From jaw-dropping non-fiction to page-turning novels, here are our books of the year
Cosy Japanese fiction – featuring bookshops, libraries, and many, many, cats – boomed; as did BookTok’s favourite genre, romantasy.
In French Polynesia in the near future, a once quiet island has been chosen for humanity’s latest advancement: seasteading, or put another way, an American corporation colonising the sea in order to create floating autonomous cities. Recounted here by journalist Sophie Elmhirst, whose depth of research and interviews bring this remarkable story to life in high definition, this is a book of survival, of love and marriage, and of the power and beauty of the natural world.
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