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Author Elif Shafak has been announced as the Golding Speaker at the 2021 Marlborough Literature Festival. The Golding speaker opens the festival each year, and […]

Round-up of William Golding in the news in July 2021! In The Guardian, novelist Monique Roffey cited Golding’s The Inheritors as the ‘book that had […]

Faber & Faber are to relaunch all Golding’s novels with brand new covers and introductions from a range of exciting writers! Pincher Martin, The Spire, […]

Costa Award-winner Monique Roffey has spoken about her relationship with Golding’s second novel The Inheritors. In an interview with the Guardian, Roffey was asked to […]

Best-selling children’s writer, Julia Donaldson, has named Lord of the Flies as the book that changed her life. In an interview in the Guardian, Donaldson […]

The latest instalment in the Guardian’s Top 10 Novels series features fiction told in a single day, chosen by author James Clammer. He suggests that […]

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 […]

Registration is now open for the William Golding: Beyond Good and Evil Symposium! The symposium takes place on Thursday 8th April 2021, entirely on Zoom, […]

William Golding was one of the featured authors on a recent podcast from the Iris Murdoch Society. The podcast on Murdoch and her contemporaries featured […]

Round-up of William Golding in the news in February 2021! Lord of the Flies was mentioned in Netflix’s new show Fate: The Winx Saga. In the first […]

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 […]

The call for papers for the William Golding: Beyond Good and Evil symposium is open now! The online symposium will take place on April 8, […]

Round-up of William Golding in the news in November 2020! As the 2020 US Presidential election unfolded, Lord of the Flies was a frequent referent in news […]

From 18th to 22nd November 2020, Speaking Volumes are offering an exciting range of material based around the 2012 Arena documentary The Dreams of William […]

Round-up of William Golding in the news in October 2020! As many people continue to work from home, Zoom meetings and video calls are still […]

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, […]

Professor Tim Kendall recently gave a talk on William Golding and Cornwall at the Causley Digital Festival. Golding was born in Cornwall and had a […]

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 […]

Award-winning writer, Nina Allan, author of books including The Race and The Rift has written a fascinating post on science fiction. The post is inspired by […]