News & Articles

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 January 2019! The release of two Fyre Festival documentaries prompted a series of articles comparing the experience […]

Round-up of William Golding in the news in October 2018! Julia Teti, in the Polygon, compared AMC’s The Walking Dead to Lord of the Flies. Teti particularly notes […]

Following a successful, and sold-out, run in 2018, Lazarus Theatre Company are bringing Lord of the Flies to the stage again! Directed by Ricky Dukes, the 2018 show […]

Round-up of William Golding in the news in September 2018! To celebrate the anniversary of Golding’s birth, we published a brand-new piece on his early […]

Round-up of William Golding in the news in August 2018! Casting for an all-female adaptation of Lord of the Flies was announced by What’s On Stage. This […]

A new article on William Golding and Ted Hughes has just been published in The Ted Hughes Society Journal. In it, Nicola Presley, Lecturer in English […]

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’. […]

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 […]

Round-up of William Golding in the news in April 2018! YA writer Chandra Prasad mentioned Lord of the Flies as one of her influences in an interview […]

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 […]