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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 […]

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Eva Waite-Taylor in the Independent has created a list of ‘essential’ novels that […]

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.

This year the Causley Festival of Arts and Literature will take place digitally, with an exciting range of events available. The programme includes Professor Tim […]

The Marlborough LitFest is running a writing competition in association with English Literature at Bath Spa University! Golding’s daughter Judy is one of the judges […]

The most recent episode of the Backlisted podcast features William Golding’s The Inheritors! Backlisted was set up by John Mitchinson and Andy Miller and seeks […]

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 […]

Author and fitness coach Joe Wicks has chosen Lord of the Flies as his castaway book on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. Wicks said that Lord of […]

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.

William Golding in the news… The Guardian published an extract from Rutger Bregman’s new book Humankind: ‘The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when […]

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 […]

William Golding’s daughter, Judy Golding Carver, has written to the Guardian in response to an extract from a book by Rutger Bregman. This is from Judy’s letter: […]

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 […]