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 Tell Me Something True by Michael Robotham, his twentieth but first set in Australia – a rural crime novel with three memorable characters at its heart.
Pile by the Bed reviews Full Circle by Chris Hammer – an Australian crime thriller set in the world of high finance and moneyed dynsasties.
Pile by the Bed reviews The Only Way Out is Up by Django Wexler a progression fantasy set in a hierarchical city where magic-powered robots fight each other in tournaments.
Pile by the Bed reviews The Dragon Has Some Complaints by John Wiswell, a cosy fantasy about an injured three-headed dragon who is taken in and trained to help a beleaugered city fight a war.
Pile by the Bed reviews The Henchperson’s Guide to Unionizing by Marshall J Moore a cosy fantasy novel that focusses on the offsiders of a vampire, a witch and a mad scientist.
Pile by the Bed reviews The Wreck by Riley James a survival thriller that sees two people try to survive on a remote island in Bass Strait while also trying to solve a decades-old mystery.
Pile by the Bed reviews The Doubles by Jacob K Gallagher an action-packed thriller set in regional Australia in a version of our world influenced by magic.
Pile by the Bed reviews The Reckoning by Vikki Petraitis, third in her Antigone Pollard procedural series
Pile by the Bed reviews The Republic of Memory by Muhmad El Sayed, the first book in a science fiction series set on a generation ship called Safina, 200 years into its journey to a new planet.
Pile by the Bed reviews Taipei Story by Rebecca F Kuang a coming-of-age story about an American student who travels to Taiwan to participate in a Chinese language program.
Pile by the Bed reviews Transcription by Ben Lerner a small gem of a novel packed with ideas, resonance and commentary on the modern world.
Pile by the Bed reviews Eden Falls by Ajay Chowdhury a puzzle-based thriller which follows two women seeking to unlock a world-changing mystery while being chased across America by multiple antagonists.
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 Nothing Personal a suburban crime tale set in Perth revolving around a struggling young woman who comes into possession of a potentially life changing item that also brings her to the attention of crime gangs and corrupt cops.
Pile by the Bed reviews Gentle Things a heady mix of genres – a dark reimagining of 18th Century London with a speculative edge that deals with the documented practice of using human body parts to create medicines.
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 Dying Days by Anthony Byrt an historical epsionage novel set in complex city of Trieste in the closing stages of World War 2.
