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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