Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and d...

William Golding's final novel, left in draft at his death, tells the story of a priestess of Apollo. Arieka is one of the last to prophesy at Delphi, in t...

When the spring came the people - what was left of them - moved back by the old paths from the sea. But this year strange things were happening, terrifyin...

Fame, success, fortune, a drink problem slipping over the edge into alcoholism, a dead marriage, the incurable itches of middle-aged lust. For Wilfred Bar...

Oliver is eighteen and wants to enjoy himself before going to university. But this is the 1920s and he lives in Stilbourne, a small English country town w...

The three short novels in this collection, The Scorpion God, show Golding at his playful, ironic and mysterious best. In 'The Scorpion God' we see the wor...

Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral ...

A new one-volume edition of this classic sequence of sea novels set in the early nineteenth century, about a voyage from England to Australia.

Double Tongue is the latest work by William Golding. The work is deceptively “historical,” deceptively “simplified for perception.” However, the story of the...

“Heirs.” A unique novel about the clash of primitive tribes, in which the culture and mentality of our distant ancestors are depicted with amazing accuracy, ...

The work of William Golding (1911-1993) belongs to the most striking phenomena in British literature of the second half of the 20th century. After the releas...