The voice drew nearer.
'You could have saved us.'
Fire Down Below
Fire Down Below is the final volume of ‘A Sea Trilogy’.
A decrepit warship sails on the last stretch of its voyage to Sydney Cove. It has been blown off course and battered by wind, storm and ice. Nothing but rope holds the disintegrating hull together. And after a risky operation to reset its foremast with red-hot metal, an unseen fire begins to smoulder below decks.
Judy takes 'A Sea Trilogy' to its poetic conclusion
Timeline
Jane Austen
The novels of Jane Austen were a source of inspiration for The Sea Trilogy. During the writing of Rites of Passage he re-read all six of her novels, and read Emma three times.
Resources
BBC Adaptation: To the Ends of the Earth
In 2005 the BBC produced a mini-series adaptation of Golding’s A Sea Trilogy, called To the Ends of the Earth. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Edmund Talbot, […]
News & Articles
The Booker Prize 1980
On 21st October 1980, forty years ago today, William Golding was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage. Golding was 69 and until 2019, […]
'Golding, like his novel, is ambivalent, unresolved, walking a tightrope between reason and spirituality and between tragedy and comedy'.
Victoria Glendinning
'Words may, through the devotion, the skill, the passion and the luck of writers, prove to be the most powerful thing in the world'.
William Golding, Nobel Lecture, 1983