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Books by Niall Williams






Four Letters of Love(Reprint)
A Novel
by Niall Williams, John Hurt
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2015 by Bloomsbury Usa
ISBN-13: 978-1-63286-318-8, ISBN: 1-63286-318-9

"Nicholas Coughlan is twelve years old when his father, an Irish civil servant, announces that God has commanded him to become a painter. He abandons the family and a wife who is driven to despair. Years later, Nicholas's own civil-service career is disrupted by tragic news: his father has burned down the house, with all his paintings and himself in it. Isabel Gore is the daughter of a poet. She's a passionate girl, but her brother is th ..."






History of the Rain
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014
by Niall Williams, Brigit Viney
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2015 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13: 978-1-4088-5205-7, ISBN: 1-4088-5205-5

"We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story...Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, in the margin between this world and the next, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father. To find him, enfolded in the mystery of ancestors, Ruthie must first trace the jutting jaw lines, narrow faces and gleamy skin of the Swai ..."






This Is Happiness
(Paperback)
by Niall Williams
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2020 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United Kingdom, London
ISBN-13: 978-1-5266-0935-9, ISBN: 1-5266-0935-5






This Is Happiness
by Niall Williams
Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-63557-420-3, ISBN: 1-63557-420-X

"NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST and REAL SIMPLEA profound and enchanting new novel from Booker Prize-longlisted author Niall Williams about the loves of our lives and the joys of reminiscing. You don’t see rain stop, but you sense it. You sense something has changed in the frequency you’ve been living and you hear the quietness you thought was silence get quieter still, and you raise your head so your eyes can make ..."






History of the Rain(Reprint)
A Novel
by Niall Williams
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2015 by Bloomsbury Usa
ISBN-13: 978-1-62040-770-7, ISBN: 1-62040-770-1

"Longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize"We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. That's how it seems to me, being alive for a little while, the teller and the told."""""So says Ruthie Swain. The bedridden daughter of a dead poet, home from college after a collapse (Something Amiss, the doctors say), she is trying to find her father through stories--and through generations of f ..."






History of the Rain(1st Edition)
A Novel
by Niall Williams
Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2014 by Bloomsbury Usa
ISBN-13: 978-1-62040-647-2, ISBN: 1-62040-647-0

"We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. That's how it seems to me, being alive for a little while, the teller and the told.So says Ruthie Swain. The bedridden daughter of a dead poet, home from college after a collapse (Something Amiss, the doctors say), she is trying to find her father through stories--and through generations of family history in County Clare (the Swains have ..."






John(1st Edition)
A Novel
by Niall Williams
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2008 by Bloomsbury Usa
ISBN-13: 978-1-59691-467-4, ISBN: 1-59691-467-X

"In the tradition of Jim Crace’s Quarantine and Anita Diamant’s The Red Tent, John is a stunning, lyrical reimagining of John the Apostle in the final years of his life, by the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of Four Letters of Love. At a time when Americans remain skeptical about religion but still thirst for spiritual fulfillment, Niall Williams’s extraordinary and masterful new novel reveals a universally appealing message ..."






O Come Ye Back to Ireland(Updated)
Our First Year in County Clare
by Niall Williams, Christine Breen
Paperback, 233 Pages, Published 2003 by Soho Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-939149-22-3, ISBN: 0-939149-22-2

"Our First Year in County Clare Niall Williams, Christine Breen. The drive took us down through Kerry, past Kil- larney and the Lakes, and onto the fabulous scenic wonderland of the ... Recently Schull had begun to establish a name for itself as a West Cork center for pottery, painting and crafts, and its narrow rising main street was a place of bright colors and lively pubs. Down at the harbor a secretive footpath led out along the ..."






When Summer's in the Meadow(1st Edition)
by Niall Williams, Christine Breen
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2003 by Soho Press
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-0-939149-37-7, ISBN: 0-939149-37-0

"This story takes up where O Come Ye Back to Ireland left off. After learning they can't have children, Niall and Christine adopt their only child, Diedre, and continue their story in the pastoral farming community in the wild and beautiful Irish countryside."






