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Faber & Faber have recently released a new edition of Golding’s posthumously published novel, The Double Tongue, featuring an introduction by Bettany Hughes. In these […]

William Golding was featured on episode 9 of the BBC series Rick’s Stein Cornwall, broadcast on 13th January. In the series, Stein journeys across Cornwall, […]

The Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri has written a stunning introduction to a new edition of Golding’s 1955 novel The Inheritors. This introduction, also published […]

The actor David Dawson is the narrator of a new audiobook version of Golding’s 1955 novel The Inheritors. Dawson has had a successful career in theatre, […]

On the 28th anniversary of the death of William Golding – 19th June 1993 – we are publishing a clip of Golding reading from Lord of […]

This is a guest post by Kate Debling, University of Exeter. On 8th April 2021, PhD candidate Bradley Osborne and Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Arabella […]

Each year on International Women’s Day, one of William Golding’s most famous quotations is shared on social media: ‘I think women are foolish to pretend […]

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 […]