Free FallSomehow, somewhere, Sammy Mountjoy lost his freedom, the faculty of freewill 'that cannot be debated but only experienced, like a colour or the taste of potatoes'. As he retraces his life in an effort to discover why he no longer has the power to choose and decide for himself, the narrative moves between England and a prisoner of war camp in Germany. In Free Fall, his fourth novel, William Golding has created a poetic fiction, and an allegory, as

When ambitious young documentary film-maker Nick witnesses the death of a notorious arms dealer in Sri Lanka

which complicates his sense of loyalty

Niven whose character has been forged in the crucible of the Somme

Finding herself on the run with Jones across America's Southwest

and her new job at the American Library in Paris - with its thriving community of students

With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not the perpetrator

By the time morning comes

Mr and Mrs Dearly

From internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard

who vanished long ago

But here the sweetness of decay was tainted with something else

Alone and facing the suspicion and hostility of the villagers