The Island Of Missing Trees

Elif Shafak, Viking, £14.99

Shafak is best known for 10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World, told from the perspective of a woman after her death.

Her latest is told from the perspective of a fig tree – originally in Cyprus, and then regrown in London.

We learn the story of 16-year-old Ada in and the history of her parents: the Greek Kostas and Turkish Defne, who had a secret relationship in the fractured Cyprus of the ’70s.