Golding, William

Shipwrecked on an island, boys try to act civilized but soon regress into chaos.

The final, unfinished novel of the Nobel Prize winning author tells the story of Arieka, a young unattractive girl who is taken under the wing of Ionides, High Priest of Apollo, to be trained as a Pythia, or mouthpiece to the God.

Stranded on an island while an atomic war destroys the rest of the world, a group of young boys revert to savagery as they struggle to survive.

A selection of short writings by the prize winning author which includes discussion of the background to some of his works.

Stranded on an island while an atomic war destroys the rest of the world, a group of young boys revert to savagery as they struggle to survive.