Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends What We Can Know by Ian McEwan, set many years after a climate disaster has remodelled the world, the book explores the current era and tackles issues of history, the power of literature and academia.
Pile by thg Bed reviews Katabasis by RF Kuang a fantasy/ campus satire in which two post graduate students travel to hell to find their thesis supervisor.
Pile By the Bed reviews Oxford Soju Club by Jinwoo Park a debut espionage novel set in Oxford that also considers what it means to be an expatriate Korean.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends Arborescence by Rhett Davis a mind bending piece of speculative fiction that imagines a world in which people start turning into trees.
Pile by the Bed reviews Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico (translated by Sophie Hughes) – a story which explores the lives of a couple of Italian expatriates living in Germany in the 2010s.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin – an insightful, effective novel that explores some aspects of the modern day Black experience in America.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends Salvage by Jennifer Mills a climate fiction novel that explores dark issues but puts a more optimistic spin on a possible future.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends Eden by Mark Brandi, a spare but rivetting follow up to his award winning debut Wimmera.
Pile by the Bed reviews Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata (trans by Ginny Tapley Takemori) – set in an alternative present in which intimacy has declined and all children are born through artifical insemination.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends Picks and Shovels by Cory Doctorow, which goes back to Martin Hench’s early days while deliveing another takedown of American capitalism and the tech industry,
Pile by the Bed revires Friends Helping Friends by Patrick Hoffman a dark crime caper novel in the vein of the Coen Brothers.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer a delightful, thematically rich crime novel that centres around the practice of the collection of rare coloured eggs.
Pile by the Bed reviews Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy a thematically rich climare fiction novel set on a remote island in the Antarctic Ocean.
Pile by the Bed reviews The Campers by Maryrose Cuskelly, an exploration of a current faultlines in Australia between the privileged haves and the increasing number of homeless have-nots.
Pile by the Bed reviews Gliff by Ali Smith, a dystopian tale that draws deeply from the traditions of the likes of Orwell and Huxley but delivers something original and unique.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommeds Casualties of Truth by Lauren Francis-Sharma – a thriller that draws on the damaging, contuing legacy of Apartheid.
Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends We Do Not Part the latest novel by South Korean Nobel Prize winner Han Kang, a poetic, elegiac novel dealing with the masssacre of citizens by authorities on Jeju Island in the 1940s.
Pile by the Bed reviews The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz which is, unsurprisingly a sequel to her take down of the publishing industry The Plot. The Sequel provides more satire of the publishing industry and in many ways is a more interesting book with a more fascinating protagonist.
Pile by the Bed reviews Model Home by Rivers Solomon, a novel that explores the experience of Black communities in America through the lens of horror.
Pile by the Bed reviews Lazarus Man by Richard Price, a nuaneed, multi-character exploration of a New York neighbourhood in the aftermath of a tragedy,
