Fiction round-up: Doom Painting by A. K. Blackmore; Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead; The Late Life by Bernhard Schlink

THE relationship between a good life and a life feeling good in the moment, is at the heart of this autumn’s fiction. In A. K. Blakemore’s Doom Painting (Granta, £20 (£18); 978-1-80351-273-0*), a “sellsword” mercenary, Robert Crane, is transformed...