"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
Magdalena Ball runs The Compulsive Reader. She is the author of Repulsion Thrust, Sleep Before Evening, The Art of Assessment, Quark Soup, and, in collaboration with Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Cherished Pulse and She Wore Emerald Then. She runs a monthly radio program podcast The Compulsive Reader Talks.
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Book Review: The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The novel touches on the whole range of human desires, aspirations, on literary pretension, hubris and self-immolation.
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Book Review: Vanishing Point by Felicity Plunkett
There's a heady femininity in Felicity Plunkett's Vanishing Point.
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Book Review: A Year of Cats and Dogs by Margaret Hawkins
Funny and spiritual in the most pragmatic sense – a satisfying, and pleasurable read.
Straddles a fine line between perception, the fantastic, and the mundane workings of a daily grind.
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Book Review: The Infinities by John Banville
This is the underlying celebration of the novel: the beauty of flawed humanity amidst the bodiless, bloodless gods.
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Book Review: ABC Delicious: Quick Smart Cook by Valli Little
This book lives up to its name, with 120 recipes that span the three meals of the day, including soups, desserts, low-fat treats.
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Book Review: It's Useful to Have A Duck by Isol
There is something rather special about this little book.
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Book Review: One Foot Wrong by Sofie Laguna
Despite its passion and intensity, the reading is fast, propelled by the sense of impending explosion that propels the narration.
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Book Review: under the gums' long shade by Beatriz Copello
A tender collection full of rich moments.
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Book Review: What Came Between by Patrick Cullen
A light-handed and tender depiction of a microcosm of life that illuminates the nature of humanity as a whole.
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