Write what you know: so Marina Lewycka, a Ukranian born in a refugee camp in Germany and raised in Yorkshire, wrote about migration. Her bestselling A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is the hilarious tale of a dysfunctional immigrant Ukrainian family in the UK, who unite over their aging father’s marriage to a young Ukrainian divorcee, while Two Caravans is the story of migrant strawberry farm workers from three continents traveling across England, chasing their dreams.