The Luck Of The Irish - Our Life In County Clare(1st Edition)
by Niall Williams, Christine Breen, Breen /: Williams
Paperback, 236 Pages, Published 2003 by Soho Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-56947-078-7, ISBN: 1-56947-078-2

"In their fourth book, Williams and Breen, the authors of O Come Ye Back to Ireland, When Summer's in the Meadow, and The Pipes Are Calling chronicle their life and adventure in this beautiful country, where fewer and fewer Irish men and women are lucky enough to be able to live."






The Fall of Light(1st Edition)
by Niall Williams, Christine Breen
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2002 by Warner Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-446-52840-5, ISBN: 0-446-52840-4

"Beginning in Ireland in the early years of the 19th century, the four Foley brothers flee across the country with their father and the large telescope he has stolen. Soon forced apart by the violence of the Irish wilderness, the potato famine, and the promise of America, the brothers find themselves scattered across the world. Their separate adventures unfold in passionate and vivid scenes with gypsies, horse races, sea voyages, and bea ..."






As It Is in Heaven(Reprint)
by Niall Williams
Paperback, 332 Pages, Published 2000 by Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-446-67601-4, ISBN: 0-446-67601-2

"A man content to let life pass him by, schoolteacher Stephen Griffin is about to experience a miracle. For a string quartet from Venice has arrived in County Clare and, with it, worldly and beautiful violinist Gabriella Castoldi, who inspires love in the awkward Stephen. Although the town's blind musician senses its coming, the greengrocer welcomes its sheer joy, and Stephen's ailing father fears its power, none could have foreseen how ..."






As It Is in Heaven(1st Edition)
by Niall Williams, David Feintuch
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 1999 by Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-446-52548-0, ISBN: 0-446-52548-0

"Time has already stopped for Stephen Griffin when he moves into the little house by the sea. Twenty-eight years old and haunted by death, the tall, awkward, shy schoolteacher is Content to care for his father in Dublin and let life pass him by.Then a miracle appears: a string ensemble from Venice and, with it, a violinist named Gabriella Castoldi. Even though the worldly, beautiful musician seems incapable of giving her heart, love seiz ..."






Four Letters of Love(Reprint)
by Niall Williams
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1998 by Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-446-67493-5, ISBN: 0-446-67493-1

"The compelling stories of two Irish brothers intertwine in a heartfelt novel of destiny, acceptance, tragedy and miracles. A "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year."






The Pipes Are Calling - Our Jaunts Through Ireland(1st Edition)
by Niall Williams, Christine Breen, Williams/Breen
Paperback, 222 Pages, Published 1990 by Soho Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-939149-52-0, ISBN: 0-939149-52-4

"There was a little gang of us assembled now, fifteen or so, Americans, Irish, and French, looking out expectantly at the compact little ferry bouncing toward us over the water. Only six of us carried luggage, the rest would return at the whim of the  ..."






The Pipes Are Calling(1st Edition)
Our Jaunts Through Ireland
by Niall Williams, Christine Breen, Takeo Kuroki
Hardcover, 220 Pages, Published 1990 by Soho Pr Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-939149-33-9, ISBN: 0-939149-33-8

"With two-year old Deidre in her baby seat, Niall Williams and Christine Breen take to the backroads and boreens of Ireland in their third book. Illustrated."






This Is Happiness
by Niall Williams
Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-5266-0933-5, ISBN: 1-5266-0933-9

"The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the RainChange is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish that hasn't changed in a thousand years.For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds are lifting. Seven ..."






This Is Happiness
by Niall Williams
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-5266-0936-6, ISBN: 1-5266-0936-3

"The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the RainChange is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish that hasn't changed in a thousand years.For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds are lifting. Seven ..."






Boy and Man
(Paperback)
by Niall Williams
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2008 by Harpercollins
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-725767-6, ISBN: 0-00-725767-8






Only Say the Word
by Niall Williams
Paperback, 263 Pages, Published 2005 by Picador
ISBN-13: 978-0-330-43458-4, ISBN: 0-330-43458-6



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