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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, […]

In a new video series, Judy Golding Carver talks about her father William Golding and Lord of the Flies. In the fourth and final video, Judy explores […]

In a new video series, Judy Golding Carver talks about her father William Golding and Lord of the Flies. In the third, Judy explores Golding’s life after […]

In a new video series, Judy Golding Carver talks about her father William Golding and Lord of the Flies. In the second, Judy explores Golding’s family.

Updated for 2020! On 19th June 1993, William Golding died at his home in Cornwall, looking out of the window, perhaps watching the rise of the […]

In a new video series, Judy Golding Carver talks about her father William Golding and Lord of the Flies. In the first, Judy explores Golding’s personality.

This is a guest article from Terrell Carver. Terrell is professor of political theory at the University of Bristol, and a non-executive director of William […]

In his unpublished journals, William Golding writes that on Saturday 18th September 1982, he watched Star Wars six times with his grandchildren: ‘Star Wars is entrancing the grown-ups […] […]

The Covid-19 outbreak means that many students are currently unable to attend school or university. We want to offer support for pupils studying any of […]

William Golding met Ann Brookfield in 1939. Ann was an analytical chemist, and Golding was a school teacher. Both were engaged to other people when […]

William Golding’s 1959 novel Free Fall is certainly not a love story, but it does contain some intense romance. Sammy Mountjoy relentlessly pursues Beatrice: ‘I want you, […]

This is a guest post by Golding’s grandson Roger Carver. All of Golding’s grandchildren called him Bill. ‘Billy the Kid’ is included in The Hot […]

William Golding’s novels are scary. There are moments of sheer terror across many of his books but this terror does not come from the supernatural […]

We are offering support for students and teachers. Please click here. William Golding would have been 108 years old today, and this week also marks […]

We are offering support for students and teachers. Please click here. Lord of the Flies was adapted into film twice in William Golding’s lifetime – first […]

Faber & Faber: The Untold Story is a fascinating history of the publishing house, told by Toby Faber through a series of extracts from letters, […]

Literary Pursuits – Lord of the Flies, broadcast on Radio 3 last Sunday and presented by Sarah Dillon, was a fascinating look at how Golding’s first […]

Darkness Visible is the most mysterious of all Golding’s novels, and he famously refused to discuss it during his lifetime. It is an astonishing achievement, […]

This is a guest post by Arabella Currie. Arabella is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Exeter, researching Golding’s engagement with Classics. […]

Gina Perry’s The Lost Boys is a fascinating book about psychologist Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave Experiment. The social experiment took place in 1954, the same […]