Wakening
By Derek Johns
Portobello Books £10.99, 208 pages
FT bookshop price: £8.79

A young man sits in a café, poring over a map of Morocco. His eye falls on “places with beautiful names like Zagora and Taroudant” and he finds himself wondering what a kasbah is. Without quite knowing why, he suddenly realises that “he must go to Morocco to discover who he was”.