"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: The Pill - Are You Sure It’s For You? by Jane Bennett and Alexandra Pope
If you’re a woman and you’re on the Pill, this is a book you should read.
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Book Review: Postcards from the Asylum by Karen Knight
It’s intense, sometimes terrifying, and sometimes exuberant, but never does the work become despairing.
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Book Review: Magisterium by Joel Deane
This is poetry written at the limits of what our language can do; without sacrificing accessibility.
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Book Review: Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
We can design our lives and products around the notion of nourishment – from the way we live to how we design and produce goods.
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Book Review: The Write Advice - Inspirations, Observations and Affirmations from Classic and Contemporary Writers by Michael Meanwell
Affirm that you can write well often enough and it becomes embedded in your subconscious mind, and ultimately a reality.
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Book Review: The Steele Diaries by Wendy James
A charming and accomplished novel woven between country NSW, boarding school, Sydney in the 1960s, Boolah in the 1980s, and the artworld of the 1930s.
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Book Review: Good Americans Go To Paris When They Die by Howard Waldman
There’s a spare loveliness to Waldman’s prose, infused as it is with loneliness, humour, and a deep sense of irony in the cyclical prison of our nostalgia for the past.
A fresh and easy take on Indian cuisine.
What starts off as a coming-of-age story - mingled with travelogue and Nat Geo-styled adventure tale - becomes a life or death struggle...
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Book Review: God of Speed by Luke Davies
A remarkable fusion of prose and poetry, well worth reading regardless of whether or not the subject matter is of interest to you.
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