Paul Williams
Paul Williams is a psychoanalyst and writer. He worked for most of his adult life in clinical practice in London and Northern Ireland, before moving to California in 2016.
Following many psychoanalytic books and articles he turned to writing about the internal world, dream, fantasy and how these shape our view of reality, especially when our minds do not work. A trilogy (The Fifth Principle, Scum and The Authority of Tenderness) received widespread acclaim as a new, original genre of writing. His latest book, Nothing Happened, follows the extraordinary experiences of a soul-murdered man who, through catastrophe, good fortune and attempts to connect remaining slivers of his humanity to people he never knew existed or could possibly fathom, eventually confronts him with an unimaginable redemption.
Books by Paul Williams
Nothing Happened
“A reminder of the effort it may be costing the one with whom we share our workplace or our bed to keep raving madness at bay to appear to be a nice person, normal, one of us.” —JM Coetzee, Nobel Laureate
A powerful novel of a murdered soul and its path to resurrection.
Nothing Happened. That’s why Tim, a successful ad man, is missing internal organs and hauling around a frozen cadaver through the streets and corporate penthouse suites of London.
Nothing Happened. That’s why there’s a tramp yelling at Tim, warning him to kill others to save them from being killed.
Nothing Happened. But when Tim sees tiny fingers creeping out from under a box in a homeless camp, the cadaver starts to free itself from its block of ice…
Nothing Happened is a powerful novel about the murdered soul and its path to resurrection from renowned psychoanalyst Paul Williams (author of The Fifth Principle, Scum, and The Authority of Tenderness).
Release date: 24 March, 2026.