2024 saw a huge anniversary for us – the 70th anniversary of the publication of Lord of the Flies and the publication of the very first graphic […]
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The Spire and the Burgess Ninety Nine Novels podcast
Golding’s The Spire features in an episode of the wonderful Ninety Nine Novels podcast from the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. In 1984, Burgess published a list of […]
Read more…Alan Garner on Lord of the Flies
In the latest issue of British Vogue, the Booker Prize finalists discuss their literary influences. Alan Garner, shortlisted for Treacle Walker, chose Lord of the Flies as one […]
Read more…The Booker Prize 1980
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, […]
Read more…Penelope Lively’s most admired novelist: William Golding
In a recent interview with the Guardian, Booker-Prize-winning author Penelope Lively cites William Golding as her ‘most admired novelist’. Lively has just written a new collection […]
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