Books
Five of Williams' novels comprise ''The Mangel Series'', about nightclub doorman Royston Blake and set in the fictional town of Mangel, which is based loosely on Worcester itself. ''Deadfolk'' was published in 2004, ''Fags and Lager'' in 2005, ''King of the Road'' in 2006, ''One Dead Hen'' in 2011 and ''Made of Stone'' in 2013. Comic, rural noir in the style of writers such as Jim Thompson, they use a colloquial first-person narrative throughout, in dialect, with Royston Blake as narrator. Thematically the novels explore dysfunctional masculinity and the decline and alienation of provincial Britain, and are littered with references to popular cultural icons of the seventies and eighties (Blake's, and Williams', formative period). Previous to the success of the Mangel Trilogy Williams had attempted for some years to break into the horror genre, and the sensibilities of that field are detectable in his published work (see, for example, the chainsaw scene in ''Deadfolk''). Other notable works are the novel ''Stairway to Hell'' (2009), the novella ''Graven Image'' (2011) and the screenplay for the short film ''Ark''.Personal life
Williams lives outside Worcester with his family.References
21st-century English novelists 1971 births Living people Alumni of Swansea University People educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester English male novelists 21st-century English male writers {{England-writer-stub