BOOKS
JOHN WARD: A Delightful Nonsense
A Sketchbook of an Artist's Life and a Who's Who of the 20th Century
"John Ward: A Delightful Nonsense" takes readers through the life of one of Britain's most distinguished portrait painters of the 20th Century. Ward's friendships with notable figures, his wartime experiences, and his artistic principles are brough to life through the words of those who knew him best. Peter Williams' biography is not just an exploration of art in a rapidly-changing world.
"A moving and revelatory memoir . . . Peter Williams captures the spirit of John Ward's rare talent. Not to be missed."
Sir Clive Jones CBE
"I really enjoyed reading this engaging book, about a delightful painter. John Ward, though probably dyslexic, was witty and acute in conversation and a superb draughtsman . . . an artist's manual on how to to paint people."
Rupert Mass, The Maas
Publisher: PWTV in 2024
ISBN 978-1-7394417-6-0
Hardback
Please email:
peter@pwtv.co.uk
A VIEW FROM THE CHAIR:
A Festival and a Theatre that Helped to Shape a City
Peter Williams has been involved in charitable and cultural initiatives in Kent for some 50 years, from the revival of the Canterbury International Arts Festival, which he chaired for 21 years, to the creation of the new Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury. This book charts those 50 years.
Publisher: PWTV
ISBN 978-1-9161936-7-3
Hardback
Please email:peter@pwtv.co.uk
BEING THERE: Titanic, Marlon Brando and the
Luger Pistol
A life in which Peter Williams, wittily and dramatically, portrays: the inside story of milestone events over the last 50 years, and the lessons to be drawn from them.
"This is a terrific book."
Professor Michael Irwin
"Peter has told truth to power, held our masters to account and celebrated extraordinary people...a remarkable book by a remarkable journalist."
Sir Clive Jones, CBE
"Peter was always worth reading. And after 50 years (in television), he still is."
Sir Jeremy Isaacs
IN BLACK AND WHITE - The History of the Kent Coalfield The History of the Kent Coalfield
The County of Kent, with its hop gardens, oasthouses and orchards, is known around the world as the Garden of England. In the 1920s, plans were drawn up to transform it into a new, industrial Black Country of coalmines and ironworks.
Men starved of work during The Depression flocked to Kent, seeking jobs in the 18 new collieries promised by Neville Chamberlain, who would soon become Britain’s Prime Minister. Tens of thousands of men settled in Kent, with their families, and they stayed even when Britain’s collieries closed in the 1980s.
But, like any immigrants, they were strangers in an established community, folk who lived off the land rather than beneath it.
Peter Williams tells the unique story of a century of Kent coal. It is a story of love and hate, great triumphs and crushing disappointments, team spirit and laughter, and conflict at the highest level of Government.
Publisher: PWTV 2019 - First Edition 2019: ISBN 978-1-9161936-1-1
Second Edition 2020: ISBN 978-1-9161936-2-8
"A well-written, intriguing slice of social history by Peter Williams ... a worthy obituary of a now-vanished Industry."
Daily Mail, January 2020
UNIT 731: Japanese Biological Warfare Experiments in World War II (with David Wallace)
ISBN 0-586-20822-4
McINDOE'S ARMY: The Guinea Pig Club
(with Ted Harrison)
ISBN 0720711916
