Niall Williams

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 Times ‘A love letter to the sleepy, unhurried and delightfully odd Ireland that is all but gone’ Irish Independent Set in the quaint village...

The instant Irish Times Top Ten bestseller A heartbreaking and life-affirming novel about small towns and second chances - from the international bestselling author of Four Letters of Love ‘A rich and gorgeous book’ The Times, The 10 best historical fiction books of 2024 ‘Irresistible … A powerful pleasure’ Karen Joy Fowler ‘Deeply compassionate’ Guardian ‘Slow, rich, immaculate ... One...

Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award The instant Irish Times Top Ten bestseller A heartbreaking and life-affirming novel about small towns and second chances - from the international bestselling author of Four Letters of Love. ‘A rich and gorgeous book’ - The Times, The 10 best historical fiction books of 2024 ‘Irresistible … A powerful...

Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award Longlisted for the HWA Gold Crown Award The instant Irish Times Top Ten bestseller A heartbreaking and life-affirming novel about small towns and second chances - from the international bestselling author of Four Letters of Love ‘I am utterly obsessed with Niall Williams’ - Ann Patchett ‘A rich and...

Now a major motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan and Helena Bonham Carter. 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... Four Letters Of Love tells the story of Nicholas...

'Poignant ... A meditation on life, love and the importance of nature' IRISH TIMESWhen they were in their twenties, Niall Williams and Christine Breen made the impulsive decision to leave New York City and move to Christine’s ancestral home in the town of Kiltumper in rural Ireland. In the decades that followed, the pair dedicated themselves to writing, gardening and...

A wise, tender, life-affirming return to the beloved town of Faha by the award-winning master of Irish literature This is the why of us. October in the parish of Faha, County Clare – the beginning of the season of spirits. Four nights a week, Bat Considine calls on his neighbour Mossie Crowe; a beloved widower known to all in the...

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,...