William Trevor

Mrs Malby's liking for a visitor leads to a meeting with four unconventional young people.

A lonely, elderly lady strikes up a friendship with a driving instructor.

The love affair of Irish nationalist politician Charles Stewart Parnell with a married woman, Katherine O'Shea.

An elderly recluse dies in the process of changing her will. The change would have meant that the servants would continue to live in her house - now it seems they will be homeless.

Mr Mockler and Mrs Acland have never met, but gradually Mrs Acland 's ghosts begin to take over Mr Mockler 's life.

Time is playing tricks on Mary. Around her the walls are crumbling- all the houses are being pulled down. Why does she insist on staying, caught in a dream about a family, years ago, out walking in the fields after the harvest? And who was Sarah, that beautiful young girl, whose sister couldn't bear that she was in love?

Mrs Malby's liking for a visitor leads to a meeting with four unconventional young people.

A lonely, elderly lady strikes up a friendship with a driving instructor.

The love affair of Irish nationalist politician Charles Stewart Parnell with a married woman, Katherine O'Shea.

An elderly recluse dies in the process of changing her will. The change would have meant that the servants would continue to live in her house - now it seems they will be homeless.

Mr Mockler and Mrs Acland have never met, but gradually Mrs Acland 's ghosts begin to take over Mr Mockler 's life.

Time is playing tricks on Mary. Around her the walls are crumbling- all the houses are being pulled down. Why does she insist on staying, caught in a dream about a family, years ago, out walking in the fields after the harvest? And who was Sarah, that beautiful young girl, whose sister couldn't bear that she was in love?

Eleanor seems normal enough to her parents and teachers. Why then has she disappeared?

Dr Saint's offer of a free place in his comfortable old-folks' home appears entirely philanthropic to Miss Claythorpe. However, he is suspiciously vague about the treatment that goes with it.

Grania did something 15 years ago that brought her great happiness but also great pain. The events of that day have been a heavy secret to bear that, if discovered, would devastate those closest to her.

A lonely farmer's daughter hopes to find love at the village ballroom.

Timothy Gedge, a socially inept yet intrusive teenage boy, wanders around the dull seaside town of Dynmouth, spying on the town's residents. At first this behaviour is seen as merely annoying, even comical, until people begin to realise that his purpose may not be as innocent as initially thought.

Newlyweds Jackson and Daphne are on honeymoon when they find themselves in the same hotel as Jackson's old headmaster.

When Mrs Hinch, the sinister charlady, decides to move in, General Suffolk fights his last battle.

Isabella and Henry were childhood sweethearts. Isabella dreams of the arrival of a vulgar woman named Emily.

The painful memories of the tragedy that awaited the people of Drimaghleen on 2/11/88 have just begun to fade; Hetty Fortune and her TV documentary team travel there to piece those memories together into a story of horror.

The wife of a public school head becomes gradually aware that her husband has been physically abusing his pupils. Written by the master of late-middle-age morality plays, William Trevor.

Mavie cannot declare her love, because the object of her affections is a very busy man.

"Guilty," pleads Elizabeth, "in marriage, in parenthood, in every close relationship. I have failed!" But should we condemn her as she condemns herself?

A junk dealer is caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between a woman, her husband and his mistress when they sell a piece of their furniture.

Milly and her friends have been going on holiday together ever since they've known each other. This summer they return to one of their favourite haunts, a beautiful Irish country hotel. It's a place full of fond memories for all of them, but on this occasion their sense of ease and comfort is destroyed when a terrible secret is revealed.

An aging school teacher remembers times gone by and thinks about her own past.

Quiet Devonshire school girl Joanna's claim that she saw a tiger in Barrow Woods soon takes hold, in her home, at school and in the national press.

A married man forms a liaison with a woman he meets on a train, and is divorced by his wife who allows him access to their daughters on Sundays, which they usually spend at the zoo.

It is the autumn of 1981 and in Southern Ireland Canon Moran's wife has just died. Three of his daughters come to the funeral, but his youngest and favourite daughter Deirdre stays away ...