Tag: fiction
member name: Magdalena Ball
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December 20, 2009 04:16 PM EST --
Small Poisons by Catherine Edmunds Circaidy Gregory Press £9.50, ISBN 978-1-906451-16-5, Nov 2009
There are fairies at the bottom of the garden…and that’s only the start. A . . .
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September 13, 2009 06:53 PM EDT --
What Came Between By Patrick Cullen Scribe ISBN: 9781921372889, paperback, Aug 2009, RRP: $27.95
There’s a delicate and quiet power in Patrick Cullen’s stories. As the title suggests, . . .
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September 12, 2007 10:39 PM EDT --
Reviewed by Magdalena Ball
The Road
By Cormac McCarthy
Picador
ISBN: 9780330447546 , June 2007, 256 pages, paperback, A$22.95
It’s probably fair to call The Road a perfect novel. . . .
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December 19, 2007 05:53 PM EST --
My Inflatable Friend
by Gerald Everett Jones
La Puerta
ISBN 9780979486616, paperback, April 2007, 15.99
Let me be honest here. This is not a genre I'd normally read. I had to be dragged, . . .
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May 13, 2009 03:12 AM EDT --
Talking Heads
By Alan Bennett
BBC Audio
6 Audio CD Set, rrp $59.95, 2008
Alan Bennett is something of an institution in Britain, known for the way in which he can encapsulate a world . . .
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March 09, 2009 07:19 PM EDT --
The Enchantress of Florence
By Salman Rushdie
Vintage
ISBN: 9780099421924
Paperback, Jan 2009 (new release), RRP $24.95aud
The Enchantress of Florence opens at dusk, with the arrival of . . .
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June 14, 2009 07:41 PM EDT --
Will You Love Me Tomorrow by Danny Gillan Discovered Authors ISBN-13: 978-1905108633, Dec 2008, Paperback
How could you not love a book that opens in the midst of a first person narrated suicide . . .
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November 13, 2008 11:43 PM EST --
Exit, Pursued by a Bee
by Geoff Nelder
Double Dragon Publishing
Paperback, July 2008, ISBN-13: 978-1-55404-594-5
Most of us experience a psychological disconnect between “time’s arrow”; . . .
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August 15, 2007 04:12 AM EDT --
The Book Thief
By Markus Zusak
Picador, $32.95
ISBN: 033036426X, September 2005, paperback, 492pgs
Markus Zusak's The Book Thief has one of the most original and striking narrators . . .
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December 23, 2008 08:21 PM EST --
Wanting
by Richard Flanagan
Knopf Australia
November 2008, hardcover, RRP $35.00, ISBN: 9781741666557, 256pp
One of the key objections I had to Richard Flanagan’s last novel, The Unknown . . .
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June 04, 2009 05:43 PM EDT --
Breath By Tim Winton Penguin 29 April 2009, ISBN: 9780143009580, RRP: $24.95, Paperback , 268 pages
One of the hallmarks of Tim Winton’s work is the way he seems to achieve a sparse poetic . . .
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June 24, 2009 07:32 PM EDT --
Sold By Brendan Gullifer Sleepers Publishing Paperback, 357 pages, ISBN: 9781740667340, April 2009, RRP: $24.95
In his launch speech for Sold , author Brendan Gullifer says that his book is about . . .
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September 04, 2009 02:00 AM EDT --
Why She Loves Him By Wendy James UWA Publishing May 2009, 240pp, PB, ISBN: 9781921401190
There’s something rather compulsive about the short story form. Perhaps it’s because you . . .
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October 22, 2007 08:45 PM EDT --
10 Steps to Creating Memorable Characters
A Writer’s Workbook
by Sue Viders, Lucynda Storey, Cher Gorman, Becky Martinez
Lone Eagle
Paperback: 176 pages, November . . .
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August 09, 2007 01:49 AM EDT --
Don’t get me wrong. There’s nothing wrong with polemics in literature. Some of the best, most important books are inherently political, and overtly polemical. I’m thinking . . .
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August 28, 2007 09:19 PM EDT --
Reviewed by Magdalena Ball
Another
by Joel Deane
Interactive Press
www.ipoz.biz/titles/another.htm
ISBN 1876819251, 2006 (second printing), 224pages, paperback, AU$27
Like its striking cover, . . .
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May 22, 2008 09:06 PM EDT --
Reviewed by Magdalena Ball
Tumbuktu
By Paul Auster
Faber
978-0-571-22909-3, Paperback, March 2008, 181pgs
For those used to the almost psychedelic complexity of Auster's novels, . . .
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April 03, 2009 06:46 PM EDT --
House of Meetings
by Martin Amis
Jonathan Cape
Hardcover, 256pages, $39.95rrp
Martin Amis’ prose is a distinctive combination of droll black humour mingled with near purple theatrics. It’s . . .
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July 28, 2009 06:15 PM EDT --
The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan Text Publishing 30 March 2009, Paperback , 304 pages, ISBN-13: 9781921520198, rrp$32.95aud
The Earth Hums in B Flat is one of those books that eases . . .
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January 16, 2008 05:00 PM EST --
Some of my earliest defining experiences involved the planetarium. Iwill never forget sitting in that big round auditorium and suddenlyexperiencing a sense of the universe as a whole in all its beautiful,magical . . .
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