William Golding
William Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911. Before he became a schoolmaster he was an actor, a lecturer, a small-boat sailor and a musician. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and saw action against battleships, submarines and aircraft. He was present at the sinking of the Bismarck. He finished the war as a Lieutenant in command of a rocket ship, which was off the French coast for the D-day invasion, and later at the island of Welcheren. After the war he returned to Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury and was there when his first novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954. He gave up teaching in 1961. Lord of the Flies was filmed by Peter Brook in 1963. He won the Booker Prize for his novel Rites of Passage in 1980, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988. He died at his home in the summer of 1993.
Books by William Golding
The Inheritors
Published: September 2015
A startling recreation of the lost world of the neanderthals, and a frightening vision of the beginnings of a new age.
The Paper Men
Published: January 2014
The classic Golding novel republished with a beautiful new jacket.
Darkness Visible
Published: January 2014
Set in the London Blitz, the classic novel by William Golding in a stunning new cover, and a new introduction.
Fire Down Below
Published: December 2013
The third volume of William Golding's acclaimed Sea Trilogy.
Close Quarters
Published: December 2013
The sequel to Golding's Booker-winning novel Rites of Passage.
Rites of Passage
Published: November 2013
The classic novel from Golding's Sea Trilogy, now with a beautiful new cover.
Lord of the Flies
Published: November 2013
A new educational edition, fully revised and updated with new material, and featuring artwork by the winner of the Faber/Guardian illustration competition.
Pincher Martin
Published: September 2013
From the author of Lord of the Flies, Pincher Martin is a terrifying and unforgettable journey into one man's mind.
The Pyramid
Published: September 2013
The Pyramid, widely considered to be Golding's funniest and most accessible novel, is now re-issued in a stunning new cover style.
The Scorpion God
Published: May 2013
A collection of three of William Golding's stories with an introduction by Craig Raine.
Double Tongue
Published: May 2013
An aged prophetess at Delphi, the most sacred oracle in ancient Greece, looks back over her strange life as the Pythia, the First Lady and voice of the god Apollo.
Lord of the Flies
Published: August 2011
William Goldings classic debut novel, republished to mark his centenary.
Lord of the Flies
Published: August 2009
Martin Jarvis reads William Golding's classic novel in a major new unabridged recording.
Lord of the Flies
Published: December 2006
First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics.
To the Ends of the Earth
Published: February 2005
