The Fall of Light by NiallWilliams 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 ..."
"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 ..."
As It Is In Heaven(Updated) by NiallWilliams 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 ..."
"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"
"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 "
This Is Happiness (Paperback) by NiallWilliams Paperback, Published 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-63557-631-3, ISBN: 1-63557-631-8
"With an introduction by John HurtA classic love story and a seminal work of Irish literature that is a testament to romance, magic and the power of true love.In love everything changes, and continues changing all the time. There is no stillness, no stopped clock of the heart in which the moment of happiness holds forever, but only the constant whirring forward motion of desire and need. ., .Nicholas Coughlan and Isabel Gore are meant fo ..."
History of the Rain Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 by NiallWilliams 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 ..."
Only Say the Word (Paperback) by NiallWilliams, 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 ..."
Only Say the Word(1st Edition) by NiallWilliams Paperback, 345 Pages, Published 2006 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-330-43396-9, ISBN: 0-330-43396-2
"Both a novel and a letter from a husband to his wife, Only Say the Word is a haunting, intimate testament to the enduring nature of love.Jim Foley loves his parents, his brother, his sister, Dickens and God, although not necessarily in that order. Later, he loves Kate, enough to make her his wife; later still, he loves his children, Jack and Hannah. This is Jim's story, from early days spent in County Clare to early adulthood in America ..."
Four Letters of Love by NiallWilliams Paperback, Published 1998 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-9652395-5-4, ISBN: 0-9652395-5-1
In Kiltumper A Year in an Irish Garden by NiallWilliams, Christine Breen 304 Pages, Published 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-63557-719-8, ISBN: 1-63557-719-5
"From the authors of This Is Happiness and Her Name Is Rose, a memoir of life in rural Ireland and a meditation on the power, beauty, and importance of the natural world. 35 years ago, when they were in their twenties, Niall Williams and ..."
This is Happiness by NiallWilliams 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 ..."
This Is Happiness by NiallWilliams 400 Pages, Published 2019 by Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-5266-0934-2, ISBN: 1-5266-0934-7
"Shortlisted for Best Novel in the Irish Book Awards Longlisted for the 2020 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction From the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain 'Lyrical, tender and sumptuously perceptive' Sunday ..."
Four Letters of Love A Novel by NiallWilliams 368 Pages, Published 2015 by Bloomsbury Publishing Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-63286-319-5, ISBN: 1-63286-319-7
"Margaret Gore was watching for it, and took its brown envelope from the pier like
a bitter medicine she knew was needed. She did not walk home, but carried the
letter unopened around the northern shore, making her way out onto the black
crags of rock that jutted into the softest foam of the blue sea. The spray skirted her
bare legs where she stood and read that Isabel had failed two subjects in her
examinations. She read down throu ..."
John by NiallWilliams Cd, Published 2015 by Bolinda Audio Audiobook, Mp3 Audio, Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-1-4890-8329-6, ISBN: 1-4890-8329-4
"In the years following the death of Jesus Christ, John the Apostle, now a frail, blind old man, lives in forced exile on the desolate island of Patmos with a small group of his disciples. Together, the group has endured their banishment, but after years awaiting Christ's return, fissures form within their faith, and, inevitably, one of John's followers disavows Christ's divinity and breaks away from the community, threatening to change ..."
History of the Rain Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 by NiallWilliams 368 Pages, Published 2014 by A&C Black ISBN-13: 978-1-4088-5201-9, ISBN: 1-4088-5201-2
"Remarque (Book 672, Fawcett paperback, New York), in the stern stiff-feeling
pages of The Guns ofAugust (Book 1,023, Barbara Tuchman, ... He's got all that
mind, all that inner country he keeps going around in, mines and craters, caverns
and dead ends. ... What am I supposed to do with this life? is a common
Swainism."