"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
Magdalena Ball runs The Compulsive Reader. She is the author of the novels Black Cow and Sleep Before Evening, the poetry books Repulsion Thrust and Quark Soup, a nonfiction book The Art of Assessment, and, in collaboration with Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Deeper Into the Pond, Blooming Red, Cherished Pulse, She Wore Emerald Then, and Imagining the Future. She also runs a radio show, The Compulsive Reader Talks. Find out more about Magdalena at www.magdalenaball.com.
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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.
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.
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