The PyramidOliver is eighteen, and wants to enjoy himself before going to university. But this is the 1920s, and he lives in Stilbourne, a small English country town, where everyone knows what everyone else is getting up to, and where love, lust and rebellion are closely followed by revenge and embarrassment. Written with great perception and subtlety, The Pyramid is Golding's funniest and most light hearted novel, which probes the painful awkwardness of the

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he leaves behind his heartbroken secretary

To this unnamed planet comes the odd-looking man known as the Exile

The Rising is a tour de force McGilloways most personal novel so far

all heading for the Great Exhibition in Moscow

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Twenty-three years with no rescue possible

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Instructive and witty

perfect for fans of Legends and Lattes and Nettle and Bone

She is now a freedwoman with wealth and influence

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