Pile by the Bed reviews The Many by Sylvain Neuvel a positive spin on the concept of a hive mind.

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 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 The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar a gorgeously written novella drawing on a range of fairytale traditions.

Pile by the Bed reviews Cold Truth by Ashley Kalagian Blunt a page-turning icy cold thechno-thriller set in Winnipeg in the depths of winter.

Pile by the Bed reviews The Samurai of the Red Carnation by Denis Thériault (translated by Louise Rogers Lalaurie), a historical drama and impossible love story set in feudal Japan that focuses on poetry and song as opposed to battles and sword play.

Pile by the Bed reviews The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, historical fiction centred on a young Mexican ingenue set during the waning years of the golden age of Hollywood.

Pile by the Bed reviews River Mumma by Zalika Reid-Benta a coming-of-age urban fantasy set in Toronto but drawing on Jamaican cosmology.

Pile by the Bed reviews And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliot a debut novel centering around a Mohawk woman dealing with motherhood and life away from her cultural support system.

Pile by the Bed reviews The Death I Gave Him by Em X Lui a science fiction, locked room retelling of Hamlet complete with AI, experimental drugs and surveillance.

Pile by the Bed reviews For the First Time, Again, the final book in Take Them to the Stars, Sylvain Neuvel’s science fiction series that reimagines the second half of the Twentieth Century and in particular the space race.

Pile by the Bed reviews Flight from the Ages and other stories by Derek Kunsken, a series of short stories mainly set in Kumsken’s ever expanding universe of his already connected Qauntuim Evolution and Venus Ascendant series.

Pile by the Bed reviews Bad Cree by Jessica Johns an Indigenous horror story that explores issues of resilience in the face of the impacts of colonisation, exploitation and cultural loss.

Pile by the Bed reviews Ordinary Monsters (The Talents #1) by JM Miro – a tense Victorian-era fantasy involving children with powers and an existential threat to the world.

Pile by the Bed reviews Until the Last of Me by Sylvain Neuvel, second in his shadow history meets science fiction Take Them to the Stars trilogy

Pile by the Bed reviews The Quantum War, the third of four books planned in Derek Künsken’s heist-fuelled science fiction Quantum Evolution 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 A History of What Comes Next, the first in a new series by Sylvain Neuvel which imagines an alien influence behind the space race.

Pile by the Bed reviews Reproduction the first novel by Canadian poet Ian Williams which explores human relationships and the intersect between biological and found families.

Pile by the Bed reviews Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia which true to its title is a gothic horror thriller set in the mountains of Mexico in the early 1950s.