Leigh Sales Leigh Sales i(A105438 works by)
Gender: Female
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Leigh Sales is a Walkley Award-winning journalist who anchors ABC TV's Lateline program. She has held senior positions at the network including national security correspondent and Washington correspondent. Her first book, Detainee 002 : The Case of David Hicks, won the 2007 George Munster Award for Independent Journalism and was shortlisted for the 2008 Victorian Premier's Literary Prize.

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y separately published work icon Any Ordinary Day Any Ordinary Day : Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life London : Hamish Hamilton , 2018 14402791 2018 single work autobiography

'In this wise and layered book, Leigh talks intimately with people who’ve faced the unimaginable, from terrorism to natural disaster to simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Expecting broken lives, she instead finds strength, hope, even humour. Leigh brilliantly condenses the cutting-edge research on the way the human brain processes fear and grief, and poses the questions we too often ignore out of awkwardness. Along the way, she offers an unguarded account of her own challenges and what she’s learned about coping with life’s unexpected blows.

'Warm, candid and empathetic, this book is about what happens when ordinary people, on ordinary days, are forced to suddenly find the resilience most of us don’t know we have.' (Publisher's website)

2019 winner Walkley Award Best Non-Fiction Book
2019 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian General Non-Fiction Book of the Year
2019 shortlisted Indie Awards Nonfiction
y separately published work icon Detainee 002 : The Case of David Hicks Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 2007 Z1384632 2007 single work biography

'In a remote American military base at Guantanamo Bay, 385 enemy combatants sit waiting for their day in court. Among them is David Hicks, who was detained for five years until the March 2007 hearing where he pleaded guilty to the charge of providing material support for terrorism.Detainee 002 reveals in unprecedented detail how an Australian citizen wound up in the War on Terror. Based on more than five years of reporting and dozens of interviews with insiders, Leigh Sales explains the intricacies of Hicks's case, from his capture in Afghanistan, to life in Guantanamo Bay, to the behind-the-scene establishment and workings of the military commissions. Sales' impeccable research takes us from top-secret negotiations at the White House and Pentagon to the domestic fallout Hicks's incarceration has had on his family, to the campaign that Major Michael Mori, the marine who becomes his greatest advocate, waged on his behalf.David Hicks's case is emblematic of some of the greatest challenges facing the world today: the rise of Islamic extremism, terrorism and the accountability of governments towards their citizens. It is a chilling reminder that, in a war with ever-changing rules and no end in sight, there are no limits.' (Source: Publisher's website)

2008 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Award for Non-Fiction
2007 shortlisted Walkley Award Best Non-Fiction Book
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