Niall Williams’ Time of the Child might just be the big ‘feel-good book of the year’

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At 2025 Adelaide Writers’ Week, Irish author Niall Williams joins Kate Evans to talk Faha, fiction, and Time of the Child—his latest novel. Also a playwright and screenwriter, Williams celebrates the film release of Four Letters of Love, and teams up with Kate, Cassie, Charlotte Mendelsohn, and Brian Castro for a lively Bookshelf special on books, reading, and influence.

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