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 light-handed and tender depiction of a microcosm of life that illuminates the nature of humanity as a whole.
A powerful collection of stories that manages to toe the line between postmodern and classic.
Still funny after all these years.
A great, easy cookbook for the time-challenged grownup.
A book to enrich your life, at least while you’ve still got it.
A lovely, original and imaginative debut novel.
A flawed tale that is otherwise morally sound and uplifting.
A nice antidote to the sweetness of most children’s picture books.
A collection that could provide a good source of motivation for many writers.
So well written and insightful is this book, that verse now seems the most natural and obvious form for biography.
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