My favourite books of 2023

I know I’m a month late for this sort of thing and everyone else writes their best-of lists in December. But I tend to get a lot of reading done over the Christmas period. Better late than never.

As usual, there’s no particular order to these favourites. Of just over a hundred books I got through in 2023, here are a handful that I enjoyed most, got plenty from, and would recommend for a variety of reasons.

The Seaweed Revolution, by Vincent Doumeizel

I’ve been expecting this book f...