W e l c o m e
Thank you for visiting our site. Here you'll find a complete listing of Niall's works, including novels, non-fiction (with wife Christine Breen) and plays, and information about our Writing Workshops. We hope you enjoy your visit...
News
Niall is presently working on an original screenplay under the working title, GRACE, and also on a new novel.
Four Letters of Love has been optioned by Uncas Productions and is currently in development.
He continues to work as fiction mentor for the MFA program in Creative Writing for Carlow University in Pittsburgh, PA.
The successful Kiltumper Writing Workshops continued in 2009 with two more sessions. The schedule for 2010 of creative writing workshops in Ireland will be in July and August. Early booking is advised as places are limited to provide individual attention.
Keep up to date with all that’s happening in Kiltumper on View from Kiltumper Blog
John
In April 09, Bloomsbury UK, published John in paperback—a stunning, lyrical re-imagining of John the Apostle in the final years of his life.
John is an ambitious and provocative novel about the last surviving apostle and a powerful look at faith and how it lives and dies in the hearts of men.
Read Niall's notes on John on the View from Kiltumper Blog page.
"The writing is unfailingly resourceful and strong, able to range from the physical realities of poverty and deprivation to the exaltation of religious faith and the poignancies of memory. And the novel as a whole constitutes an eloquent and moving statement of the power of love and the belief that it will triumph in the end."
- Barry Unsworth in The Guardian
Review from Kirkus Review…
“Irish novelist Williams takes spiritual issues seriously—and continues to write compellingly about them.”
"Themes of love, faith, redemption and survival inform his smoothly lyrical, powerfully dramatic prose in John. Williams is a writer who understands the haunting power of the simple sentence, the importance of compelling interior monologues. He has the knack of conveying a sense of immediacy. His flair for narrative overcomes the challenge of a story that starts out, by necessity, chained to a Greek rock, like Prometheus... This is a cracking good Bible-based novel for those of us who are theologically challenged. If Hollywood producer Cecil B. DeMille (The Ten Commandments) were alive today, he'd be angling for the film rights."
- Pat Donnelly, The Montreal Gazette
"Gripping and believable... In an age where reason and science have shown themselves inadequate to fulfil the human dream of perfection, it is important that serious writers such as Williams face the perennial questions of faith and love."
- The Irish Times
"Poweful and moving... an absorbing and intelligent novel."
- Times Literary Supplement