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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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In his unpublished journals, William Golding writes that on Saturday 18th September 1982, he watched Star Wars six times with his grandchildren: ‘Star Wars is entrancing the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

William Golding kept a journal from 1971 until his death in 1993. The journals are unpublished. 11 April 1993 Easter Sunday – Christos Aneste! [Greek […]

We are offering support for students and teachers. Please click here. William Golding was born on 19th September, 1911, at his grandparents’ house in Newquay, […]

Judy (Golding) Carver has written a chapter ‘William Golding’s Mother’, in a new collection entitled Writers and their Mothers, edited by by Dale Salwak. An edited version […]

2017 marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of Golding’s sixth novel, The Pyramid. The Pyramid was Golding’s first attempt at realist fiction, and was something of a […]

Salisbury is an important place in the history and writing of William Golding and we were delighted to participate in the inaugural Salisbury Literary Festival, […]

This is a guest post written by Rachel Lindan. Marlborough is an obvious must-visit for the William Golding enthusiast wishing to make a literary pilgrimage, […]

An opinion piece in the Guardian discussed famous novelists and their day jobs, including a mention of William Golding as a school teacher. Golding taught at Bishop […]

The University of Exeter has recently acquired correspondence between William Golding and Anthony Curtis, former Literary Editor of the Telegraph to add to its already impressive Golding […]

Roger Carver is William Golding’s youngest grandchild and shares here some wonderful memories of his grandfather. All Golding’s grandchildren called him Bill. My memories of […]

This is one of the first professional photographs of William Golding, and it appeared in Vogue magazine in 1954. Thanks to the Faber Archive for permission […]

‘The Dreams of William Golding’ was an illuminating, and often rather moving portrait of William Golding, directed by Adam Low. Low was granted access to […]

Judy Golding’s The Children of Lovers was published in 2011, Golding’s centenary year. It is a frank and engaging memoir of the Nobel prize-winning author, […]

Review of John Carey, William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies (Faber and Faber, paperback, 2010). When reading John Carey’s absorbing biography of William […]