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'Compelling' - Forgotten Scottish Booker Prize contender republished after 60 years

'Compelling' - Forgotten Scottish Booker Prize contender republished after 60 years

From Scenes Like These, by Scottish author Gordon Williams, was shortlisted for the first Booker Prize in 1969. Now it's being republished - so how does it stand up nearly 60 years later?

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