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Pile by the Bed reviews The Other Side of Her by BM Carroll a domestic thriller partly based on her own experiences as an Irish backbackeroin Australia.

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Pile by the Bed reviews Dying to Know by Rae Cairns, a standalone thriller follow up to her Ned Kelly Award shortlisted debut The Good Mother.

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Pile by the Bed reviews Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh - a space opera with some audacious twists that will probably appeal more to YA readers.

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Pile by the Bed reviews Ada's Realm by Sharon Dodua Otoo, a historical fantasy exploring the lives of four women connected through history.

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Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune a joyful, quasi-fairtale, science fictional reimagining and inversion of Pinocchio

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Pile by the Bed reviews Naked Ambition by Robert Gott a comedy that skewers Australian values and views that revolves around a naked portrait of a politician

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Pile by the Bed reviews Thirsty Animals by Rachelle Atalla a day-after-tomorrow pre-apocalyptic clifi novel set in a drought affected Scotland

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Pile by the Bed reviews The Curator by Owen King a historical urban fantasy exploring the aftermath of a popular revolt set in an alternate Europe

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Pile by the Bed reviews Adrian Tchaikivsky's return to fantasy with an urban uprising novel City of Last Chances

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Pile by the Bed reviews City of Dreams by Don Winslow, historical organised crime follow up to City on Fire, moving the bulk of the action to Los Angeles.

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Pile by the Bed reviews Jennifer Saint's third retelling of Greek Mythology - Atalanta, adopted daughter of Artemis and member of the crew of the Argo.

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Pile by the Bed finds Dennis Lehane back in the familiar territory of South Boston in the 1970s in his excoriating new book Small Mercies. Recommended

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Pile by the Bed reviews Rachel Heng's second novel The Great Reclamation, an exploration of the modernisation of Singapore between World War 2 and the 1960s.

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Pile by the Bed reviews The Half Brother by Christine Keighery a horror-tinged psychological thriller that explores the issue of nature versus nurture.

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Pile by the Bed reviews The Double Bind by Lorraine Peck, organised crime follow up to her Ned Kelly Award winning debut The Second Son.

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Pile by the Bed reviews A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon an epic standalone fantasy set five hundred years before the events of The Priory of the Orange Tree.

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Pile by the Bed reviews The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee a critical but compassionate exploration of the complexities of modern India

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Pile by the Bed reviews Red Queen by Juan Gómez-Jurado, the first book in his Spanish thriller trilogy featuring the hyper-intelligent Antonia Scott and her dogged partner, former police officer Jon Gutiérrez

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Pile by the Bed reviews Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling a cli-fi, day after tomorrow cautionary tale based in a scarily realistic future.

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Pile by the Bed reviews The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older a Holmesian-style crime story set on Jupiter.

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Dying to Know by Rae Cairns
Crime , Review / 22/05/2023

Pile by the Bed reviews Dying to Know by Rae Cairns, a standalone thriller follow up to her Ned Kelly Award shortlisted debut The Good Mother.

Red Queen by Juan Gómez-Jurado
Crime , Review , Thriller / 03/04/2023

Pile by the Bed reviews Red Queen by Juan Gómez-Jurado, the first book in his Spanish thriller trilogy featuring the hyper-intelligent Antonia Scott and her dogged partner, former police officer Jon Gutiérrez