prevents love’s consummation; a nine-year-old dreams that a movie part heals her fragmented family life; a brother and sister forge…
Suitable for those who enjoyed The Story of Lucy Gault and Love and Summer , this title deals with themes of missed opportunities, the inevitability of change and the powerful…
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…
Ireland has always been a nation of story-tellers. This magnificent anthology chronicles the development of a rich literary tradition, from the earliest folk-tales to James Joyce, Liam O'Flaherty, and the…
It is summer and a stranger has come to quiet Rathmoye. He is noticed by Ellie, the young convent girl, who is married to Dillahan, a farmer still mourning his…
‘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…
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…
An Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man, but finds release through secret meetings with a man who shares her passion for Russian novels.
Features the awkward, lonely, curious teenager Timothy Gedge as he wanders around the bland seaside town of Dynmouth. Timothy takes a prurient interest in the lives of the adults there…
Three of William Trevor’s early novels that established his name as a master of the genre. In The Old Boys , a group of septuagenarians revive schoolboy conflicts. In The…
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Here we encounter a blind piano tuner whose wonderful memories of his first wife are cruelly distorted by his second; a woman in a difficult marriage who must choose between…
Summer, 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to glens and woods above Lahardane - the home her family is being forced to abandon. She knows Gaults are no longer welcome in…
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…
Beryl Tuke, whiling time away in the Thistle Arms with gin and cheap romances, and Alban Roche at Bassett’s Petstore are among the street’s dream-ridden survivors. A new arrival, Miss…
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…
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…
Shortly after the First World War, an informer’s body is found on the estate of the Quintons, a wealthy Irish family. The British Black and Tans, led by a zealous…
In a small town in Ireland middle-aged Harry looks back on his wartime adolescence when he fetched and carried for beautiful young English woman who had taken over the big…
In the summer of 1904 Sarah Pollenfax, arrives at Carriglas, an island off the coast of Cork, to act as governess for her distant cousins. It’s a magical time in…