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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(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 ..."






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






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 ..."






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 ..."






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






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 ..."






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 ..."






Four Letters of Love(Updated)
(Spanish Edition)
by Niall Williams
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2006 by Pan Books Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-330-35269-7, ISBN: 0-330-35269-5

"'When I was twelve years old God spoke to my father for the first time. God didn't say much. He told my father to be a painter and left it at that ...' So begins Niall Williams' magical tale about love and destiny. Nicholas Coughlan and Isabel Gore were made for each other - but fate doesn't always take the easiest or the most obvious route to true love. For a start, Nicholas and Isabel have never met and nor are they likely to, without ..."






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






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 ..."






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(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 ..."






As It Is in Heaven
by Niall Williams
Paperback, Published 1999 by Picador Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-330-39238-9, ISBN: 0-330-39238-7






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."






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 ..."






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






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 ..."



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