The Tall Man
Death and Life on Palm Island
$29.75
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
20 April 2027
Summary
The singular reckoning with injustice as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series
The story of a death, a policeman, an island and a country.
The Tall Man is the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher Hurley who chose to work in some of the toughest …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761626036 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761626035 |
| Author: | Chloe Hooper |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 20 April 2027 |
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Chloe Hooper
Chloe Hooper is the author of The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008), which won the Victorian, New South Wales, West Australian and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards. It also received the John Button Prize for Political Writing and a Ned Kelly Award for crime writing. Her other works include the novels A Child’s Book of True Crime and The Engagement.
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