William Golding

Christopher Martin, the sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer, is stranded upon a rock in the middle of the Atlantic. Pitted against him are the sea, the sun, the night cold and the terror of his isolation. Meer

Swept into World War II, he is captured as a German prisoner of war, threatened with torture and locked in a cell of total darkness. Meer

Presents a sequence of sea novels set in the early nineteenth century, about a voyage from England to Australia. Meer

As his halo of hair grows wilder and his dark angel darker, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, watched over by the gargoyles - until the stone pillars shriek, the earth beneath creeps, and the spire's shadow falls like an axe on the medieval world below . Meer