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, introduced by Nicola Barker.
William Golding (1911 - 1993) was born in Cornwall and educated at
Marlborough Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford. Before
becoming a writer, he was an actor, small-boat sailor, musician and
schoolteacher. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and took part in
the D-Day operation and liberation of Holland. Lord of the Flies,
his first novel, was rejected by several publishers but rescued
from the 'reject pile' at Faber and published in 1954. It became a
modern classic selling millions of copies, translated into 44
languages and made into a film by Peter Brook in 1963. Golding
wrote eleven other novels, a play and two essay collections. He won
the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980 and the Nobel Prize
in Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988 and died in 1993.
www.william-golding.co.uk.
Nicola Barker was born in Ely in 1966 and spent part of her
childhood in South Africa. She is the author of twelve
prize-winning novels and two short story collections. She has been
twice longlisted and once shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, has
won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys and
the Hawthornden Prizes, and was named one of Granta's 20 Best Young
British Writers. H(A)PPY, won the 2017 Goldsmiths Prize and was
longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018; and her most
recent novel is I Am Sovereign.
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