A Bit On the Side

A Bit of the Side

Author	William Trevor
Country	Ireland
Language	English
Genre	Short story collection
Publisher	Viking Press
Publication date	2004
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages	245 pp.
ISBN	978-0-14-190433-7

A Bit on the Side is a short story collection written by William Trevor, first published by Viking Press in 2004. It comprises twelve short stories arranged in the following order:

"Sitting with the Dead"
"Traditions"
"Justina's Priest"
"An Evening Out"
"Graillis's Legacy"
"Solitude"
"Sacred Statues"
"Rose Wept"
"Big Bucks"
"On the Streets"
"The Dancing-Master's Music"
"A Bit on the Side"

Works by William Trevor

Novels and novellas	A Standard of Behaviour (1958) The Old Boys (1964) The Boarding House (1965) The Love Department (1966) Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel (1969) Miss Gomez and the Brethren (1971) Elizabeth Alone (1973) The Children of Dynmouth (1976) The Distant Past (1979) Other People's Worlds (1980) Fools of Fortune (1983) Nights at the Alexandra (1987) The Silence in the Garden (1988) Two Lives (1991) Felicia's Journey (1994) Death in Summer (1998) The Story of Lucy Gault (2002) Love and Summer (2009)

Short story collections	The Day We Got Drunk on Cake and Other Stories (1967) The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories (1972) Angels at the Ritz and Other Stories (1975) Lovers of their Time (1978) Beyond the Pale (1981) The Stories of William Trevor (1983) The News from Ireland and Other Stories (1986) Family Sins and Other Stories (1989) Outside Ireland: Selected Stories (1992) The Collected Stories (1993, 2003) After Rain (1996) Cocktails an Doney's (1996) The Hill Bachelors (2000) A Bit On the Side (2004) Cheating at Canasta (2007) Bodily Secrets (2007) Collected Stories, Volumes I & II (2009)

Drama	Play for Today: O Fat White Woman (1971) The Old Boys (1971) A Night with Mrs da Tanka (1972) Going Home (1972) Marriages (1973) Scenes from an Album (1981) Screen Two: The Children of Dynmouth (Adaptation and screenplay, 1987)

Non-fiction	A Writer's Ireland: Landscape in Literature (1984) Excursions in the Real World: Memoirs (1993)