{"product_id":"from-scenes-like-these-9781035073566","title":"From Scenes Like These","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the first ever Booker Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'A masterpiece' - Douglas Stuart, author of \u003ci\u003eShuggie Bain\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eAn extraordinary novel' - Michael Magee, author of \u003ci\u003eClose to Home \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'It deserves its modern classic status' -\u003ci\u003e The Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's the west of Scotland in the 1950s. New houses are going up. Factories are opening.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut Dunky Logan, a 15-year-old brought up in a tenement flat in working-class Kilcaddie, is ditching school to be a labourer on a local farm. Dead set on becoming a hard case, he wants to work shoulder to shoulder with so-called real men. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIrish Catholic Mary O'Donnell arrives at the farmhouse as the new maid. She is pregnant - no boyfriend in sight. But she's smart, and she has a plan to get herself up in the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Dunky is swallowed up by a vicious cycle of violence, betrayal, and booze, Mary becomes entangled in a savage family feud. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow there's no going back, not for either of them.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an introduction by James Robertson \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGordon M. Williams was born in Paisley in 1934. He was the author of several novels, including \u003ci\u003eFrom Scenes Like These, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was shortlisted for the first Booker Prize in 1969, \u003ci\u003eWalk Don't Walk\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBig Morning Blues\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Camp\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Had Power Over Women, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Siege of Trencher's Farm\u003c\/i\u003e, which was made into the film \u003ci\u003eStraw Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e. He was also the ghostwriter for the autobiographies of footballers Bobby Moore, Terry Venables and Tommy Docherty. He died in 2017.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51998178640146,"sku":"9781035073566","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_05ebb75d-70b7-4525-a401-40e5e084e2f5.jpg?v=1770142448","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/from-scenes-like-these-9781035073566","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}