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 Daily Express could see the potential in each piece he sent in and they wanted him to come and write for them as a career. Pincher had a friend that worked for the Daily Express and eventually began his work there as an investigative journalist. At the "Daily Express", Pincher developed his own style of investigative journalism, actively seeking out high-level contacts to obtain secret information. Pincher career as a journalist involved unveiling Cold War secrets in London for the "Daily Express". During his career, he had contact with the British Government that MI5 and MI6 could possibly be providing