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Round-up of William Golding in the news in July 2021! In The Guardian, novelist Monique Roffey cited Golding’s The Inheritors as the ‘book that had […]

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, […]

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 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 […]

Award-winning writer, Nina Allan, author of books including The Race and The Rift has written a fascinating post on science fiction. The post is inspired by […]

The most recent episode of the Backlisted podcast features William Golding’s The Inheritors! Backlisted was set up by John Mitchinson and Andy Miller and seeks […]

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 […]

The Australian author Thomas Keneally has named William Golding’s The Inheritors as one of the most ‘underrated books’ in an interview with The Guardian. Keneally won the […]

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 […]

Today marks the 90th anniversary of Golding’s publishers, Faber and Faber! The beginning of Golding’s relationship with Faber and Faber is the stuff of book […]

Round-up of William Golding in the news in May 2018! The Inheritors was included in the New York Times recommended books on Neanderthals and our early ancestors. The […]

When William Golding sent the manuscript of The Inheritors to his editor at Faber and Faber, Charles Monteith, he also sent a worried letter in […]

The Inheritors is William Golding’s second novel, published just a year after Lord of the Flies. At first glance, these two books couldn’t be much more different: Lord […]

Across Golding’s novels and other writings, the diversity of his female characters is often surprising. For example, there is the tragic Bounce in The Pyramid, […]

2017 marks the inaugural Salisbury Literary Festival, and we are delighted to announce that there will be a special William Golding event. Golding’s daughter Judy […]

On June 15th, I attended the Ted Hughes Network‘s inaugural conference at the University of Huddersfield to present my research into the literary relationship between […]

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

To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the publication of Golding’s second novel, The Inheritors, William Golding Ltd hosted a competition for artwork inspired by the novel. […]

Peter Green is a writer and an historian who was friends with William (Bill) Golding for much of his life. Here, writing in 2003, he […]