Lord of the Flies bestselling author and co-owner of

bestselling author and co-owner of Books Are Magic

All the way back to Dickie at ten years old

Shortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K

in the monotone of a vagabond

Lord of the Flies bestselling author and co-owner ofWhen "Lord of the Flies" appeared in 1954 it received unprecedented reviews for a first novel. Critics used such phrases as "beautifully writeen, tragic and provocative vivid and enthralling this beautiful and desperate book completely convincing and often very frightening its progress is magnificient like a fragment of nightmare a dizzy climax of terror the terrible spell of this book" E. M. Forster chose it as the Outstanding Novel of the Year.