On The Couch with Cynthia Banham
Interview with The Justinian
Cynthia Banham is the author of three non-fiction books. Liberal Democracies and the Torture of their Citizens was based on her PhD. A Certain Light: A Memoir of Family, Loss and Hope, was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Her most recent book is Mother Shadow: A Meditation on Maternal Inheritance, published by Upswell.
Previously, she spent a decade working as a journalist in the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery in Canberra, where she was foreign affairs and defence correspondent.
Before that, in the 1990s, she worked as a solicitor at Allens (as it is now known) and Hunt & Hunt. She is currently working on a historical novel.
