News & Articles

In response to David Shariatmadari’s article in the Guardian, Judy Golding Carver wrote the following: The reviewer’s characterisation of my father’s novel Lord of the Flies was a […]

By Judy (Golding) Carver In 2011, the centenary year of my father William Golding, a brilliant and original idea was put to our family by […]

Judy (Golding) Carver has written a chapter ‘William Golding’s Mother’, in a new collection entitled Writers and their Mothers, edited by by Dale Salwak. An edited version […]

Rites of Passage, the first book of Golding’s Sea Trilogy, has been included in Elizabeth Lowry’s list of stories set on ships, published in the Wall […]

Jack from Lord of the Flies has been featured in the Literary Hub’s article on the 15 Creepiest Children in Literature. Jack earns his place by virtue […]

We have just released our wonderful introductory film about Golding’s novel The Spire. The film features excerpts of the book read by Benedict Cumberbatch and some […]

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 […]

Lord of the Flies has been frequently used by journalists as an allegory for recent global political upheavals. However, Tim Harford, writing in the Financial Times, compares […]

The latest instalment in the Guardian’s ‘Top 10 Novels’ series features fiction ‘about God’, chosen by author Neil Griffiths. Griffiths selects a variety of books, […]

We were recently invited to St Swithun’s School, Winchester, to watch their dramatic adaptation of Lord of the Flies. As St Swithun’s is an all-girls […]

St Swithun’s Senior School, in Winchester, Hampshire, are embarking on an all-female adaptation of Golding’s seminal novel Lord of the Flies! We are very excited to […]

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, […]

This is a guest post written by Rachel Lindan. Marlborough is an obvious must-visit for the William Golding enthusiast wishing to make a literary pilgrimage, […]

Kazuo Ishiguro has just been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature. Like Golding, Ishiguro is a Faber and Faber author, and the twelfth author […]

William Golding Limited always welcomes interest in Lord of the Flies and is glad to see continued debate about the ideas in the novel. However, […]

Channel 4’s Eden is a social experiment/reality series which placed 23 strangers in a remote part of the Scottish Highlands, and asked them to start a community […]

The University of Exeter has just announced an exciting opportunity for graduate students interested in the work of William Golding. They are offering a fully-funded […]

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 […]

MashReads, from MashableUK, recently reread Lord of the Flies for their MashReads weekly podcast and they say it’s ‘way more sinister than you remember’! Well worth […]

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 […]