Rosemary Sorensen

Rosemary Sorensen is director of Bendigo Writers Festival and one of the judges of the 2015 and 2016 National Biography Award.

Works By Rosemary Sorensen

Crossing The Line: Position Doubtful by Kim Mahood
To cross a line can be to start something – a race or a journey – or to breach a boundary. It can also mark a disruption or a transgression. In her new memoir, Position Doubtful, Kim Mahood crosses many lines. She broaches topics that are fraught
27 Oct. 2016
Listen to the Sirens: The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
‘Charlotte Wood’s fifth novel The Natural Way of Things is a virtuoso performance, plotted deftly through a minefield of potential traps, weighted with allegory yet swift and sure in its narrative advance. In Wood’s fictional imagining, the mechan...
2 Oct. 2015
The Dread of Bad Blood: Lost Relations by Graeme Davison
‘It’s as though a well-dressed man has taken off his hat to pat his hair and found a bald spot he then delights in scratching. Never overplayed, and modestly developed, the interplay between the stories of the past and the historian’s self-scrutin...
15 Sept. 2015
You Can't Kill Myths: The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia by Don Watson
This is a book every Australian should read. The kind of people we are, the kind of nation this is, the big myths and the way they have been forged – these are the stones with which Watson’s builds his book.
14 Nov. 2014
The novelist’s revenge: Joyful by Robert Hillman
Women lust and die in Robert Hillman’s Joyful, but not, it would appear, in the classic realist novel manner. Where a heroine such as Emma Bovary yearns, is seduced, and falls from grace, Joyful offers a twenty-first century update on that scenari...
20 June. 2014
An island of sanity: Gotland by Fiona Capp
Gotland is a memoir-like novel that shuttles between Melbourne in July and October 2010, and the Swedish island of Gotland in September of that year, where Esther’s sick sister, Rosalind, witnesses Esther’s life-changing and possibly life-saving e...
20 Aug. 2013