Lord of the Flies

With a new foreword by Lois Lowry, Golding's landmark 1954 novel remains one of the best books ever written for young adults and an unforgettable classic for readers of all ages.A plane crashes on an uncharted island during the start of the next world war, stranding a bunch of schoolboys. At first, their independence is something to rejoice over because they have no parental oversight. They may do whatever they want because they are so far away from civilisation. Anything. But when order crumbles, weird howls reverberate through the night, and panic takes hold, the prospect of adventure appears as remote as the prospect of being rescued.

'An existential fable backlit with death's incandescent glare.' - Ben Okri

'Violently real ... An apocalyptic novelist [who writes with] humanist rage and defiance.' - Marlon James


'Beautiful and desperate, something quite out of the ordinary.' - Stevie Smith

'A fragment of nightmare.' - New Statesman

'A post-apocalyptic, dystopian survivor-fantasy ... [A novel] for all time ... A cult classic.' - Guardian

An existential fable backlit with death's incandescent glare -- Ben Okri

Thrills me with all the power a fiction can have ... Exemplary. -- Ian McEwan

One of my favourite books - I read it every couple of years. -- Suzanne Collins

Violently real. . . An apocalyptic novelist [who writes with] humanist rage and defiance. -- Marlon James

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. -- Stephen King