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
Christopher Pincher of conduct. Pincher rejoined the British government in January 2018 as Treasurer of the Household. Christopher Pincher Christopher John Pincher (born 24 September 1969) is a British Conservative Party politician serving as Deputy Chief Government Whip since 2018, and has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamworth since 2010. Pincher was first elected as MP for Tamworth at the 2010 general election, when he gained the seat from the Labour Party. He first contested the seat in 2005. Pincher has served as a Parliamentary Private Secretary to then Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, as an Assistant Whip and in January