Lord of the Flies

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beats. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are transformed into something more primitive, and their behaviour starts to take on a murderous, savage significance.

First published in 1954, "Lord of the Flies" is one of the most celebrates and widely read of modern classics.

"Beautiful and desperate... something quite out of the ordinary"
Observer

"Terrifying and haunting."
Kingsley Amis

"Beautifully written, tragic and provocative."
E. M. Forster