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 […]
Read more…William Golding’s legacy: His enduring influence on popular culture

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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 […]
Read more…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 […]
Read more…This is a guest post by Arabella Currie. Arabella is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Exeter, researching Golding’s engagement with Classics. […]
Read more…The sea is a frequent presence in Golding’s writing; it represents isolation for the boys in Lord of the Flies, and is the cause of […]
Read more…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, […]
Read more…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, […]
Read more…Looking for that last-minute present? Please enjoy our festive pictures of William Golding’s novels! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! […]
Read more…Pincher Martin has been included in Cynan Jones’s list of the best ten books about the hostile ocean. Published as part of the Guardian ongoing ‘Top 10’ […]
Read more…Martin Bennett discusses his current exhibition at Birch Contemporary in Toronto, and explains how Golding’s novels, in particular, Pincher Martin, have inspired his work. I […]
Read more…Lord of the Flies is one of those novels ‘you must have read’; it is a staple text on almost every high school curriculum, and […]
Read more…Lord of the Flies has long provided inspiration for makers of reality TV – Survivor, Big Brother, Kid Nation and Boys and Girls Alone. The […]
Read more…On Sky Arts, Melvyn Bragg has revisited classic episodes of his South Bank Show from the last thirty years, with new contemporary interviews, and Bragg’s […]
Read more…Adapting Golding’s Pincher Martin is a daunting task. The novel tells the story of Christopher ‘Pincher’ Martin, who is shipwrecked in the Atlantic Ocean and […]
Read more…This is a guest article by composer Oliver Rudland and Helen Roche It is a founding principle of the theatre that one should always ‘show, […]
Read more…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, […]
Read more…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 […]
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