Welcome to a very special episode of Booksmart! This week, we invited athlete and equal pay advocate Lucy Small to interview Chloe Dalton about her new book Girls Don't Play Sport. Girls Don't Play Sport is a fierce manifesto for supporting female athletes at all levels, exploring how we got to this point, and where we need to go next to embrace the untapped potential of women's sport. Chloe is one of Australia's few triple sport elite athletes, and is also the Founder of the [female] athlete project - the fastest growing women's sport platform in the country (just casually).

We really hope you enjoy this chat - particularly in light of the Matildas absolutely killing it this week in the Olympic qualifiers! 

For this week's Booksmart chat, Phoebe got to sit down with the brilliant Shankari Chandran to discuss her latest book Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (that casually won the Miles Franklin Literary Award....!).

Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens is a moving book about family and memory, community and race, but is ultimately a love letter to storytelling and how our stories shape who we are.

A note to listeners: this episode was recorded ahead of the Australian Indigenous Voice referendum. 

Introducing our first ever episode of Booksmart: a podcast for people who see books and storytelling as the keys to unlocking the world around us. It’s a first step into the Big Stuff (social issues) that define, confuse and fascinate us.

We thought it was fitting to kick off with our very own Editor-in-Chief Hannah Diviney - and unpack her new memoir I'll Let Myself In.  Hannah's memoir is a defiant coming of age story about a young woman coming to terms with all that she is, the good, the bad and the ugly.

Hannah sat down with Missing Perspectives team member Tash to talk about why she wrote the book, what it means to be a young woman with cerebral palsy, and finding her voice. 

We've curated our ultimate reading list at Booktopia - so be sure to check it out: https://www.booktopia.com.au/missing-perspectives/promo4122.html