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William Trevor


William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, and spent his childhood in provincial Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin. He has written many novels and short story collections and has won many prizes, including the Hawthornden Prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. His most recent novel, The Story of Lucy Gault, was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread Fiction Prize. In 2002 he was knighted for his services to literature. He lives in Devon, England.

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The Hill Bachelors
Written by William Trevor

eBook | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36739-6 (0-307-36739-8)

January 14, 2011 | $13.99

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The Hill Bachelors
Written by William Trevor

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307367396
Our Price: $13.99


From the pre-eminent author of Felicia’s Journey and Death in Summer, the first major collection of stories since the highly acclaimed After Rain.

With understatement and startling precision William Trevor writes about longing and sadness, the loving and the lonely, those who barely have control over their lives and those who have...

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Felicia's Journey
Written by William Trevor

eBook | 224 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36742-6 (0-307-36742-8)

January 7, 2011 | $13.99

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Felicia's Journey
Written by William Trevor

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307367426
Our Price: $13.99


Full of hope, seventeen-year old Felicia crosses the Irish sea to the English Midlands in search of her lover Johnny to tell him she is pregnant. Unable to find him, alone and desperate, she is found instead by Mr. Hilditch, an obese catering manger, collector and befriender of homeless girls, who...

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After Rain
Written by William Trevor

eBook | 220 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36740-2 (0-307-36740-1)

December 22, 2010 | $13.99

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After Rain
Written by William Trevor

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307367402
Our Price: $13.99


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 our lives. In the rain-washed Italian hills, a forgotten artist's Annunciation brings light...

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Death In Summer
Written by William Trevor

eBook | 224 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36741-9 (0-307-36741-X)

December 17, 2010 | $13.99

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Death In Summer
Written by William Trevor

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307367419
Our Price: $13.99


From the winner of the 1999 David Cohen British Literature Prize — the richest literary award in the UK — comes an unforgettably chilling novel, written with the compassion and artistry that define Trevor's fiction.

There were three deaths that summer. The first was Letitia's, shocking and sudden, leaving her husband haunted...

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The Story of Lucy Gault
Written by William Trevor

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36604-7 (0-307-36604-9)

November 5, 2010 | $13.99

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The Story of Lucy Gault
Written by William Trevor

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307366047
Our Price: $13.99


“Dear Readers and Booksellers: If you have not yet experienced the great pleasure of a story by William Trevor, I urge you to read this new novel, and to set it in pride of place in your stores. Because the haunting story of Lucy Gault will not fail to capture...

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A Bit on the Side
Written by William Trevor

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-36605-4 (0-307-36605-7)

October 15, 2010 | $13.99

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A Bit on the Side
Written by William Trevor

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307366054
Our Price: $13.99


William Trevor’s stunning new collection of stories displays this renowned craftsman at the peak of his powers. A middle-aged couple meet in a theatre bar for a squalid blind date; a disappointed priest fears an innocent young girl may run away from home; two self-certain sisters visit a newly widowed local...

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Cheating at Canasta
Written by William Trevor

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-36603-0 (0-307-36603-0)

August 13, 2010 | $13.99

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Cheating at Canasta
Written by William Trevor

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307366030
Our Price: $13.99


A husband sits in Harry’s Bar in Venice, thinking of his wife–lost to him now–whose plea has brought him back to one of their favourite haunts. At another table, a young couple quarrel. “Cheating at Canasta” is the title story of William Trevor’s new collection, his first since the highly acclaimed...

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Love and Summer
Written by William Trevor

Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39841-3 (0-307-39841-2)

June 15, 2010 | $21.00

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Love and Summer
Written by William Trevor

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307398413
Our Price: $21.00
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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 stranger begins photographing the mourners at Mrs. Connulty’s funeral. Florian Kilderry couldn’t know that the...

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Love and Summer
Written by William Trevor

Hardcover | 224 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39840-6 (0-307-39840-4)

August 25, 2009 | $32.00

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Love and Summer
Written by William Trevor

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307398406
Our Price: $32.00
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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 stranger begins photographing the mourners at Mrs. Connulty’s funeral. Florian Kilderry couldn’t know that the...

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Love and Summer
Written by William Trevor

eBook | 224 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37316-8 (0-307-37316-9)

August 25, 2009 | $13.99

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Love and Summer
Written by William Trevor

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307373168
Our Price: $13.99


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 stranger begins photographing the mourners at Mrs. Connulty’s funeral. Florian Kilderry couldn’t know that the...

Also available as a hardcover and a trade paperback.

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Cheating at Canasta
Written by William Trevor

Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-39665-5 (0-307-39665-7)

September 16, 2008 | $21.00

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Cheating at Canasta
Written by William Trevor

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307396655
Our Price: $21.00
   Quantity: 1 


A husband sits in Harry’s Bar in Venice, thinking of his wife–lost to him now–whose plea has brought him back to one of their favourite haunts. At another table, a young couple quarrel. “Cheating at Canasta” is the title story of William Trevor’s new collection, his first since the highly acclaimed...

Also available as an eBook.

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A Bit on the Side
Written by William Trevor

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-676-97670-0 (0-676-97670-0)

September 13, 2005 | $21.00

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A Bit on the Side
Written by William Trevor

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780676976700
Our Price: $21.00
   Quantity: 1 


William Trevor’s stunning new collection of stories displays this renowned craftsman at the peak of his powers. A middle-aged couple meet in a theatre bar for a squalid blind date; a disappointed priest fears an innocent young girl may run away from home; two self-certain sisters visit a newly widowed local...

Also available as an eBook.

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The Story of Lucy Gault
Written by William Trevor

Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97546-8 (0-676-97546-1)

September 30, 2003 | $21.00

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The Story of Lucy Gault
Written by William Trevor

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780676975468
Our Price: $21.00
   Quantity: 1 


In the early morning of June the twenty-first, nineteen twenty-one, three arsonists — shadows in the night -- arrive at Lahardane, the home of Captain Everard Gault, his wife, Heloise, and daughter, Lucy. The sheepdogs that alarmed the Gaults of previous trespasses had since been poisoned. On this occasion, though, it...

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The Hill Bachelors
Written by William Trevor

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97330-3 (0-676-97330-2)

October 9, 2001 | $19.95

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The Hill Bachelors
Written by William Trevor

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780676973303
Our Price: $19.95
   Quantity: 1 


From the pre-eminent author of Felicia’s Journey and Death in Summer, the first major collection of stories since the highly acclaimed After Rain.

With understatement and startling precision William Trevor writes about longing and sadness, the loving and the lonely, those who barely have control over their lives and those who have...

Also available as an eBook.

book cover
Death In Summer
Written by William Trevor

Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97236-8 (0-676-97236-5)

September 14, 1999 | $19.95

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Death In Summer
Written by William Trevor

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780676972368
Our Price: $19.95
   Quantity: 1 


From the winner of the 1999 David Cohen British Literature Prize — the richest literary award in the UK — comes an unforgettably chilling novel, written with the compassion and artistry that define Trevor's fiction.

There were three deaths that summer. The first was Letitia's, shocking and sudden, leaving her husband haunted...

Also available as an eBook.

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