Divisadero
By Michael Ondaatje
Bloomsbury £17.99, 274 pages
FT bookshop price: £14.39

Michael Ondaatje’s fiction often grows out of an image. His most celebrated novel, The English Patient, for which he shared the 1992 Booker prize, had at its origin a vision of an aeroplane crashing into the desert. Who was in it, or why, was unclear until he began working on the book.