If you liked John Carey’s The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies…

William Golding: Lord of the Flies
Golding may have had reservations but Lord of the Flies, his tale of a group of English schoolboys plane-wrecked on a deserted island, is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization fall away and the boys find themselves the hunted rather than the hunters. This gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct within the brutal playing field of adolescent competition.

William Golding: Rites of Passage
Rites of Passage, the first novel in his Sea Trilogy, won Golding the Booker Prize in 1980. The book is written as the journal of Edmund Talbot, an aristocratic passenger aboard a British warship to Australia, who writes to entertain his grandfather back in England. With wit and disdain he records mounting tensions onboard as an obsequious clergyman attracts the animosity of the tyrannical captain and surly crew.