in 1952 in Lilliput magazine, became the basis of the 1955 film White Feather. He wrote an article entitled "Slaughter in the Sun" for Lilliput in 1958, on which the film Zulu (1964) would be based, co-written by Prebble and the director, Cy Endfield. He contributed to television on the limited serials The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970), Elizabeth R (1971) and The Borgias (1981). He also wrote radio dramas and documentaries for the BBC. They were usually, but not always, based on his published works. For example, in 1977, he wrote an adaptation of John Buchan's The Three Hostages. Personal He was married to the artist Betty (Golby) Prebble. He had a daughter, Sarah Prebble, and two sons, Jolyon and actor and narrator Simon Prebble. His first wife died in 1993 and he married his long-term mistress Jan Reid in 1994. Publications include Fiction Where the Sea Breaks, Secker & Warburg, 1944 Edge of Darkness, Secker and Warburg, 1947 Age without Pity, Secker & Warburg, 1950 The Brute Streets, Secker & Warburg, 1954 The Mather Story, Secker & Warburg, 1954 My Great-Aunt, Appearing Day, And Other Stories, Secker and Warburg, 1958 The Buffalo Soldiers, New York Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1959 Spanish Stirrup, and other stories, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973 History Disaster at Dundee, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1956 (also published as High Girders: The Tay Bridge Disaster, 1879, Secker and Warburg, 1975) Culloden, Secker & Warburg, 1961 The Highland Clearances, Secker & Warburg, 1963 Glencoe: The Story of the Massacre, Secker & Warburg, 1966 The Lion in the North: A Personal View of Scotland's History, Penguin Books, 1973, Darien: The Scottish Dream of Empire (also published as Darien: A Scots Colony in the New World, 1698–1700), 1968, about the Darien scheme Mutiny: Highland Regiments in Revolt, 1743–1804, 1975, The Borgias (with Sarah Bradford), 1981 The King's Jaunt: George IV in Scotland, August, 1822, Birlinn Limited, Edinburgh, 2000, (originally published in 1988) Other books Elephants and Ivory: True Tales of Hunting and Adventure, John Alfred Jordan (as told to John Prebble); also published as Mongaso Man Who Is Always Moving: The Story of an African Hunter John Alfred Jordan (1956) John Prebble's Scotland, Secker & Warburg, 1984, Landscapes and Memories, An Intermittent Autobiography, Harper Collins, London, 1993 Films Culloden, BBC documentary, 1964 written by Prebble and directed by Peter Watkins. Zulu, screenplay Honours and awards FRSL (1963)