ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT CHANGED OUR WORLD'
'Exciting, relevant and thought provoking.' STEPHEN KING
'One of my favourite books.' SUZANNE COLLINS
'Exemplary.' IAN MCEWAN

With an Introduction by Executive Producer Joel Wilson, Director Marc Munden and Writer Jack Thorne

'There aren't any grown-ups anywhere.'

A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of schoolboys. By day, they explore the dazzling beaches, gorging fruit, seeking shelter, and ripping off their uniforms to swim in the lagoon. At night, in the darkness of the jungle, they are haunted by nightmares of a primitive beast.

Orphaned by society, they must forge their own; but it isn't long before their innocent games devolve into something far more dangerous . . .
Les mer
The first book with hands - strong ones that reached out of the pages and seized me by the throat. It said to me, 'This is not just entertainment; it's life or death.' ... I've been thinking about it ever since, for fifty years and more.
Les mer
A major four-part BBC series, for Spring 2026, written and adapted by Jack Thorne (Adolescence & Wonder)

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780571403097
Publisert
2026-01-15
Utgiver
Faber & Faber
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
J, 02
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
240

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Biografisk notat

William Golding was born in Cornwall and educated in Marlborough and Oxford. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was turned down by several publishers but rescued from the 'reject pile' at Faber and published in 1954. It became a modern classic, selling millions of copies, before being made into a film by Peter Brook in 1963. Golding wrote eleven other novels, including the 1980 Booker Prize winning Rites of Passage. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983, was knighted in 1988 and died in 1993.