Pile by the Bed reviews Our Noble Selves by Kate Atkinson a crime novel of sorts that is set in and around a weird but real even held in 1951 called the Festival of Britain. Recommended.
Pile by the Bed reviews London Station by David McCloskey, the latets in his espionage series featuring the irrepressible Artemis Proctor. London Station explores the relationship bewteen British and American spy agencies and what happens if it deteriorates. Recommended
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends A Violent Masterpiece by Jordan Harper a dark and excoriating but compulsive look at modern America.
Pile by the Bed reviews Little Spark by Jess Kidd a gothic steampunk fantasy set in Victorian times which follows a young woman with some extraordinary abilities to a remote estate to work with automata.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends Venus, Vanishing the debut novel ny art historian Rebecca Birrell which focusses on the life of a young, female Jewish artist in Berlin struggling to find her artistic voice during the rise of Nazism,
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends A Trade of Blood by Robert Jackson Bennett the third book in his excellent Shadows of the Leviathan series featuring investigators Ana Dolabra and Dinios Kol.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends Cold River by Margaret Hickey, the Australian rural crime fiction sequel to her award winning book The Creeper and featuring Senior Constable Sally White.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead the final book in his Harlem crime trilogy bringing his main character, fence Ray Carney into the 1980s.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends Shadow of Madness by DV Bishop, the sixth book in his always enjoyable and tense historical crime series set in Renaissance Italy and featuring Cesare Aldo.
Pile by the Bed reviews Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky a noir detective meets biopunk science fiction novel featuring a PI racoon who is one of many engineered animals that run future human cities.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends Rabbit Test and Other Stories by Samantha Mills, a collection of diverse speculative fiction short stories anchored around the multi-award winning title story.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends Palaces of the Crow by Ray Naylet the story of a group of children taking refuge in a Lithuanian forest during World War II and their relationship with the crows there.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends The Faith of Beasts by James SA Corey, the second book in The Captives War trilogy focussing on a small group of humans trapped in a giant alien war machine.
Pile by the Bed reviews The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee a science fiction novel that follows an aging highly skilled corporate samurai navigating her final job on a colony world.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends Son of Nobody by Yann Martel a retelling of the seige of Troy which resonates with the life of its translator.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends Pretenders to the Throne of God, the fourth book in Adrian Tchaikocsky’s always thought provoking and enjoyable Tyrant Philosophers fantasy series.
Pile by the Bed reviews Minbak by Ela Lee the story of three genrations of women who circile arounda long held secret but also a dark aspect of South Korean history.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends Finding the Bones by Natalie Conyer, featuriong Sydney detective Jackie Rose, who first appeared in Shadow City, investigating a cold case that comes too close to home.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends Nonesuch by Francis Spufford a rich and engaging historical fantasy set in London in the lead up to and during World War II.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan a compulsive, dark (but also sometimes darkly humorous) historical fantasy debut.
