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Lord of the Flies
William Golding

ISBN10: 0571273572 ISBN13: 9780571273577
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Edition: Centenary ed.
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Aug 2011
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... More

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The Inheritors
William Golding

ISBN10: 0571273580 ISBN13: 9780571273584
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Aug 2011
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, terrifying things that had never happened before. What the people didn't, and perhaps never would... More

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Lord of the Flies
William Golding

ISBN10: 0571191479 ISBN13: 9780571191475
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Jan 1998
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... More

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Lord of the Flies
William Golding

ISBN10: 0571056865 ISBN13: 9780571056866
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Edition: Educational ed
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jan 1973
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... More

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The Pyramid
William Golding

ISBN10: 0571255256 ISBN13: 9780571255252
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Sep 2010
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, where everyone knows what everyone else is getting up to, and where love, lust and... More

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The Spire
William Golding

ISBN10: 0571225462 ISBN13: 9780571225460
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Apr 2005
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 was built without foundations. Nevertheless, the spire rises octagon upon octagon... More

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Rites of Passage
William Golding

ISBN10: 0571191444 ISBN13: 9780571191444
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Mar 1997
In the cabin of an ancient, stinking warship bound for Australia, a man writes a journal to entertain his godfather back in England. With wit and disdain he records mounting tensions on board, as an obsequious clergyman attracts the animosity of... More

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Close Quarters
William Golding

ISBN10: 0571191452 ISBN13: 9780571191451
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Aug 2000
Following "Rites of Passage", this is second of Golding's "Sea Trilogy". Half-way to Australia in a wilderness of heat, stillness and sea mists, a ball is held on a becalmed ship. In this surreal atmosphere the passengers dance and flirt... More

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Pincher Martin
William Golding

ISBN10: 0571225454 ISBN13: 9780571225453
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Apr 2005
Drowning in the freezing North Atlantic, Christopher Hadley Martin, temporary lieutenant, happens upon a grotesque rock, an island that appears only on weather charts. To drink there is a pool of rain water; to eat there are weeds and sea-anemones. More

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Darkness Visible
William Golding

ISBN10: 0571116469 ISBN13: 9780571116461
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Feb 1981
A reissue of the tour de force by the Nobel laureate that is " a vision of elemental reality so vivid we seem to hallucinate the scenes" ("The New York Times Book Review"). It opens during the London blitz, when a naked child steps out of an all... More

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