Fire Down Below
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A decrepit man of war sails on the last stretch of its voyage to Sydney Cove. It has been blown off course and battered by wind, storm and ice. Only rope holds the disintegrating hull together, and an unseen fire is smouldering below decks.
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Themes & subjects
Ocean travelFictionHistoryImmigrantsEnglish Sea storiesBritish and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
First published 2000Setting
Australia
About the authors
William Golding
19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993
The winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature, William Golding is among the most popular and influential British authors to have emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. Golding's reputation rests primarily upon his first novel, Lord of the Flies (1954), which is consistently regarded as an effective and disturbing portrayal of the fragility of civilization. **Childhood and college years** Golding was born in Saint Columb Minor in Cornwall, England, in 1911. His father, Alex, was a schoolmaster, while his mother, Mildred, was active in the Women's Suffrage Movement (the movement for women's right to vote). As a boy, his favorite authors included H. G. Wells (1866–1946), J…
Victoria Glendinning
23 April 1937
Hon Victoria Glendinning CBE (23 April 1937) is a British biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist. She is President of English PEN, a winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, was awarded a CBE in 1998 and is Vice-president of the Royal Society of Literature. She was born in Sheffield to a Quaker family, Her father was Baron Seebohm. Glendinning grew up near York and went to the University of Oxford to study modern languages. In the second year of her degree, she married one of her Spanish lecturers, Professor Nigel Glendinning in 1958. They divorced in 1981. Her second husband Terence de Vere White died of Parkinson's disease in 1994 and she remarried in 1996. She had four sons…
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