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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

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

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

Succumb to one churchmans apocalyptic vision in this prophetic tale by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, William Golding (recorded by Benedict Cumberbatch as an audiobook).There were three sorts of people. Those who ran, those who stayed, and those who were built in.Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire. His master builder fearfully advises against it, for the old cathedral was miraculously built without foundations. But Jocelin is obsessed with fashioning his prayer in stone. As his halo of hair grows wilder and his dark angel darker, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, watched over by the gargoyles - until the stone pillars shriek, the earth beneath creeps, and the spires shadow falls like an axe on the medieval world below ...Astounding ... So recklessly beautiful, so sad and so strange ... Holds such a place in my soul that its more or less a sacred text.Sarah PerryA kind of miracle ... Genius.GuardianQuite simply, a marvel.NYRBSuperb ... A classic. Rebecca WestA master fabulist .. An iconoclast.John FowlesA visionary ... His masterwork [of] faith, folly and desperate desire ... Golding at his best. Benjamin Myers

Hunt, trek, and feast among Neanderthals in this stunning novel by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies. This was a different voice; not the voice of the people. It was the voice of other.When spring comes, the people leave their winter cave, foraging for honey, grubs, and the hot richness of a deers brain. They awaken the fire to heat their naked bodies, lay down their thorn bushes, and share pictures in their minds. But strange things are happening: inexplicable scents and sounds. Unimaginable beasts are half-glimpsed in the forest; upright creatures of bone-faces and deerskins. What the people dont know is that their day is already over ...Extraordinary ... Genius ... Remarkable in the literature of the twentieth century.Ben OkriA stun gun to read ... Truly a masterpiece.Monique RoffeyAn earthquake in the petrified forests of the English novel.Arthur KoestlerAn astonishing, underrated novel.Robert MacFarlaneBeautiful, powerful ... A visionary dream . Shakespearean.Ted HughesA master fabulist, and a brilliantly creative interpreter of remote history ... An iconoclast.John FowlesA tour de force ... Genius. Daily TelegraphAlarming, eye-opening, desolating, mind-invading and unique. New Statesman

An important and illuminating collection of essays and lectures by the winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature. William Golding writes about places as diverse as Wiltshire, where he lived for over half a century, Dutch waterways, Delphi, Egypt ancient and modern, and planet Earth herself. Other essays discuss books and ideas, and provide a fascinating background to the appreciate Goldings own writing and imagination. Includes Goldings Nobel Speech. Golding come through this collection as reserved and wary, but delightful . . . His writing is a joy.Sunday Times

Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War Two, he is taken as a prisoner-of-war, threatened with torture, then locked in a cell of total darkness to wait. He emerges from his cell transfigured from his ordeal, and begins to realise what man can be and what he has gradually made of himself through his own choices. But did those accumulated choices also begin to deprive him of his free will.

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.

Golding''s best-known novel is the story of a group of boys who, after a plane crash, set up a fragile community on a previously uninhabited island. As memories of home recede and the blood from frenzied pig-hunts arouses them, the boys'' childish fear turns into something deeper and more primitive.

At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long becomes furious and life on the island turns into a nightmare of panic and death. As ordinary standards of behaviour collapse, the whole world the boys know collapses with them - the world of cricket and homework and adventure stories - and another world is revealed beneath, primitive and terrible.

The iconic classic in a luxurious anniversary edition, with a foreword by Stephen King. 'There aren't any grown-ups anywhere.'A plane crashes on a desert island. but it isn't long before their innocent games devolve into something far more dangerous .

While mothers raise children in the bucolic Place of Women, Chimp is tormented by the Leopard Men in their brutal hunts, until he gains new wisdom . Imperial Rome. In an era of invention and exploration, the emperor realises he loves his illegitimate grandson more than his own loutish heir .

Locked in a lethal relationship, the two men stumble across Europe, shedding wives, self-respect and identities in a game of literary cat and mouse - and the climax of their odyssey, when it comes, i