Like Carmen Maria Machado, Thomas bends, twists, and transcends genre, but we get a dark, delicious taste. There is marvellous language on every page, and if the plot is a little pat, the whole makes for an unforgettable engrossment in community and estrangement. My favorite book of 2020 so far, hands down, is Catherine House, by Elisabeth Thomas. We argued over Zoom and Slack and email about the works that. Our editors took their usual debates online.

The small wheel-world is cognate with Giles’s native Orkney in relation to the mainland, and the book details their hard work and hard play: drink and dancing, love and belonging. In this case, its PWs best books of 2020.

They join “the thraan mixter-maxter o fock”, a “tossedawkward mix of people” who work the station, mining a strange substance called Light from a nearby gas giant. A Goodreads Employee Best Book 2020 Pick Golden Poppy Mirrors and Windows Award Winner Amazon Best Young Adult Book of the. Two characters arrive at the titular deep-space station: Astrid, returning from Mars to her childhood home and Darling, who is on the run.

If that sounds forbidding or abstruse, it shouldn’t: Deep Wheel Orcadia is a rattling read. Winner of the 2022 Arthur C Clarke award, this is a remarkable feat of language and imagination: a verse novel written in Orcadian Scots, with a lively and inventive southern English translation running along the bottom of the pages.

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