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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 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Four Letters of Love. Das Alphabet der Liebe, engl. Ausgabe by Niall Williams, John Hurt Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2015 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-1-4472-7510-7, ISBN: 1-4472-7510-1 "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 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(1st Edition) by Niall Williams 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | The Fall of Light(Reprint) by Niall Williams Paperback, 350 Pages, Published 2002 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-330-48700-9, ISBN: 0-330-48700-0 "Francis Foley is a proud, stubborn man, and cannot stand to be beholden to anyone. Quick to anger and slow to forgiveness, it is his temper that, one day, costs his sons their home - and their mother. This will not be the last of their losses however: as the four boys and their father embark on an odyssey to find untenanted land they can call their own, their already diminished family is divided still further. But if a combination of ch ..." |
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