Books written by Niall Williams

When Summer's in the Meadow

Travel / Memoir 0-939149-37-0 $ 12.00 “ A thoughtful , tender self - portrait of a couple passionately in love with a ... Press Inc. 853 Broadway New York , NY 10003 9 " 780939 " 149377 Jacket art : Christine Breen Design : Royce Becker.
O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clare

8.95 U.S. A young American - Irish couple gives up New York to take up farming in the west of Ireland , and finds what ... Pittsburgh Post Gazette Jacket Painting & Text Illustrations : Christine Breen Jacket Design : Royce Becker Photo ...
The Luck of the Irish: Our Life in County Clare

Larry had asked Michael to lend us a hand . It was ironic for both Jim and me that here was Michael , our friend and neighbor , who had often come to each of us at different times when we were starting out , having trouble with this cow ...
New Plays from the Abbey Theatre

The final play in the collection, Tom Mac Intyre's Sheep's Milk on the Boil is set on a remote island off the Irish coast.
In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

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 ...
Four Letters of Love: A Novel

Nicholas Coughlan is twelve years old when his father, an Irish civil servant, announces that God has commanded him to become a painter.
O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clare

This New York City couple who met as graduate students in Dublin, gave up the urban lifestyle to return to the land of their ancestors. Pursuit of their dream took...
This Is Happiness

Harking back to a simpler time, This Is Happiness is a tender portrait of a community - its idiosyncrasies and traditions, its paradoxes and kindnesses, its failures and triumphs - and a coming-of-age tale like no other.
History of the Rain: A Novel

To find him, enfolded in the mystery of ancestors, Ruthie must first trace the jutting jaw lines, narrow faces, and gleamy skin of the Swains from the restless Reverend Swain, her great-grandfather, to her grandfather Abraham, and finally ...
Boy and Man

After the critically acclaimed Boy in the World, comes the follow-up novel from bestselling author, Niall Williams
Four Letters of Love

Nicholas Coughlan and Isabel Gore were made for each other but how will they ever know it? This is a story about destiny, acceptance and the tragedies and miracles of everyday life.
Four Letters of Love: A Novel

William Coughlan leaves his family to paint pictures at God's command, disappearing into western Ireland, where he meets a young woman grieving over her afflicted brother
This Is Happiness

Luminous and otherworldly, and yet anchored with deep-running roots into the earthy and the everyday, This Is Happiness is about stories as the very stuff of life: the ways they make the texture and matter of our world, and the ways they ...
History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014

A celebration of books, love and the healing power of the imagination, this is an exquisite, funny, moving novel in which every sentence sings.
Storia della pioggia

È difficile credere nella bontà altrui. A volte, dopo che se n'è andato, mi domando come sarebbe scivolare dentro un'altra storia e diventare davvero la signora di Vincent Cunningham. Tipo: Capitolo 38: «L'ho sposato, lettore mio.
In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

Proceeding month by month through the year, this is the story of a garden in all its many splendours, and a couple who have made their life observing its wonders.
In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

Proceeding month by month through the year, this is the story of a garden in all its many splendours, and a couple who have made their life observing its wonders.
Only Say the Word

Tracing his journey from child, to husband to father, from happy-ever-after to death-do-us-part, from beginnings to endings, this work tells of the people and places in Jim's life, his hopes, fears and fantasies, and more.
John: A Novel

Immensely impressive-and based on actual historical events-John is at once an ambitious and provocative reimagining of the last surviving apostle and a powerful look at faith and how it lives and dies in the hearts of men.
Boy in the World

A beautiful and moving novel about a young boy's journey from childhood to adulthood from bestselling author, Niall Williams. Niall Williams draws us into life in a small village in...