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The actor Julian Sands is the narrator of a new audio book of Golding’s 1957 novel Pincher Martin. Sands has had a varied and hugely […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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, […]

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, […]

Looking for that last-minute present? Please enjoy our festive pictures of William Golding’s novels! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!         […]

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’ […]

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 […]

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 […]

Lord of the Flies has long provided inspiration for makers of reality TV – Survivor, Big Brother, Kid Nation and Boys and Girls Alone. The […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]