diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 8429289..0a8f10e 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: azkit
 Title: Azure storage authentication toolkit
-Version: 0.2.1
+Version: 0.2.2
 Authors@R:
     c(person(
         "Fran", "Barton",
diff --git a/R/read_azure_table.R b/R/read_azure_table.R
index 0782dcb..b4b92f0 100644
--- a/R/read_azure_table.R
+++ b/R/read_azure_table.R
@@ -7,12 +7,19 @@
 #'  the default, the function will look instead for a value stored in the
 #'  environment variable "AZ_TABLE_EP"
 #' @param ... parameters to be passed through to [get_auth_token]
+#' @inheritParams get_container
 #' @returns A tibble
 #' @export
-read_azure_table <- function(table_name = NULL, table_endpoint = NULL, ...) {
+read_azure_table <- function(
+  table_name = NULL,
+  table_endpoint = NULL,
+  token = NULL,
+  ...
+) {
   table_name <- table_name %||% check_envvar("AZ_TABLE_NAME")
   table_ep <- table_endpoint %||% check_envvar("AZ_TABLE_EP")
-  access_token <- get_auth_token(...) |>
+  token <- token %||% get_auth_token(...)
+  access_token <- token |>
     purrr::pluck("credentials", "access_token")
   headers <- list("2025-11-05", "application/json;odata=nometadata") |>
     purrr::set_names(c("x-ms-version", "Accept"))
@@ -30,3 +37,4 @@ read_azure_table <- function(table_name = NULL, table_endpoint = NULL, ...) {
     purrr::map(tibble::as_tibble) |>
     purrr::list_rbind()
 }
+
diff --git a/man/read_azure_table.Rd b/man/read_azure_table.Rd
index 07c877b..0dc2010 100644
--- a/man/read_azure_table.Rd
+++ b/man/read_azure_table.Rd
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 \alias{read_azure_table}
 \title{Read in data from an Azure table}
 \usage{
-read_azure_table(table_name = NULL, table_endpoint = NULL, ...)
+read_azure_table(table_name = NULL, table_endpoint = NULL, token = NULL, ...)
 }
 \arguments{
 \item{table_name}{name of the table to be read. If left as \code{NULL},
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ environment variable "AZ_TABLE_NAME"}
 the default, the function will look instead for a value stored in the
 environment variable "AZ_TABLE_EP"}
 
+\item{token}{An Azure authentication token. If left as \code{NULL}, a token
+returned by \link{get_auth_token} will be used}
+
 \item{...}{parameters to be passed through to \link{get_auth_token}}
 }
 \value{