William Trevor

Last Stories is the final collection of short stories by the master storyteller, William Trevor. In this exquisite collection of ten perceptive and profound tales, Trevor delves into the depths of the human spirit. The stories introduce us to a variety of characters, such as a tutor and his pupil whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again...

A haunting love story by a master storyteller, now a Penguin Essential. 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 first wife. Over the long and warm days, Ellie and the stranger form an illicit attachment. And those...

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 Protestant, they sympathise with the cause of independence and secretly fund Michael Collins' fighters. But one of their workers is an informer to the British, and when he's murdered on their land, though they know nothing...