"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 memoir-styled fiction with a strong ring of reality.
Deeply original, powerfully moving, and hugely satisfying.
Droll black humour mingled with near purple theatrics.
A sad novel which hints at the uncertainty in all of our posturing.
A story about the story: a metafiction that looks at the line between invention and reality and crosses it.
There is always some kind of trouble involved which is gotten through by a combination of luck, cunning, and slapstick.
The whole story is presented in a way that calls to mind the novel's overall timelessness.
The innate music and obvious buzz of modern life flows through these poems like electricity.
Far more than a science book: funny, engaging, accessible and seminal.
phobiaphobia touches on the full spectrum of human frailty.
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