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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 ..."






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 ..."






The Fall of Light
by Niall Williams
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2003 by Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-446-67987-9, ISBN: 0-446-67987-9

"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 ..."






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 ..."






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 ..."






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  ..."






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






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."






As It Is In Heaven(Updated)
by Niall Williams
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2000 by Pan Books Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-330-37531-3, ISBN: 0-330-37531-8

"It seems right that the lovers in Niall Williams's As It Is in Heaven hail from Italy and Ireland, those sentimental favorites among nations. Williams won kudos and laurels, fans and fame for his first novel, Four Letters of Love, and his second finds him once again illuminating a simple love affair with his own special brand of fine and even brave mawkishness. Dubliner Stephen Griffin, though possessed of a "thin and long" body, is st ..."






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."






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 ..."






Four Letters of Love
by Niall Williams
Paperback, Published 1998 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux
ISBN-13: 978-0-9652395-5-4, ISBN: 0-9652395-5-1






This Is Happiness
(Paperback)
by Niall Williams
Paperback, Published 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-63557-631-3, ISBN: 1-63557-631-8






This is Happiness
by Niall Williams
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-63557-421-0, ISBN: 1-63557-421-8

"Although we didn't know it then, that summer, a young man, Ciaran MacMathuna, would roll down from Dublin to Clare, to call to houses, to step inside back doorways into flagged kitchens with open hearths and no electricity, and with the help ..."






Only Say the Word
(Paperback)
by Niall Williams, Pan Macmillan
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2013 by Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom
ISBN-13: 978-1-4472-4266-6, ISBN: 1-4472-4266-1

"Only Say the Word tells Jim's story, and the story of the people and places in his life, as he moves from childhood to marriage and fatherhood, from early days spent in County Clare to early adulthood in America, and back to Clare once more ..."






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
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014
by Niall Williams
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2014 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13: 978-1-4088-5203-3, ISBN: 1-4088-5203-9

"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 ..."






John(1st Edition)
by Niall Williams, John Williams
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2009 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-9678-3, ISBN: 0-7475-9678-6

"What invisible drama plays, what passes to and fro in the columns of air above them, none knows, but the disciples think: perhaps the time is arrived at last. Aged, blind and perilously frail, John the Apostle has walked ten thousand miles to tell of love. In a hundred years he has lived to witness sights and scenes that now cloud his mind. Of his followers, there are few remaining, banished with him to an island where they wait as stor ..."






John
A Novel
by Niall Williams
Paperback, Published 2008 by Bloomsbury
ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-9581-6, ISBN: 0-7475-9581-X






Boy In The World(Updated)
by Niall Williams
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2008 by Harper
ISBN-13: 978-0-00-721346-7, ISBN: 0-00-721346-8

"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."



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