Alastair Bonnett is Professor of Social Geography at Newcastle University.
He is the author of several books including, Off the Map: Forgotten Islands, Abandoned Spaces, Feral Places, Invisible Cities and What They Tell Us About the World (published in the US under the title Unruly Places) which has been translated into 12 languages; Beyond the Map: Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands and our Search for New Utopias; New Views; What is Geography?; How to Argue; The Age of Islands: In Search of New and Disappearing Islands (published in the US as Elsewhere: A Journey into our Age of Islands); and, most recently, 40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World.
A new book, Extraordinary Islands: An Atlas of Unlikely Places will be published in October 2025.
