"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 , She Wore Emerald Then, and Imagining the Future. She runs a monthly radio program podcast The Compulsive Reader Talks.
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A powerful and utterly engrossing work that looks beneath the bustle of history.
The healthier you are and the closer you follow advice like Francis', the less chance there is that you'll have to make that difficult choice.
Miéville just keeps getting better and better, destroying the notion of a fixed, formulaic genre, and creating work that opens every door.
Cloudstreet shines a light on who we are, lovingly, and with the kind of forgiving, all-inclusive care of a parent – it allows us to rejoice in ourselves.
Maisel is an expert who has devoted much of his professional life to addressing artistic anxiety and its many manifestations.
A book that will open doors of perception that won’t be closed again when you close the pages.
This is a rich, complex, and rewarding collection, especially the later poetry with all its mature insight.
An enjoyable read that combines exquisite writing with dramatic plotting and a powerful, feminist theme that works perfectly.
A seemingly simple novel that moves across that disturbing line we all walk between sanity and the edge of comfort.
An inspirational, powerfully written story of universal appeal.
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