At thirty-six, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just deserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancerstr…
Sexing the Cherry celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perceptions of history and reality; love and sex; lies and truths; and the twelve dancing princesses who l…
"Marvellous trilogy... Fire Down Below brings the whole magical enterprise to a prosperous and happy conclusion." John Bayley, Guardian
"Golding's best and most accessible story since Lord of the Flies... What makes Rites of Passage such a pleasure, and such an artistic triumph, is the verve and buoyancy which Golding brings to pot…
A leathery bog-man transforms an old love affair; a sweet, gruesome gift is sent to the wife of an ex-lover; landscape paintings are haunted by the ghost of a young girl. This dazzling new collecti…