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 […]
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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…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 […]
Read more…The alternative rock group, Panic! At the Disco have namechecked Lord of the Flies in ‘Roaring 20s’, a track on their new album, ‘Pray for the Wicked’. […]
Read more…The Hunger Games, Gone, Battle Royale, The Maze Runner are all recent YA novels which share a common source of inspiration – William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. With the release […]
Read more…Digital Spy have produced a list of the top 25 Alan Partridge moments. Sneaking in at number 25 is Alan’s radio phone-in question: ‘Who is the […]
Read more…Tickets are now on sale for a very special event at Marlborough Literature Festival! Golding’s daughter Judy, and Nicola Presley, Lecturer in English at Bath […]
Read more…SPOILER ALERT: Do not read on unless you are up to date with The Walking Dead Season 7… The long summer of waiting is now over, […]
Read more…Recently, I wrote about how Lord of the Flies had become the perfect allegory for U.S. politics and for the reporting of the presidential election. Now, Matthew […]
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 […]
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