Survivors: The Spectre of Threads
2025 · 10.0/10
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Barry Hines
Writing · born 30 June 1939 · Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK
An English author, playwright, screenwriter and amateur footballer. His novels and screenplays explore the political and economic struggles of working-class Northern England, particularly in his native West Riding/South Yorkshire.
He is best known for the novel A Kestrel for a Knave (1968), which he helped adapt for Ken Loach's film Kes (1969). He collaborated with Loach on adaptations of his novels Looks and Smiles and The Gamekeeper, and the 1977 two-part television drama The Price of Coal.
Where to start: Survivors: The Spectre of Threads (2025).
