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WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR ILLUSTRATION
Before The Stand and The Hunger Games, before Battle Royale and Yellowjackets, there was Lord of the Flies.
‘The first book that reached out of the pages and seized me by the throat.’
Stephen King
‘One of my favorite books.’
Suzanne Collins, author of The Hunger Games
A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors, a group of schoolboys. By day, they explore the dazzling beaches. By night, they are haunted by nightmares of a primitive beast and of what they’ve lost.
‘There aren’t any grown-ups anywhere.’
Orphaned by society, they must forge their own; but it isn’t long before the group is split, and their innocent games take a dangerous turn.
‘What are we? Humans? Or Animals?’
For the first time, from acclaimed artist Aimée de Jongh, comes the stunning graphic novel adaptation of this classic story, one of the BBCs ‘100 Novels that shaped our World’.
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William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential writers of modern times. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, has been read by millions, translated into more than forty-five languages, and adapted for screen and stage drama. He drew on his own experience as a teacher and his service in the…
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Aimée de Jongh
Aimée de Jongh is a renowned graphic novelist. Her debut The Return of the Honey Buzzard won the Prix Saint-Michel and was adapted to a live-action film whilst her graphic novel Days of Sand was an international bestseller, and nominated for two Eisner awards. She has been published in eleven languages to date.
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