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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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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: […]

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 […]

This is a guest post by Courtney Presley. As a recent addition to the long list of references of Lord of the Flies in popular […]

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies has been named on the BBC’s list of the 100 novels that shaped our world. The panel of judges – Mariella […]

Round-up of William Golding in the news in October 2019! Monos, directed by Alejandro Landes, was awarded ‘Best Film’ at the BFI London Film Festival […]

William Golding’s novels are scary. There are moments of sheer terror across many of his books but this terror does not come from the supernatural […]

Faber & Faber are hosting an exciting event on Lord of the Flies and psychoanalysis on October 29th, as part of their Literature and Psychoanalysis series. Arabel […]

As part of the Exeter Literary Festival, Professor Tim Kendall is offering visitors a unique opportunity to explore the University of Exeter Library’s Special Collections. […]