William Golding

Dutch historian Rutger Bregman has a reputation for switching into attack mode during interviews. Okay, just two interviews but still enough to make T(...)

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(...)

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(...)

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(...)

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(...)

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(...)

What was the first book to make an impression on you? Cannery Row by John Steinbeck. A disturbingly subversive book for an adolescent schoolboy(...)

Despite having written several of the finest British novels of the past 20 years – including Arcadia (...)