Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr, Fourth Estate, £20

It’s seven years since Doerr took the Pulitzer Prize for All The Light We Cannot See, but this ambitious epic is worth the wait.

Set in present-day Idaho, Constantinople in 1453, and in a spaceship in the future e, it spotlight important issues.

Climate change, war, abuse, poverty, and terrorism are in there, as is the concept of freedom, the value of the natural world.

Captivating!