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A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys'' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance. First published in 1954, "Lord of the Flies" is one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern classics.

Introduced by Kate Mosse, lose yourself in an epic naval journey in the final novel in the Booker Prize-winning historical fiction Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the Flies. I think there has been death in my hands.On the last stretch of its epic voyage from England to Australia, a disintegrating warship inches towards land. But there are still trials ahead, as the vessel is smashed against an ice cliff and blasted by a great storm, while the claustrophobic passengers battle erotic desires, masculine rivalry and violent power struggles - all experiencing a sea change in their natures. And when an unseen fire begins to smoulder below decks, the other side of the world has never seemed further away ...Fantastic ... Gems tumble off the pages ... A strong sense of drama ... Much of the pleasure of reading his work is his original imagery. Annie ProulxA truly noble achievement. Patrick OBrienThe best novel Ive read this year ... The language fizzes and spits.Daily TelegraphReeks and resounds with authenticity ... The epic imaginative enterprise [is] as formidable a feat as the year-long odyssey it charts.Sunday TimesGolding writes the past as present [with] uncanny skill and tremendous intuition. Ben OkriTo The Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy - Book Three

Lose yourself in an epic naval journey in the second novel in the Booker Prize-winning historical fiction Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the Flies. This tropical nowhere was the whole world - the whole imaginable world.A decrepit warship is becalmed halfway to Australia, stilled in an ocean wilderness of heat and sea mists. In this surreal, fete-like atmosphere, a ball is held with a passing ship: the passengers dance and flirt, while beneath them seaweed like green hair spreads omniously over the hull. Half-mad with fear, drink, love and opium, both vessel and passengers feel themselves going to pieces: and the very planks seem to twist themselves alive as the ship comes apart at the seams . . .Fantastic ... Gems tumble off the pages ... A strong sense of drama ... Much of the pleasure of reading his work is his original imagery. Annie ProulxNo living writer has represented the fragility of mans experience so marvellously as Golding. AS ByattIt is in Goldings magnificent, therapeutic, terrifying descriptions of seascapes that the deepest meanings can be found. Kate MosseStunning . . . As exciting as any thriller.Sunday TimesA feat of imaginative reconstruction, as vivid as a dream.Daily MailTells an utterly absorbing tale, in language of immense force and subtlety.Financial TimesTo The Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy - Book Two

Follow young Olivers rebellious coming-of-age in the village of Stillbourne in this comic novel by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies. Eighteen is a good time for suffering Welcome to the country town of Stillbourne. Restless teenage resident Oliver wants to enjoy himself before going to university, beginning with his pursuit of the Town Criers daughter. But in this claustrophobic community - stifled by the English class system, and where everybody knows everyones business - love, lust and rebellion are closely followed by revenge and embarrassment . . .Golding depicts with subtle skill all the pains of growing up and growing old. He treats us to some superb comic episodes.Daily TelegraphGoldings most approachable novel and a curiously personal one, that returns to the mind again and again as if the shames and idylls were ones own.Guardian Neatly drawn, funny and touching . . . The snap, the tang, and the tension in Goldings prose is always a pleasure.Harpers

The destinies of three mysterious lost children entwine in this James Tait Black Memorial Prize-winning fable by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies.A figure had condensed out of the shuddering backdrop of the glare.He is born in fire: a naked child in the blood-red flames of Londons Blitz. Miraculously saved but grotesquely burned, this mysterious orphan is named Matty. Doomed to a life of torment, he becomes a wanderer, a spiritual seeker after unknown redemption. They are also lost children: neglected twins, as exquisitely beautiful as they are loveless and sinful. Toni explores political terrorism; Sophy, sexual dominance and violent criminality. But their destinies will soon collide in an apocalyptic climax - one that illuminates the inner and outer darkness of modern humanity. Exceptional ... Irresistibly transcendent ... Golding seduces us. He transfixes, bewitches and confounds us.Nicola BarkerExtraordinary ... A hallucinatory, incantatory force ... The most powerful, and strangest, of all Goldings novels, and one of the great masterpieces of the twentieth-century English novel. Philip HensherA master craftsman in his particular sort of magic ... Goldings best book ... Wonderfully creepy ... A remarkable achievement.London Review of BooksA vision of elemental reality so vivid we seem to hallucinate the scenes ... Magic.New York Times Book ReviewAn intensity of vision without parallel.TLSOne of the most moving books Ive ever read.The TimesBrilliantly spooky ... Written with great insight and a surprising humour, it is a thorough pleasure.Atlantic Monthly

Commissioned by the leading actor Alastair Sim (1900-1976) The Brass Butterfly was Goldings only original stage play. Starring Sim himself, and also the popular actor George Cole, it opened for a provincial pre-West End run in Oxford in early 1958 and premiered at the Strand Theatre in London in April. In his biography of Golding, John Carey describes it as a comic scherzo dealing with the conflict between science and religion, transposed to the Greco-Roman world of antiquity.

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