William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954. A group of boys are stranded on a deserted island after their plane crashes. There are no adults and the boys struggle to live ...

At the time when William Golding was writing Lord of the Flies, Britain was a very different society. Although World War Two had ended in 1945, the after-effects were still being felt. For ...

William Golding is interviewed in 1959, shortly after the publication of his fourth novel, 'Free Fall', and while still working as a teacher at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury. Golding ...

But it is William Golding's iconic text Lord of the Flies which topped King's list. The 315-page book tells the story of a group of British boys stranded on a deserted island who try to create ...

Lord of the Flies by William Golding looks at the dark side of humanity as a group of boys turn against one another in the face of an imagined enemy. Characters - Edexcel Lord of the Flies focuses ...