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 […]
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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 […]
Read more…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…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 […]
Read more…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 […]
Read more…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 […]
Read more…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 […]
Read more…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 […]
Read more…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 […]
Read more…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, […]
Read more…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 […]
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