Sally Neighbour

Sally Neighbour is an acclaimed multiple award-winning journalist and author. Over her 30-year career, she has worked as a foreign correspondent based in Hong Kong and China, presenter of Lateline, executive producer of 7.30, and reporter and executive producer of Four Corners. She has also written extensively for The Australian newspaper and The Monthly magazine. Sally has won four Walkley awards for excellence, including the 2022 Walkley Award for outstanding contribution to journalism. Sally is the author of two previous books. In the Shadow of Swords: On the trail of terrorism from Afghanistan to Australia (2004), which documented the rise of the Indonesian Islamist group, Jemaah Islamiyah, and told the full story of how it carried out the 2002 Bali bombings, and which won the New South Wales Premier's History Prize; and The Mother of Mohammed (2009), which told the story of Australian woman Rabiah Hutchinson and her life within Osama bin Laden's feared Al Qaeda network. Sally currently works as a freelance writer and journalist. Slave Concubine Queen is her first work of historical fiction.