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Niall Williams

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Born in Dublin in 1958, studied English and French Literature at University College, Dublin. He moved to New York in 1980 where he married Christine Breen, whom he had met while she was also a student at UCD. His first job in New York was opening boxes of books in Fox & Sutherland’s Bookshop in Mount Kisco. In 1985, he and Chris left America to attempt to make lives as writers in Ireland. On April 1st they moved to the cottage in west Clare that Chris’s grandfather had left eighty years before. They have two adult children, a dog named Finn and a cat called Thanks. Niall’s first four books, published between 1987 and 1995, were co-written with Chris and tell of their life together in Co Clare.

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Boy


A General Fiction series (2007 - 2008)

This series is for you if you're into...

  • Irish family stories marked by absence and longing
  • Coming-of-age quests under grief and uncertainty
  • Faith and identity tested in unfamiliar cities

Standalone Fiction

Four Letters of Love

As It Is in Heaven

The Fall of Light

Only Say the Word

Picador Shots - The Unrequited

John

John


History of the Rain

This Is Happiness

Time of the Child

O Now!

O Now!

Novella

Standalone Non-fiction

O Come Ye Back to Ireland

In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

Little Stacks of General Fiction

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