Gordon Williams
From Scenes Like These was shortlisted for the first ever Booker Prize in 1969 and was recently re-published by Picador. His next work, The Siege of Trencher’s Farm, was adapted into the film Straw Dogs, directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Dustin Hoffman. Gordon’s other wonderful novels include Walk Don’t Walk, Big Morning Blues, The Camp and The Upper Pleasure Garden.
With Terry Venables, Gordon wrote the beloved football novel They Used to Play on Grass, and later, while working as commercial manager for Chelsea FC, the Hazell detective series, which was adapted for television in 1978. He passed away in 2017.
“A masterpiece of time and place that looks you square in the eye and demands to be read” – Douglas Stuart on From Scenes Like These
