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Author and financial adviser Lisa Barber.

Lisa Barber: books that changed me

Lisa Barber is a private wealth advisor and speaker who lives in Sydney. She chose a career in financial services after her father died in 1989 with no will or insurance. Her new book is A Woman's Guide to Wealth: What My Mother Needed To Know (available at lulu.com).

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A big win for a collection of essays about the desire to disappear

Lucy Treloar (left) and Fiona Wright, winners of the Kibble Awards for women's life writing, at the State Library of NSW ...

Sydney poet and essayist Fiona Wright has won the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award for women's life writing. In her book, Small Acts of Disappearance, Wright examines her own anorexia and the significance of hunger in a slender collection of essays that are both intimate and intellectual.