"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
Magdalena Ball runs The Compulsive Reader. She is the author of 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: Ambulances & Dreamers by Bel Schenk
The innate music and obvious buzz of modern life flows through these poems like electricity.
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Book Review: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Far more than a science book: funny, engaging, accessible and seminal.
phobiaphobia touches on the full spectrum of human frailty.
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Book Review: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, illustrated by Michel Streich
Though it’s only small, this book packs a powerful punch.
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Book Revew: Ice by Louis Nowra
For those of us who like our fiction as rich, complex, and painful as possible, Ice is a fever of a novel.
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Book Review: Three of the Best - The Modern Woman's Guide to Everything by Candace Lewis & Margaret O'Sullivan
f you know someone who loves magazines, this is the perfect gift, as it’s more portable, and more pithy, and easier to refer to.
As a portrait of a post-WWI veteran, cricket at its most exciting period in Australia, and 1920’s Sydney, Magellenica is a lovely, evocative book.
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Book Review: Growing Great Boys by Ian Grant and Growing Great Girls by Ian and Mary Grant
For parents of boys and girls, the two books together form a terrific bible of parenting that will be referred to and re-used again and again.
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Book Review: Wanting by Richard Flanagan
History is undermined and recreated in a fictionalised form that tells a greater truth.
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Book Review: One Pot French - More Than 100 Easy, Authentic Recipes by Jean-Pierre Challet
A nice offering for the beginning or intermediate cook looking to take on the world of French cuisine in a non-pretentious, easy to learn form.
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