G.M. Williams

1934–2017

Scottish novelist, journalist and screenwriter, born in Paisley, Renfrewshire. He left school at 16 to become a local reporter, did national service with the Royal Air Force in Germany and then worked as a journalist in London. His first novel, The Last Day of Lincoln Charles, appeared in 1965. The Siege of Trencher’s Farm (1969) was filmed by Sam Peckinpah as Straw Dogs, and with Terry Venables, as P. B. Yuill, he wrote the Hazell novels and television series. He also ghost-wrote footballers’ autobiographies. He died in August 2017. From Scenes Like These was shortlisted for the 1969 Booker Prize.

Timeline of G.M. Williams’s life

Works

• From Scenes Like These (1968)

Prizes

• From Scenes Like These — The Booker Prize 1969: Shortlist