Pile by the Bed reviews The End of Romance by Maria Takolander which follows a mother and son as they navigate a bleak view of the future.

Pile by the Bed reviews Contrapposto by Dave Eggers a sprawling American novel about art and artists that follows two characters from childhood to old age.

Pile by the Bed reviews Department of the Vanishing by Johanna Bell a novel made up of poetry, photographs, notes and other paraphernalia telling the story of a woman who works for a government department that catalogues extinction.

Pile by the Bed reviews Prestige Drama by Séamus O’Reilly a tragi-comic story told by a large range of local characters centred around the production of a TV series in Derry based on an event during The Troubles.

Pile by the Bed reviews At Sea by YM Abdel-Magied a tense thriller that follows a woman sent to try and investigate issues on board a troubled oil rig.

Pile by the Bed reviews Pedro the Vast by Simón López Trujillo a speculative novel from Chile in which a man forms a connection with sentient mushrooms.

Pile by the Bed reviews Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami a coming of age story about a young woman trying to forge her own life in Tokyo in the 1990s.

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 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 Art on Fire by Yun Ko-eun (translated by Lizzie Beuhler) a dark satire on the art world that follows a Korean artist on a surreal trip to take up a residency an American art foundation.

Pile by the Bed reviews Rebel English Academy by Mohammed Hanif, a darkly satirical exploration of Pakistan under authoritarian rule in the late 1970s

Pile by the Bed reviews Spies and Other Gods by James Wolff, an engaing espionage novel that enjoyably illuminates some of the shady practices f spycraft.

Pile by the Bed reviews Eradication by Joanthan Miles a dark environmental allegory about a man sent to rid an island of its feral goat population.

Pile by the Bed reviews Vigil by George Saunders a return to the gohstly world of the bardo to explore the life of an oil tycoon and the legacy of climate change.

Pile by the Bed reviews The Undead by Svetlana Satchkova set in Russia and revolving around the life of a filmmaker it is part farce, part political commentary, part reflection on the life of an artist in an authoritarian regime and then part Kafka.

Pile by the Bed reviews The Expansion Project by Ben Pester – a surreal exploration of modern corporate culture..

Pile by the Bed reviews Dwelling a debut novel by Emily Hunt Kivel which uses absurdism and a fairy tale sensibility to tackle the current housing crisis.

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.