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These are our favourite books of 2023, works that challenged and delighted us with tales of life, love and very often rock n roll
With Wayward, Vashti Bunyan disidentifies her story from its countercultural return-to-nature mythology, writes Alice Keeling
Our literature correspondent Chris Bateman goes down the rabbit hole to report back on his ten favourite books of the year
Bobby Gillespie’s autobiography is a devotional, often hedonistic tale of rock and roll, punk and acid house salvation, writes Chris Bateman
Hanif Abdurraqib interrogates history through the lens of lived experience in his essay collection celebrating Black performance
Barwise and York’s book offers unexpected conclusions while equipping the reader to counter arguments against the BBC, writes Chris Bateman
Stewart Gardiner emerges from the Concrete Islands library to discuss books by Rachel Cusk and Gordon Burn, alongside Urbanomic’s Unsound: Undead
Acosta’s 1972 The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo has been reissued into an alarmingly unchanged world and is as relevant as ever, argues Chris Bateman