Below as well as The Inheritors, Pincher Martin, and the story of Jack, Ralph, and Piggy, Lord of the Flies.
In the first book of a trilogy by this author, the protagonist bags Zenobia Brockelbanck and observes Reverend Colley's habit of urinating on the deck of the ship, and later undergoes a conversion after Billy Rogers escapes a charge of fellatio by charging his superior officers with "buggery." In addition to the Billy Talbot books, he wrote a book about Ha, Mal, and Lok, while another of his books describes the attempted murder of Nathaniel Walterson by a man who slowly dies on an ocean rock.  He is probably best known for a book based on Ballantyne's The Coral Island, in which the "littluns" and "Samneric" fear a mysterious beast. FTP, name this author of the naval trilogy Rites of Passage, Close Quarters, and Fire Down Below as well as The Inheritors, Pincher Martin, and the story of Jack, Ralph, and Piggy, Lord of the Flies.
In the first book of a trilogy by this author, the protagonist bags Zenobia Brockelbanck and observes Reverend Colley's habit of urinating on the deck of the ship, and later undergoes a conversion after Billy Rogers escapes a charge of fellatio by charging his superior officers with "buggery."
William Golding