Writer Cynthia Banham with red hair and glasses smiling outdoors with greenery in the background.

Cynthia Banham

Writer

 “...Superbly written meditations [that] are at times heartbreaking, always fascinating, and ultimately uplifting.”

Dani Netherclift

  • Book cover for 'Mother Shadow' by Cynthia Banham featuring an illustration of a young person walking along a street with colourful buildings and dark sky.

    Mother Shadow

    While uncovering the series of tragic events that compelled an ancestor to abandon her baby, Cynthia Banham wonders if the compulsion to make sense of the woman’s act is linked to the overwhelming sense of inadequacy that haunts her.

  • Book cover titled 'A Certain Light' by Cynthia Banham with a beige textured background and torn paper edges.

    A Certain Light

    With great courage and empathy, Cynthia Banham asks the difficult questions about family, about survival, and fearlessly tells the stories that are never told.

  • Book cover titled 'Liberal Democracies and the Torture of their Citizens' by Cynthia Banham featuring a silhouette of a person's head alongside barbed wire on a red background.

    Liberal Democracies

    Australia, the UK and Canada are liberal democracies sharing similar political cultures and alliances with America; yet they behaved differently when their citizens, caught up in the War on Terror, were tortured.