Fiction
Do You Love Me Or What?
A collection of short stories about love (2017)
Simon & Schuster Australia | 256 pages | ISBN 9781925533286 | March 2017
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The Oldest Song in the World
4th Estate Australian fiction
We see this world through the eyes of Kate, a thirty-something, white, student linguist who has struggled for a sense of her own identity her entire life because of the circumstances and the forceful and beguiling personalities imposed upon her as a young girl. She is an outsider searching for the Aboriginal woman who can reveal to her the oldest song in the world.
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Painted Woman
Hudson 1989 -Allen and Unwin 1990, Random House 1999
Editions Phebus (in French) 2007 translated by Marie-Odile Fortier Masek
“Dazzling and disturbing…deliciously persuasive…emotionally dangerous.” Australian Book Review.
“An exquisitely intense book… dazzlingly conveyed…such robust, unpitying and honest writing about women that it becomes writing for everyone.”
Thomas Keneally (Schindler’s Ark)
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Leaning Towards Infinity
1996 – Random House
Also Womens Press 2003
“What a glorious, nourishing, tumultuous novel.” Fay Weldon
“For the Australian book of the century I would nominate….Sue Woolfe’s “Leaning Towards Infinity” for its luminous melding of style and subject matter.”
Jack Dann, Australian Style 1999
Radio interview with Phillip Adam here.
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The Secret Cure
Picador 2003
Also UWA press 2008
“Captivating with its intimations of sadness and profound insights, it seems to me that Woolfe has painted a picture of the tragic human condition of never quite fitting in to our tiny, pitiable worlds.” Courier Mail.
An unusual novel which requires the reader to simply surrender to its extraordinary beauty. Woolfe successfully combines a complex heart-wrenching love story with explorations into Asperger’s syndrome, autism, science, genetics, psychology, the human condition and the very nature of love.”
Book Tweep – Ann Somerville
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Non-fiction
Making Stories
How Ten Australian Novels Were Written
by Kate Grenville and Sue Woolfe
Publisher: Allen and Unwin, 2001
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The Mystery of the Cleaning Lady
A Writer Looks at Obsession, Creativity and Neuroscience
Publisher: University of Western Australia Press, 2007
ISBN: 192069496X
Woolfe sleuthes her way through neuroscience and autobiography to produce this revelatory must-have for readers and writers as well as anyone interested in what it means to be creative.
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BOOKS AND STORIES PUBLISHED
FICTION:
Painted Woman (1989 Hudson later republished by four publishers)
Leaning Towards Infinity (Random 1996)
Wild Minds (Random 1998)
The Secret Cure (Pan Macmillan 2003, re-published by UWA Press)
The Oldest Song in the World (2012) Harper Collins
Do You Love ME or Not? (2016)Simon & Schuster
SHORT STORIES IN COLLECTIONS:
Women Love Sex (Random)
A Country Too Far
Dogs
SHORT STORIES IN NEWSPAPERS:
Six in THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD early 2000s
SCHOLARLY
Making Stories _ with Kate Grenville (Allen and Unwin)
The Mystery of the Cleaning Lady: a Writer Looks at Neuroscience and Creativity)
Rogues in
The Puzzle of the Muse in Text Journal
WORKS PERFORMED
My adaptation of Leaning Towards Infinity, performed at the New York Womens’ Workshop, 1998 and 1999 at The Ensemble, Sydney.
Also produced on ABC Radio, for which it won a prize.
My adaptation of Painted Woman, performed at The belvoir Downstairs, Sydney,1992 and at La Boîte, Brisbane, 1994.
Maestro’s Company, (Episode) TV, for which I won an AWGIE.
Upcoming: The opera of The Secret Cure, with composer Wendy Suiter.