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Dec 11, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Niall Williams |Susanna Clarke
This is the tale of an ordinary man living out an extraordinary story. When a coal merchant stumbles upon his town’s hidden secrets and lies, he must weigh difficult choices and decide what to do next. Colm Tóibín (Brooklyn, Long Island) loves this book just as much as we do, and writes, “Claire Keegan creates scenes with astonishing clarity and lucidity.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
kansascity.com | Percival L. Everett |Niall Williams |Rita Bullwinkel |Amor Towles
By Percival Everett It was a big year for the writer whose publisher used to be Minnesota-based Graywolf Press. "Erasure," which Graywolf released before Everett's move to Doubleday, was adapted for the movie "American Fiction," winning an Oscar for screenwriter Cord Jefferson. And then came "James," a spin on "Huckleberry Finn" that does just about everything a novel can do.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Niall Williams |Isabelle McConville
B&N Reads, Fiction, Guest Post, New Releases, We Recommend Share Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twitter Bestselling author Anne Patchett has said she’s “such a fan of Niall Williams,” and we couldn’t agree more.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
bostonherald.com | Chris Hewitt |Niall Williams
To use a word that appears often in the novel, “Time of the Child” is a miracle. Niall Williams’ gorgeous, wry and humane book is set in the fictional Irish hamlet of Faha, where much of his work (which also includes “Four Letters of Love” and “This Is Happiness”) takes place. It’s 1962 and nearing Christmas, which is important because the events of the book — which are foreshadowed for 100 pages and then seem to happen all at once — recall the life of the figure for whom Christmas is named.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
kansascity.com | Niall Williams
To use a word that appears often in the novel, "Time of the Child" is a miracle. Niall Williams' gorgeous, wry and humane book is set in the fictional Irish hamlet of Faha, where much of his work (which also includes "Four Letters of Love" and " This Is Happiness") takes place. It's 1962 and nearing Christmas, which is important because the events of the book - which are foreshadowed for 100 pages and then seem to happen all at once - recall the life of the figure for whom Christmas is named.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Niall Williams
“Like waking up on a misty morning and realizing the weather is still rain, glancing around the kitchen at family members, one involved in a book, another deep in her own thoughts, a third slowly devouring a bowl of GF cereal with nuts and raisins, although she is laboriously removing the raisins and stacking them on the small plate…”Nothing much is happening in this passage from Niall Williams’ wondrous Time of the Child, but nothing much happens in everyday life, either.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Billy Collins |Isabelle McConville |Niall Williams
B&N Reads, Interviews, New Releases, Poetry, We Recommend Share Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Twitter Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins joined blog writer Isabelle McConville to talk all about the process of writing poetry, the practice of being alone, finding his poetic voice and more in an exclusive B&N Reads interview.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | Niall Williams
Anyone enchanted by the village of Faha, which appears in Niall Williams’ novels HISTORY OF THE RAIN and THIS IS HAPPINESS, will be pleased by his decision to return to that locale in western Ireland’s County Clare for his latest book, TIME OF THE CHILD. In the hands of a lesser writer, the story of what happens when a foundling enters the lives of the village doctor and his unmarried daughter at Christmas time would risk straying into maudlin territory.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
airmail.news | Jim Kelly |Richard Esposito |Niall Williams |Ted Gerstein
At Wit’s End: Cartoonists of The New Yorker by Alen MacWeeney and Michael Maslin Imagine our delight when this book arrived and we saw our own Barry Blitt on the cover, looking a bit windblown and holding a broken umbrella over his head. Rumor always had it that Blitt also drew covers for The New Yorker, and sure enough he is the cover boy for this delightful volume about the magazine’s cartoonists, with photographs by Alen MacWeeney and short profiles by Michael Maslin, a cartoonist himself.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
readinggroupguides.com | Niall Williams
From the author of THIS IS HAPPINESS comes a compassionate, life-affirming novel about the Christmas season that transforms the small Irish town of Faha. Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean that he has always been set apart from the town.
