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I am here to write the books I’m supposed to write

By Róisín Ingle, The Irish Times • A critical savaging for his first play scarred the author of Time of the Child. You can’t try to please people, he says....

Niall Williams: ‘When I first read Chekhov, I thought: “He’s not so great”’

By Niall Williams for The Guardian • The Irish author on Enid Blyton at bedtimes, discovering Dickens, and the brilliance of Edna O’Brien.

A Garden Grows in Ireland

By Dominique Browning, Wall Street Journal • The idea that we should retreat from the world to cultivate our own gardens now seems thoroughly inadvisable.

The Good Life

By Hilary White, The Irish Independent • Thirty-five years ago Christine Breen and Niall Williams left Manhattan to cultivate a creative haven in Co Clare – which inspired a successful...

What Frank Sinatra Taught Me About America

By Niall Williams for The Atlantic • When I was 23, I came to America for the first time with my soon-to-be wife, and settled in her hometown of Katonah, New...

How I Write

By Niall Williams • It is morning. Lately it seems always it is raining. I go into the conservatory we added to the front of the two-hundred year old stone...

About the novel JOHN

By Niall Williams • It begins like this. I am sitting in the front room looking down the garden. It is a day in early summer. My mind is idling.

Is Anyone Happy Anymore?

By Niall Williams for The New York Times • Recently I have been forced to think a bit about happiness. It’s not something I’ve done before.

Parnassus Presents: Niall Williams with Ann Patchett

Parnassus Books is delighted to bring you our event with Niall Williams in celebration of his latest novel, Time of the Child. He is in conversation with our very own...

The Bookshelf Easter Special: Irish writer Niall Williams

Irish writer Niall Williams with Kate Evans at the 2025 Adelaide Writers Week — with a focus on his Faha novels, History of the Rain, This is Happiness and (his...

Read This: The Imaginary Village of Niall Williams

Featured in The Monthly, April 2025 Over four decades Niall Williams has made a name for himself as one of Ireland’s leading novelists. In his latest novel, Time of the...

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