The inimitable William Trevor returns with a story of suspicion, guilt, forbidden love and the possibility of starting over. It's summer, and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn't go unnoticed when a dark-haired strange...

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 ...

Lucy Gault has grown up alone after her parents, thinking she was dead, fled their estate during the Irish troubles after World War I. Now, many years later, she unexpectedly faces not only one of the men who persecuted her family, bu...

Here is a new collection of twelve absorbing, deeply compassionate tales that reveal the subtle revenges of love and indifference, the deep wells of affection, and the strange, breathtaking tricks of chance that make up the texture of...

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 looking for a new fri...

Selected as one of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year. Four-time winner of the O. Henry Prize, three-time winner of the Whitbread Award, and five-time nominee for the Booker Prize, William Trevor is one of the...

Penguin Classics is proud to welcome William Trevor—'Ireland's answer to Chekhov' (The Boston Globe) and 'one of the best writers of our era' (The Washington Post)—to our distinguished list of literary masters. In this award-w...

In more than two dozen books, William Trevor has recounted heartbreaking narratives with an extraordinary economy of detail and expression. The stories collected in The Hill Bachelors are cut from this same understated cloth, and r...

"Two Lives offers two superb novels in one volume . . . as rich and moving as anything I have read in years. . . . Marvelous." -The Guardian Presented here are two unforgettable short novels by acclaimed author William Trevo...