Pile by the Bed reviews Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong, conclusion to her 1920s Shanghai set, Shakespeare inspired These Violent Delights.

Pile by the Bed reviews Devotion by Hannah Kent, a romance set against the story of the immigration of German religious communities to South Australia in the nineteenth century.

Pile by the Bed reviews The Last Woman in the World by Inga Simpson a post-apocalyptic tale that takes the recent experiences of the bushfires and pandemic in Australia as inspiration.

Pile by the Bed reviews The Fell in which Sarah Moss takes on the social impacts of the pandemic and associated lockdowns.

Pile by the Bed reviews Wild Place by Christian White - a dark, twisty descent into the suburbs when a teenager goes missing in the late 1980s.

Pile by the Bed reviews The Safe Place by LA Larkin - a page-turning thriller involving domestic violence, gaslighting and a serial arsonist with the tension fuelled by an encoaching megafire

Pile by the Bed reviews The Way It Is Now, the new stand alone novel by Australian master crime writer Garry Disher.

Pile by the Bed reviews Far From the Light of Heaven in which Tade Thompson brings his unique style to a spaceship-based locked room mystery.

Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends the final John Le Carré novel Silverview which shows once again why he was considered the master of the espionage novel.

Pile by the Bed reviews Case Study by Graham Macrae Burnet a layered exploration of self and identity set in in 1960s London.

Pile by the Bed reviews Making Nice by Ferdinand Mount a very British satire looking at modern politics and public relations.

Pile byt the Bed reviews A Good Winter by Gigi Fenster - "a derk descent into a troubled mind" and winner of the 2020 Michael Gifkins Prize.

Pile by the Bed reviews Two Sisters Detective Agency, the latest collaboration between James Paterson and Candice Fox and likely start to a new series.

Pile by the Bed reviews The Apollo Murders an alternate history techno-thriller debut by Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.

Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends Wild Abandon by Emily Bitto a thematically rich coming of age story set in New York and rural America in 2011.

Pile by the Bed reviews Five Minds a debut high concept crime novel by Guy Morpuss

Pile by the Bed reviews The Judge's List by John Grisham, sequel to his 2016 novel The Whistler featuring investigator Lacy Stoltz

Pile by the Bed reviews A Corruption of Blood by Ambrose Parry, the third book in the Raven and Fisher historical crime series based around a medical practice in Edinburgh in the 19th Century

Pile by the Bed reviews The Escapement by Lavie Tidhar a new wierd fantasy with Western styling.

Pile by the Bed reviews Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia a Mexican vampire novel that does new and interesting things with the genre.