Other books I enjoyed this past month: THE DEEP DARK by Molly Knox Ostertag THE QUIET INVASION and PLAYING GOD by Sarah Zettel ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED by Miep Gies FULL SHIFT by Jennifer Dugan and Kit Seaton MAGIC ENUFF by Tara M. Stringfellow INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SPACE by Emily Austin.

And finally, the major awards! BEST MUSIC Riki Lindholme: Dead Inside BEST PLAY Cyrano BEST COMEDY Elf Lyons: Horses BEST DANCE Palingenesis BEST MUSICAL Kafka’s Metamorphosis: The Musical! With Puppets! BEST CIRCUS PERFORMANCE N. Ormes

BEST DANCE RESEMBLING THE LIFECYCLE OF AN ALIEN CREATURE Palingenesis BEST DYSTOPIA Recirquel: Paradisum

BEST TOILET PAPER SET Luke Rollason, Luke Rollason, Let Down Your Hair BEST POLE DANCING Jay Lafferty: Bahookie BEST SHIRT DANCING Lost Connection BEST INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF GENDER ROLES N. Ormes

BEST HULA HOOPING OF A CYR WHEEL IIIII – About the Art of Letting Go BEST PLAY PERFORMED ENTIRELY IN ITALIAN BY GUMMY BEARS ON A SMALL TABLE The Gummy Bears’ Great War MOST CONFLICTED PERFORMER Hannah Gadsby: Woof

BEST NUDITY (FULL OR PARTIAL) N. Ormes BEST WTF WAS THAT The Passion of Andrea 2 BEST JUGGLING Rollercoaster LONGEST ARMS Elf Lyons: Horses BEST DEAD CHARACTERS Ghost Light: Between Fall and Flight

Other fantastic books from July: MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS by Kelly Link DOPPELGANGER by Naomi Klein THE MANY FACES OF ISTA FLIT by Clare Harlow THE PRACTICE, THE HORIZON, AND THE CHAIN by Sofia Samatar HOUSE OF ODYSSEUS by Claire North THE HEARING TRUMPET by Leonora Carrington.

Other great books from June: THE YEARS by Annie Ernaux A SWORD OF BRONZE AND ASHES by Anna Spark Smith THE POWER AND THE GLORY by Graham Greene THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES by Malka Older DRIVE YOUR PLOUGH OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD by Olga Tokarczuk GORGEOUS GRUESOME FACES by Linda Cheng

As well as: VERA by Elizabeth von Armin THE LIES AMONG US by Sarah Beth Durst ONE DAY by David Nicholls THE QUIET AND THE LOUD by Helena Fox JACK THE GIANT KILLER by Charles de Lint TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW by Gabrielle Zevin RED SIDE STORY by Jasper Fforde

Other great reads from this month were: HIS MASTER’S VOICE by Stanislaw Lem NATURAL BEAUTY by Ling Ling Huang REDEMPTION’S BLADE by Adrian Tchaikovsky TERRIBLE WORLDS: REVOLUTIONS by Adrian Tchaikovsky THE PAINTED VEIL by W. Somerset Maugham TITANIUM NOIR by Nick Harkaway