For many years, in a seemingly unstoppable fit of immature and indulgent vanity, around Christmas time (and yes, I admit, every birthday too) I’ve sent my family a list of potential presents.

This year I’ve decided to go public. I know what you’re thinking, and no, this is not designed to increase my Yuletide loot,  it’s simply that time of year when we revel in a spirit of goodwill to all consumerism, and I’d like to guide you in wise choices for the aging faux-boho hipster in your midst. Honest. To Betsy!

• A house-trained wombat
• Devotion, Patti Smith

• The Palestinian Table, Reem Kassis

• Silence…In the Age of Noise, Erling Kagge

• God: A Human History, Reza Aslan

• The Kinfolk Entrepreneur: Ideas for Meaningful Work, Nathan Williams

• Insomniac Dreams: Experiments With Time, Vladimir Nabokov

• Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist’s Memoir, Irvin D. Yalom

• First Person, Richard Flanagan

• Leather tools: Strap Cutter, Mallet , Flat knife, Edger , Edge Slicker, Awl, Bone Folder, Rivet Setter, Hole Punch and Oblong Punch
• Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World, Rutger Bregman

• The Gene: An Intimate History, Siddhartha Mukherjee

• A tartan dog collar for Bob
• Dust-to-digital’s Roots of American Music holiday bundle

• A bottle of Octomore

• A bottle of West Winds, The Sabre