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2018: A Year in Books

We’ve been looking back on some of our favourite books published by our speakers in 2018 – from the personal to the political, there’s something for everyone on this list. How many have you read?

Always Another County (Text), Sisonke Msimang
Happy Never After (Scribe), Jill Stark
The Motherhood (Penguin), Jamila Rizvi
Eggshell Skull (Allen & Unwin), Bri Lee
Boys Will Be Boys (Allen & Unwin), Clementine Ford
The Football Solution (Penguin), George Megalogenis
No Country Woman (Hachette), Zoya Patel
Ditch The Dead Weight (Murdoch), Mike Rolls

Profiles:

Bri Lee
Bri Lee is a Sydney-based author, academic, and activist. As an author, Bri published a multi-award-winning memoir, Eggshell Skull,
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Private: Clementine Ford
Clementine Ford is a Melbourne based writer, speaker and feminist thinker. She is the author of two books, Fight
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George Megalogenis
George Megalogenis is one of Australia’s leading political and economic thinkers. He is an author and journalist with four
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Private: Jamila Rizvi
Jamila Rizvi is an author, presenter and political commentator. She is Editor-at-Large for the Nine Network’s Future Women platform and hosts
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Jill Stark
With a passion for equality, social justice and mental health, Jill Stark is fascinated by the complexity of the
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Mike Rolls
For Mike Rolls, adversity is a part of life, it’s not a question of if you will face challenges,
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Sisonke Msimang
Sisonke Msimang is the author of Always Another Country: A memoir of Exile and Home (Text, 2018). She is
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Zoya Patel
Zoya Patel is the award-winning author of No Country Woman, a memoir of race, religion and feminism, and Once
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