The Spire the Novels." "A most remarkable book, as unforeseeable as one foresaw, an entire original... remote from the mainstream, potent, severe, even forbidding." – Frank Kermode, New York Review of Books, 30 April 1964. The Spire The Spire is a 1964 novel by the English author William Golding. "A dark and powerful portrait of one man's will", it deals with the construction of the 404-foot high spire loosely based on Salisbury Cathedral; the vision of the fictional Dean Jocelin. In this novel, William Golding utilises stream of consciousness writing with an omniscient but increasingly fallible narrator. Jocelin, the Dean of the
Chapman Pincher before his death, Pincher suffered a stroke. He passed with his family by his side while his family and Pincher talked about the good ol’ days of espionage and the power it gave him in his career Pincher's son, Michael Chapman Pincher posted on his personal social media page saying "Our dad, Chapman Pincher (The Lone Wolf of Fleet Street) facing his death with: no regrets, no fear, and no expectation, died of old age on 05 August 2014 aged hundred and a quarter. "Harry" a journalist, author, fisherman, shot and scourge of politicians of all hues leaves Pat and