The Double Tongue by William Golding an imprint of Penguin Random

an imprint of Penguin Random House

'poet laureate of the chemical generation'

These paintings were created over the course of decades of intense research and meticulous artistry

and the wealthy rub shoulders with the glamorous

the 'white Mughals' who wore local dress and adopted Indian ways were a source of embarrassment to successive colonial administrations

The Double Tongue by William Golding an imprint of Penguin RandomDid I believe in what I was doing? Or rather, since I was doing nothing, did I believe in what someone, something was doing to me? It begins with the half burnt fish, miraculously restored to life, and the healing of the ill child. Young Arieka is an unloved misfit, but as rumours of her spiritual powers reach the High Priest of Apollo, her life is transformed. She is taken to Delphi to become a Pythia: a mouthpiece for the god Apollo, an oracle