Rosemary Sorensen, Author at Daily Review: Film, stage and music reviews, interviews and more.

All those end of year pronouncements about what a year it’s been, what’s been the biggest issues and who has …

In Praise of Andrew McGahan

Andrew McGahan’s first book, the disturbingly comic Praise, defined him as a Queensland writer, and that stuck. Even though he …

When we read true crime, we might think it’s about trying to work out why people commit murder, what leads …

When Nicholas Dattner closed his furniture business ten years ago, he admitted he had been “some kind of evangelist” for …

Stuart Kells is a rare kind of writer. He is able to tackle global economic power on one hand, and, …

The moment when Julie Collins realised a disused bacon factory on Eureka Street in Ballarat was going to be available …

Since Richard Flanagan won the Man Booker Prize in 2014 for The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Australia’s representation …

Suddenly, for a moment, everyone’s an expert on writers festivals; how they’re run, how they should be run, and what’s …

When an art gallery is busy, full of young people, noisy, active and with a huge range of things to …

Excellent! Manchester Art Gallery has taken down the excruciatingly gorgeous and silly Hylas and the Nymphs painting by pre-Raphaelite artist …