Reading Group
Tuesday 13th August
First Floor, Topping & Company Booksellers of Ely, 9 High Street, Ely, Cambridgeshire CB7 4LJ
7pm
7.30pm
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Prehistoric Double Bill
The Inheritors by William Golding
& Stig of the Dump by Clive King
As startling to read now as it was on its appearance in 1955, William Golding's boldly fictional depiction of a Neanderthal band's clash with a band of Homo Sapiens is a powerful, poetic challenge to conventional notions of human evolution and exclusivity, particularly celebrated for its sensitive inhabiting of the pre-historic mind. For this meeting, it will be paired with Clive King's 1963 classic, telling of young Barney's rewarding friendship with the mysterious Stig - a man who wears skins, uses flint tools and lives in a chalk pit, having seemingly strayed from a very different past. A shrewd, subtle, haunting book, conceived for children but widely treasured by adults. RPJ