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To mark the launch of new editions of Golding’s novels, the Cheltenham Literature Festival is hosting an event: William Golding: Beyond Lord of the Flies. […]

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, […]

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 […]