Four Letters of Love(Reprint) A Novel by NiallWilliams, 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 NiallWilliams, 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 NiallWilliams 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 NiallWilliams 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 NiallWilliams 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 NiallWilliams 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 NiallWilliams 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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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."
"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."
"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 NiallWilliams 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 ..."
"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 NiallWilliams 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."
"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
..."
"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 NiallWilliams 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 NiallWilliams 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 NiallWilliams Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2008 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-00-725767-6, ISBN: 0-00-725767-8
Only Say the Word by NiallWilliams Paperback, 263 Pages, Published 2005 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-330-43458-4, ISBN: 0-330-43458-6