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A Child's Book of True Crime by Chloe Hooper
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Quietly, I closed the classroom door. I bent to lock it, and a shudder ran through me. In the door's olive paintwork, two words were now scratched in a maniac's hand: I KNOW.' In a small town near Port Arthur in Tasmania in the mid-nineties, Kate Byrne is having an affair with the father of her most gi ...Show more
Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
From the best-selling author of The Tall Man and The Arsonist, a personal tale about death, life and the enchantment of stories. With illustrations by Anna Walker. Let me tell you a story... When Chloe Hooper's partner is diagnosed with a rare and aggressive illness, she has to find a way to tell their ...Show more
Bedtime Story by Chloe Hooper
$25.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Shortlisted for the 2023 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction Longlisted for the 2023 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award From the best-selling author of The Tall Man and The Arsonist, a personal tale about death, life and the enchantment of stories. With illustrations by Anna Wal ...Show more
Bedtime Story (H/B Illustrated) by Chloe Hooper
$45.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Already acclaimed as a modern classic, Chloe Hooper's memoir of talking with her children about mortality is beautifully illustrated by the award-winning Anna Walker; this hardback, colour gift edition creates an irresistible object out of this magical work. By the bestselling author of The Tall Man an ...Show more
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper
$23.00 AUD
Category: History
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as fire ...Show more
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire - Indie Non-Fiction Winner 2019 by Chloe Hooper
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as fire ...Show more
The Engagement by Chloe Hooper
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Liese Campbell has an engagement for the weekend: to stay with Alexander Colquhoun, the well-mannered heir of a pastoral dynasty, at his property in western Victoria. Liese, an English architect in flight from the financial crisis, now works at her uncle's real-estate business in Melbourne. Alexander ...Show more
The Engagement by Chloe Hooper
$20.00 AUD
Category: Australian
From the author of the highly acclaimed A Child's Book of True Crime, "a brilliant, seductive, and unnerving first novel of sexual betrayal" (O, The Oprah Magazine), comes a dazzling, intense, and erotic second novel set in an isolated mansion in the country. Liese Campbell has an engagement for the ...Show more
The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow: Text Classics by Thea Astley, Chloe Hooper
$12.95 AUD
Category: Text Classics | Series: Text Classics Ser.
In 1930 the superintendent of a mission on a Queensland island, driven mad by his wife's death, goes on a murderous rampage. Fearing for their lives, the other whites arm a young Indigenous man and order him to shoot Uncle Boss dead. The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow traces the lead-up to this bloody s ...Show more
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
The story of a death, a policeman, an island and a country.The Tall Manis 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 Hu ...Show more
The Tall Man : Death and Life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper
$24.95 AUD
$32.95 (24% off)
Category: History
In November 2004, in the small township of Palm Island in the far north of Queensland, Detective Hurley arrested Cameron Doomadgee for swearing at him. Doomadgee was drunk. A few hours later he was dead, his liver (according to the inquest) so badly damaged it was almost severed.
The Tall Man - Penguin Australian Classics by Chloe Hooper
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
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 and wildest ...Show more
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