Chloe Hooper - The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
Chloe Hooper won a Walkley Award for her writing on the inquest into the death of Cameron Doomadgee, published in The Monthly and internationally. Her first novel, A Child's Book of True Crime, was critically acclaimed around the world. She lives in Melbourne.
Chloe Hooper
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island
The Tall Manis the story of the death of Cameron Doomadgee, who one morning swore at a policeman and forty-five minutes later lay dead in a watch house cell. The book tells the full story of the subsequent trial and its repercussions through northen Australia. In the tradition of In Cold Blood, she follows Hurley's trail to some of the hard towns of the Gulf, uncovering the true story behind the trial. The Tall Manoffers a brilliant insight into the clash of two worlds – and a haunting moral puzzle that no reader will forget.
'The Tall Man follows in the tradition of classic non - fiction novels like Truman Capote's In Cold Blood as Hooper brings lyrical power to actual events. The result is a real life Heart of Darkness in the Australian badlands.' Time Out, Sydney
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island is published by Penguin
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