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Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Do You Love Me Or What?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A collection of short stories about love (2017)<\/p>\n

Simon & Schuster Australia | 256 pages | ISBN 9781925533286 | March 2017
\nList Price
\nAU$ 29.99
\nNZ$ 35.00<\/p>\n

Read more about Do You Love Me Or What? <\/em><\/strong>here<\/a><\/p>\n

eBook details<\/a>
\nBuy from Booktopia<\/a>
\nBuy from Angus & Robertson<\/a>
\nBuy from QBD<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"The Oldest Song in the World<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

4th Estate Australian fiction<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Read more about The Oldest Song in the World <\/em><\/strong>here<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"Painted Woman<\/em><\/strong>
\nHudson 1989 -Allen and Unwin 1990, Random House 1999<\/p>\n

Editions Phebus (in French) 2007 translated by Marie-Odile Fortier Masek
\n\u201cDazzling and disturbing\u2026deliciously persuasive\u2026emotionally dangerous.\u201d Australian Book Review.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn exquisitely intense book\u2026 dazzlingly conveyed\u2026such robust, unpitying and honest writing about women that it becomes writing for everyone.\u201d
\nThomas Keneally (Schindler\u2019s Ark<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Read more about Painted Woman<\/em><\/strong> here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Leaning Towards Infinity<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1996 \u2013 Random House<\/p>\n

Also Womens Press 2003
\n“What a glorious, nourishing, tumultuous novel.” Fay Weldon<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the Australian book of the century I would nominate\u2026.Sue Woolfe\u2019s \u201cLeaning Towards Infinity\u201d for its luminous melding of style and subject matter.\u201d
\nJack Dann, Australian Style 1999<\/p>\n

Radio interview with Phillip Adam here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read more about Leaning Towards Infinity<\/em><\/strong> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Secret Cure<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Picador 2003<\/p>\n

Also UWA press 2008<\/p>\n

\u201cCaptivating 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.\u201d Courier Mail.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s syndrome, autism, science, genetics, psychology, the human condition and the very nature of love.\u201d
\nBook Tweep \u2013 Ann Somerville<\/p>\n

Read more about The Secret Cure<\/em> <\/strong>here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Non-fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Making Stories<\/em><\/strong>
\nHow Ten Australian Novels Were Written
\nby Kate Grenville and Sue Woolfe
\nPublisher: Allen and Unwin, 2001<\/p>\n

Read more about Making Stories<\/em><\/strong> here<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"The Mystery of the Cleaning Lady<\/em><\/strong>
\nA Writer Looks at Obsession, Creativity and Neuroscience
\nPublisher: University of Western Australia Press, 2007<\/p>\n

ISBN: 192069496X
\nWoolfe 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.<\/p>\n

Read more about The Mystery of the Cleaning Lady <\/em><\/strong>here<\/a><\/p>\n

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BOOKS AND STORIES PUBLISHED<\/strong><\/p>\n

FICTION:
\nPainted Woman (1989 Hudson later republished by four publishers)
\nLeaning Towards Infinity (Random 1996)
\nWild Minds (Random 1998)
\nThe Secret Cure (Pan Macmillan 2003, re-published by UWA Press)
\nThe Oldest Song in the World (2012) Harper Collins
\nDo You Love ME or Not? (2016)Simon & Schuster<\/p>\n

SHORT STORIES IN COLLECTIONS:
\nWomen Love Sex (Random)
\nA Country Too Far
\nDogs<\/p>\n

SHORT STORIES IN NEWSPAPERS:
\nSix in THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD early 2000s<\/p>\n

SCHOLARLY
\nMaking Stories _ with Kate Grenville (Allen and Unwin)
\nThe Mystery of the Cleaning Lady: a Writer Looks at Neuroscience and Creativity)
\nRogues in
\nThe Puzzle of the Muse in Text Journal<\/p>\n

WORKS PERFORMED<\/p>\n

My adaptation of Leaning Towards Infinity<\/em>, performed at the New York Womens’ Workshop, 1998 and 1999 at The Ensemble, Sydney.
\nAlso produced on ABC Radio, for which it won a prize.<\/p>\n

My adaptation of Painted Woman<\/em>, performed at The belvoir Downstairs, Sydney,1992 and at La Bo\u00eete, Brisbane, 1994.<\/p>\n

Maestro’s Company<\/em>, (Episode) TV, for which I won an AWGIE.<\/p>\n

Upcoming: The opera of The Secret Cur<\/em>e, with composer Wendy Suiter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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