William Golding
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A ‘really subversive idea’: Most people are pretty decent
- Books
- May 23, 2020, 06:00
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman has a reputation for switching into attack mode during interviews. Okay, just two interviews but still enough to make T(...)

Lord of the Flies was fiction. In the real world things turned out differently
- Books
- May 22, 2020, 06:01
The idea that children are savages and would murder one another without the civilising hand of their elders is a convenient story we have told each ot(...)

Real-life Lord of the Flies story sparks film rights scramble
- Film
- May 19, 2020, 07:19
A real-life Lord of the Flies-style shipwreck has sparked a scramble for screen-adaptation rights among film and TV producers. The writer of an artic(...)

Meet Andrew Giuliani – Donald Trump’s golf pro in residence
- Golf
- January 1, 2020, 17:03
The scene was Trump National Golf Club in Northern Virginia on a summer’s day in 2017. The foursome consisted of the rules-averse golfer now known as (...)

The literary world was taken by surprise tonight when the Booker Prize for 2019 was awarded to two books focusing on the experiences of women in socie(...)

Let’s remake every film with an all-female cast. No, hear me out. There are obviously some downsides to this plan. For starters, we have enough remake(...)

Eden review: Will 23 people create a utopian nirvana or a man-made disaster?
- TV, Radio, Web
- July 19, 2016, 13:03
Imagine if we could just start again? That’s the big question posed by new back-to-basics reality show Eden (Mondays 9pm, Channel 4). The series aim(...)

The cobwebs are blown off the English curriculum
- Books
- September 2, 2015, 06:00
Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman has topped reading lists all over the world this summer. The story of the long-hidden second novel by the bestsellin(...)

Conor Brady: ‘readers need never be lonely; writers need never be idle’
- Books
- October 2, 2014, 01:28
What was the first book to make an impression on you? Cannery Row by John Steinbeck. A disturbingly subversive book for an adolescent schoolboy(...)

Harvest time for Jim Crace as he signs off with a final novel
- Books
- March 11, 2013, 02:00
Despite having written several of the finest British novels of the past 20 years – including Arcadia (...)