"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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Though it’s only small, this book packs a powerful punch.
For those of us who like our fiction as rich, complex, and painful as possible, Ice is a fever of a novel.
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.
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.
History is undermined and recreated in a fictionalised form that tells a greater truth.
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.
The real draw is the story, which manages to walk the difficult line between morality and subversiveness, humor and intrigue.
The Manolo Blahnik of cookbooks: lavish and practical at the same time.
As in all good sci-fi, the plot is built on scientific principles that are absolutely believable, mirrored as they are to what we already understand.
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