# The Bookshelf Easter Special: Irish writer Niall Williams

An episode of [The Bookshelf](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/499762704), 18 Apr 2025, 54 min.

Audio: https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/8j/Z/0h.mp3

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 latest) Time of the Child. Williams is also a screenwriter, playwright and travel writer — and his first novel, Four Letters of Love, has just been released as a film. He also appeared onstage at AWW with Kate and Cassie, for a special edition of the Bookshelf on books, reading, and influences, with English writer Charlotte Mendelsohn and Australian writer Brian Castro.

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