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 p...

As you know, Literature is a friend who does not feed, but only gives water. What, then, is Literary Criticism? Novelist Wilfrid Barclay, experiencing both a...

Before you is the “late” William Golding. A writer playing the most subtle intellectual “novel games” with the reader... “Visible Darkness” is an exquisite p...

“Lord of the Flies” is one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, which stands on a par with the immortal works of J. Orwell and O. Huxley. The sto...

One of the most perfect works of English literature. Golding’s “sea” trilogy. Three novels dedicated to the theme of the tragic clash between dreams and real...

A sequel to RITES OF PASSAGE, set on board a ship on its way to Australia. A ball is held on the ship whilst it is becalmed in a wilderness of heat and se...

At the height of the London blitz, a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire. Miraculously saved yet hideously scarred, tormented at school and at ...

A decrepit warship sails on the last stretch of its voyage to Sydney Cove. It has been blown off course and battered by wind, storm and ice. Little but ro...

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 ...

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...