2023 is almost over and I thought I’d look back at some of my favourite books of the year… 📚📚📖.

RT @GeneDannen: 80 years ago today, at the Trinity test on July 16, 1945, Enrico Fermi estimated the power of the atomic bomb by dropping p….

RT @AnnieJacobsen: 🙏Guardian's @PD_Smith for NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO as best summer read for July. Nuclear War is insane. It will leave 5….

RT @slowberlin: Berlin premiere of Metropolis by Fritz Lang, Nollendorfplatz, 1927 #berlin

RT @PD_Smith: Jacobsen’s deeply researched book is a minute-by-minute account of how nuclear war could happen today. As gripping as any thr….

RT @Thievesbook: And as I have closed the door, here are some new fave raves and collections of books I really have enjoyed and rated with….

RT @PD_Smith: ‘The English civilian population is the least hysterical in the world. They can take an awful pounding and still keep on plan….

‘The English civilian population is the least hysterical in the world. They can take an awful pounding and still keep on planting lobelias.’. Raymond Chandler, in a letter written during the Battle of Britain.

RT @PD_Smith: Here are my two Guardian paperback picks for July!.Nuclear War, by Annie Jacobsen & Into the Clear Blue Sky, by Rob Jackson.….

Rob Jackson has a dream: to restore Earth’s atmosphere to pre-industrial greenhouse gas levels. In this important book, he makes a compelling case for methane removal & shows how change can and must happen in order to reduce global temperatures.

Jacobsen’s deeply researched book is a minute-by-minute account of how nuclear war could happen today. As gripping as any thriller, she shows the horrific reality of nuclear war and the threat it poses to the very survival of human life on our planet.

Here are my two Guardian paperback picks for July!.Nuclear War, by Annie Jacobsen & Into the Clear Blue Sky, by Rob Jackson. Both published by @PenguinUKBooks. Links to the reviews below. Enjoy! 🧵.#nonfiction #books📚.

RT @KarlreMarks: Life is the process of gradually increasing the font size on your phone until you realise it can't go any bigger and you j….

RT @PD_Smith: The Golden Sun. Shop sign from 18th-century Paris, in the Carnavalet Museum

RT @Ravilious1942: On #SussexDay it seems appropriate to have this one for a sunny Sussex Day - Tea at Furlongs, Eric Ravilious, 1939. http….

RT @fasc1nate: In 1953, swimmers at a Las Vegas motel observe the explosion of an atomic bomb.

RT @PD_Smith: Braw’s timely study charts the rise of globalisation from the optimism of the late 1980s to the current realism. A pacy & hum….

RT @PD_Smith: Just back from a visit to Paris, which is as beautiful and as good for the soul as ever. I've posted a few photographic impre….

RT @PD_Smith: Here are my two Guardian paperback picks for June!.Goodbye Globalization, by Elizabeth Braw & Immaculate Forms, by Helen King….

The historian of medicine, Helen King, tells the story of women’s bodies using four body parts. She draws on a lifetime of research on the subject & its implications for women. The result is a remarkably rich scientific and cultural survey. @ProfileBooks.

Braw’s timely study charts the rise of globalisation from the optimism of the late 1980s to the current realism. A pacy & human story, it weaves economics and history into a compelling geopolitical narrative of the last three decades. @YaleBooks .