William Trevor

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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1964
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 41 titles

  • The Old Boys

    The “wryly entertaining” debut novel of old grudges and petty power struggles from the Whitbread Award"winning author of Love and Summer (The New York Times). Graduates of an elite English public school, the septuagenarian members of the Old Bo...

  • The Boarding-house

    A London boarding-house becomes a battle ground in this “dazzling display of character-led fiction” from the award-winning author of The Old Boys (The Independent). William Wagner Bird spent his life collecting lost souls -- dispossessed immigran...

  • The Love Department

    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 fl...

  • The Day We Got Drunk on Cake, and Other Stories

    First Edition, Boley Head/Viking Press, 1967. In near fine condition, in a near fine dustjacket. First published 1967 The Bodley Head present on copyright page, though crossed out with brown marker on title page, Viking Press uncorrected proofs label...

  • Mrs. Eckdorf in O'neill's Hotel

    The denizens of a crumbling Dublin hotel are the subject of a meddling photographer in this Booker Prize"shortlisted “masterpiece” (Irish Times). Once a flourishing establishment, O’Neill’s Hotel has fallen on hard times. The same could be ...

  • Ballroom of Roman

    William Trevor's second book of short stories proves once again that he is the master of the art.
    CONTENTS
    Access To The Children
    Nice Say At School
    The Ballroom Of Romance
    The Forty-Seventh Saturday
    A Happy Family
    Goin...

  • Elizabeth Alone

    Alone together in a London hospital ward, four women take stock of their lives in this “deeply moving novel” by the award-winning author of The Old Boys (The New York Times). At forty-one, the news that she requires a hysterectomy strikes Elizab...

  • Angels at the Ritz

  • The Children of Dynmouth

    Nestle high on cliffs that overlooked a churning sea, the village of Dynmouth seemed to daze in tranquil respectability, untouched by time. Untouched, that is, until 15-year-old Timothy Gedge was transformed from an awkward, irritating child into ...



  • Lovers of Their Time and Other Stories

  • Other People's Worlds

    An Englishwoman is taken in by a duplicitous suitor in this “constantly surprising work” from the Whitbread Award"winning author of Love and Summer (John Updike, The New Yorker). Forty-seven-year-old widow Julia Ferndale can’t believe her go...

  • Beyond the Pale

  • Fools of Fortune

    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-winning novel, an...

  • The Selected Stories of William Trevor

  • The News from Ireland

    Featuring "The News From Ireland"--set on the estate of the Protestant Pulvertafts during the famine years of the 1840s--this collection of short stories exemplifies the qualities of subtlety, honesty and humanity...

  • Nights at the Alexandra

    From the award-winning author of Love and Summer: A short novel about coming of age in WWII-era provincial Ireland that “certainly lingers in the mind” (Harriet Waugh, Spectator). At fifty-eight, Harry is a lifelong bachelor who never left the Ir...

  • The Silence in the Garden

    The Whitbread Award"winning author “demonstrates a master’s touch” in this tale of an aristocratic Irish family’s ruinous path toward modernity (The New York Times). An island estate off the coast of county Cork, Carriglas has been in the R...

  • Family Sins

    In Family Sins, William Trevor brings his tremendous empathy and keen eye for detail to these gemlike tales of country life in Ireland. Here are twelve portraits of everyday folded in crisis-haunted by memory, battered by circumstance. The middle-...

  • Two Lives

    William Trevor's Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking.In Reading Turgenev, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, an Irish country girl is trapped in a loveless marriage with an older man, but finds release through secret meetings w...



  • William Trevor: The Collected Stories

    Tales collected from the seven previous books of an expert craftsman of the short story depict the comforts and frustrations of life in rural Ireland, the complexities of family, and the elusive grace of love. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo....

  • Excursions in the Real World

    These autobiographical tales are about people and places, personal fascinations and enthusiasms, that have remained snagged in William Trevor's memory over the years.

    He writes here of childhood and youth, of his schools and university days, h...

  • Juliet's Story

  • Felicia's Journey

    "Perfectly executed and chilling... a sad and oddly moving tale of lost opportunities and misplaced hopes."" -- The New York Times“Trevor was our twentieth century Chekov." -- Wall Street JournalFelicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. She s...

  • Outside Ireland

  • Cocktails at Doney's

    This is a collection of short stories by William Trevor. Some are humorous stories of Irish lives. Others deal with a world elsewhere, often Italy, but the characters often have difficult, bewildering lives. In 1977, Trevor was awarded an honorary Co...

  • After Rain

    "There is no better short story writer in the English-speaking world." -- Wall Street JournalTwelve remarkable stories by the master storyteller William Trevor.  In this collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered tales, William Trevor plumb...

  • Miss Gomez and the Brethren

    Miss Gomez, a recent convert to the local church, has a feeling that a terrible sex crime will soon take place on Crow Street and warns the residents of that area, yet no one listens to her predictions until a young girl goes missing. Reprint....

  • Death in Summer

    A New York Times Bestseller and Notable Book   From the winner of the 1999 David Cohen British Literature Prize comes an unforgettably chilling novel, written with the compassion and artistry that define Trevor's fiction. There were th...

  • Ireland

    William Trevor's Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking.

    William Trevor has long been hailed as one of the greatest living writers of short fiction. These nineteen stories--selected by Trevor himself from The Collected Stories and After Rai...



  • The Hill Bachelors

    William Trevor's Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking.

    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...

  • The Summer Visitor

    Stories in the Travelman Short Stories series take the reader to places of mystery, fantasy, horror, romance, and corners of the universe yet unexplored. In turn, readers take them on the bus or subway, slip them into briefcases and lunchboxes, and s...

  • The Story of Lucy Gault

    The Gault family leads a life of privilege in early 1920s Ireland, but the threat of violence leads the parents of nine-year-old Lucy to leave Ireland for England, her mother's home. Lucy cannot bear the thought of leaving Lahardane, their country ho...

  • My House in Umbria

    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 she muses on her checker...

  • A Bit on the Side

    William Trevor's Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking.In these twelve stories, 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 schoolgirl reg...

  • Cheating at Canasta

    The publication of a new book by William Trevor is a great literary event. Trevor's last collection, A Bit on the Side, was named a New York Times Notable Book and hailed as one of the Best Books of the Year by papers from coast to coast, including T...

  • Love and Summer

    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 phot...

  • The Collected Stories

    A collection of short stories from celebrated author William Trevor in which he shines a light on the day-to-day life of Ireland and its citizens. From his debut collection, “The Day We Got Drunk on Cake,” published in 1968, to “Family Sin...

  • The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories

    Ireland has been called a nation of story-tellers. "Stories of one kind or another have a way of pressing themselves into Irish conversation, both as entertainment and as a form of communication," writes William Trevor. "For centuries they have been ...

  • Selected Stories

    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 most acclaime...



  • Last Stories

    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 story...

  • The Mark-2 Wife

Award-Winning Books by William Trevor

Felicia's Journey
1994 Costa Book Award -- Book of the Year
1994 Costa Book Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William Trevor has published 41 books.

William Trevor does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Mark-2 Wife, was published in September 2021.

The first book by William Trevor, The Old Boys, was published in January 1964.

No. William Trevor does not write books in series.
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