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Four Letters of Love
A Novel
by Niall Williams, Christine Breen
Hardcover, 257 Pages, Published 1997 by Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-15817-0, ISBN: 0-374-15817-7

"An Irish author presents an evocative debut novel about a man who leaves his family to paint pictures at God's command, disappearing into west Ireland, where he meets a young woman grieving over her afflicted brother. A first novel.""






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: 978-1-63557-420-3, 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
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014
by Niall Williams
Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2014 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13: 978-1-4088-5202-6, ISBN: 1-4088-5202-0

"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 ..."






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 ..."






Only Say the Word
by Niall Williams
Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2004 by Picador
ISBN-13: 978-0-330-43395-2, ISBN: 0-330-43395-4

"Jim Foley loves his parents, his brother, his sister, Dickens and God; later, he loves Kate -- enough to make her his wife and to shape his life around her -- and later still, he loves his children, Jack and Hannah. This is Jim's story, from his early days in County Clare to early adulthood in America, and then back to Clare again. From happy-ever-after to death-do-us-part; from beginnings to endings to fresh starts; from child, to husb ..."






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 ..."






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 ..."






The Luck of the Irish(1st Edition)
Our Life in County Clare
by Niall Williams, Christine Breen
Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2003 by Soho Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-56947-022-0, ISBN: 1-56947-022-7

"Ten years ago, Niall and Christine left their careers in New York City for a life in Kiltumper cottage-once Christine's grandfather's stone farmhouse-outside the tiny village of Kilmihil in County Clare. They wanted to lead a more authentic life, to form part of a community, to write and paint and raise children in the scenic Irish countryside where they felt, somehow, they belonged.They have renovated the abandoned cottage, created a g ..."






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 ..."






The Fall of Light
by Niall Williams
Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2001 by Picador
ISBN-13: 978-0-330-48701-6, ISBN: 0-330-48701-9

"This story begins in Ireland, in the bleak years of the mid-nineteenth century."






As It Is in Heaven as It Is in Heaven
by Niall Williams
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 1999 by Oxmoor House
ISBN-13: 978-0-446-93038-3, ISBN: 0-446-93038-5

"Niall Williams. 6. He was called Moses Mooney. He had a great fluff of white beard and walked down the streets of Miltown Malbay with his head held backward to let it flow. He had two coats and wore them both in winter, one on top of the other, so the fullness of his figure as he came towards you ... years old, that Moses Mooney realized what he was to do with his life and returned from the shores of Brazil to Miltown Malbay with t ..."






When Summer's in the Meadow(1st Edition)
Our Life in Clare
by Niall Williams, Christine Breen
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1989 by Soho Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-939149-23-0, ISBN: 0-939149-23-0

"Details the experiences of two novice farmers on a farm in western Ireland, relating their experiences at animal husbandry, their attempts to have a child, and their assimilation into Irish life"






O Come Ye Back to Ireland(1st Edition)
Our First Year in County Clare
by Niall Williams, Christine Breen
Hardcover, 233 Pages, Published 1987 by Soho Pr Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-939149-07-0, ISBN: 0-939149-07-9

"Niall and Christine left their careers in New York City for a simpler, more authentic life in a cottage outside the tiny village of Kilmihil in County Clare. "Their tale is a delightful romance."—The New York Times Book Review "






Boy in the World
by Niall Williams
Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2008 by Harpercollins Uk
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-728360-6, ISBN: 0-00-728360-1

"A beautiful and moving novel about a young boy’s journey from childhood to adulthood from the bestselling author of Four Letters of Love"






Boy and Man
by Niall Williams
Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2008 by Harpercollins
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-721347-4, ISBN: 0-00-721347-6

"After the critically acclaimed 'Boy in the World', comes the follow-up novel from bestselling author, Niall Williams."






John
by Niall Williams
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2008 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-9436-9, ISBN: 0-7475-9436-8






Boy in the World
by Niall Williams
Hardcover, 344 Pages, Published 2007 by Harpercollins
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-721345-0, ISBN: 0-00-721345-X

"This is the heart-warming tale of a young boy trying to find his way in a changing world, a world where no-one is safe and where terrorists seek to destroy all that civilisation holds dear."






Boy in the World
by Niall Williams
Hardcover, Published 2007 by Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-1-84617-963-1, ISBN: 1-84617-963-7



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