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History of the Rain by Niall Williams
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
History of the Rain: A Novel by Niall Williams
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden by Niall Williams,Christine Breen
Category: Gardening Landscape Plants
Thirty-four years ago, when they were in their twenties, Niall Williams and Christine Breen made the impulsive decision to leave their lives in 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 w ...Show more
In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden by Niall Williams
Category: Home and Garden
'I read it with enormous pleasure ... Heartbreaking, uplifting ... A delight' TIM PEARS 'I loved their two voices, truthful and gentle and generous' GEORGINA HARDING 'Magical ... Arresting ... Read it and be restored to yourself' IRISH CENTRAL Thirty-four years ago, when they were in their twenties, ...Show more
John by Niall Williams
Category: Fiction
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 sigh ...Show more
John by Niall Williams
Category: Fiction
John stands in the storm. He has no fear of any kind. He has outlived all manner of pain and been near enough to death to kiss its face and walk away. He has lived for a purpose and believes he knows what it is. Aged as dust, blind and perilously frail, John has walked ten thousand miles, more, to tell ...Show more
Only Say the Word by Niall Williams
Category: Fiction
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. Only Say the Word tells Jim's story, and the story of the people and places in his life ...Show more
Only Say the Word by Niall Williams
Category: Fiction
A novel that is simultaneously a universal story about love in all its forms and guises, and an intimate love letter from a husband to his wife. 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 - ...Show more
Only Say the Word by Niall Williams
Category: Fiction
A novel that is simultaneously a universal story about love in all its forms and guises, and an intimate love letter from a husband to his wife.Jim Foley loves his parents, his brother, his sister, Dickens and God; later, he loves Kate âÃÂàenough to make her his wife and to shape his life aroun ...Show more
The Fall of Light by Niall Williams
Category: Fiction
The men of the Foley family have always been proud and fearless, fashioned by the harsh, cold elements of their country. Their story begins in Ireland, in the mid-nineteenth century. The family have lost their home and suffered another loss which proves more vital - beautiful Emer Foley, wife of Francis ...Show more
The Fall of Light by Niall Williams
Category: Fiction
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 odyss ...Show more
This Is Happiness by Niall Williams
Category: Fiction
The most enchanting novel you'll read this year, from the acclaimed author of Man Booker-longlisted History of the Rain Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a c ...Show more