Fire Down Below

Introduced by Kate Mosse

William Golding, Kate Mosse

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English

Faber & Faber
15 June 2022

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Navigation & seamanship

I think there has been death in my hands.

On the last stretch of its epic voyage from England to Australia, a disintegrating warship inches towards land. But there are still trials ahead, as the vessel is smashed against an ice cliff and blasted by a great storm, while the claustrophobic passengers battle erotic desires, masculine rivalry and violent power struggles - all experiencing a sea change in their natures. And when an unseen fire begins to smoulder below decks, the other side of the world has never seemed further away ...

'A truly noble achievement'. - Patrick O'Brien

'Laden to the waterline with a rich cargo of practicalities and poetry, pain and hilarity, drama and exaltation.' - Sunday Times

To The Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy - Book Three

By: William Golding
Introduction by: Kate Mosse
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 160mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 322g
ISBN: 9780571371679
ISBN 10: 0571371671
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 15 June 2022
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

William Golding (1911 - 1993) was born in Cornwall and educated at Marlborough Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford. Before becoming a writer, he was an actor, small-boat sailor, musician and schoolteacher. In 1940 he joined the Royal Navy and took part in the D-Day operation and liberation of Holland. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was rejected by several publishers but rescued from the 'reject pile' at Faber and published in 1954. It became a modern classic selling millions of copies, translated into 44 languages and made into a film by Peter Brook in 1963. Golding wrote eleven other novels, a play and two essay collections. He won the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage in 1980 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. He was knighted in 1988 and died in 1993. www.william-golding.co.uk Kate Mosse is an award-winning novelist, playwright, essayist and non-fiction writer, the author of eight novels and short story collections, including the multimillion-selling Languedoc Trilogy, The Burning Chambers Series and number one bestselling Gothic fiction The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist's Daughter. Her books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and published in more than forty countries. Founder Director of the Women's Prize for Fiction, she is also the Founder of the global Woman In History campaign.

Reviews for Fire Down Below: Introduced by Kate Mosse

'The best novel I've read this year ... The language fizzes and spits.' - Daily Telegraph 'Awesome ... Ambivalent, unresolved, walking a tightrope between reason and spirituality, tragedy and comedy ... So compelling and disturbing.' - Victoria Glendinning