The Siege of Trencher's Farm The Siege of Trencher's Farm The Siege of Trencher's Farm (1969) is a psychological horror/thriller novel by Scottish author Gordon Williams. It was first published by Secker & Warburg, and is better known for the 1971 film adaptation "Straw Dogs" (starring Dustin Hoffman) by Sam Peckinpah. A remake of that film (Straw Dogs (2011 film)) under the same name was made to less favourable reviews, both films bearing little resemblance to the novel. "The Siege of Trencher's Farm" was republished by Titan Books as in 2011 as "Straw Dogs", to coincide with the release of the remake. George Magruder, an
The Siege of Malta (novel) of its copies, and then published his own "Siege of Malta", which he claimed was "founded on an unfinished romance by Sir Walter Scott". In 1977, it at last became possible for the reading public to form an accurate idea of the novel's plot and style when Donald E. Sultana published his "The Siege of Malta Rediscovered", a biographical account of the writing of the novel together with an extended abstract of its plot and a large number of lengthy quotations from it. A reliable typewritten transcript of the novel was also made by Jane Millgate and deposited in the