Chloe Hooper is een Australische auteur, erkend voor haar scherpe analyse van complexe sociale en ethische kwesties. Haar literaire werk duikt diep in de ingewikkelde complexiteit van de menselijke natuur en maatschappelijke structuren. Door middel van meeslepende verhalen en nauwgezet onderzochte onderwerpen nodigt Hooper lezers uit om diep na te denken over fundamentele vragen van rechtvaardigheid en menselijkheid. Haar vermogen om journalistieke nauwkeurigheid te combineren met literaire diepgang vestigt haar als een belangrijke stem in de hedendaagse literatuur.
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 firebugs. But the detectives soon found themselves on the trail of a man they didn't know
TWO PEOPLE. HOW MANY LIES? A WOMAN AND A MAN DRIVE AT DUSK TO A RURAL MANSION FOR A FINAL WEEKEND TOGETHER. IT'S ALL BEEN A GAME. BOTH PLAYERS UNDERSTOOD THE RULES. OR SO THE WOMAN THINKS. AT THE HOUSE, A NEW GAME BEGINS. A TRAP HAS BEEN SET. BUT HOW AND WHY? AND FOR WHOM?
This 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. This is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Chris Hurley who chose to work in some of the toughest and wildest places in Australia, and of the struggle to bring him to trial. Above all, The Tall Man is a story in luminous detail of two worlds clashing - and a haunting moral puzzle that no reader will forget.
Tasmanian schoolteacher Kate Byrne is having an affair with the father of her most gifted fourth grader, Lucien. Her lover's wife has just published Murder at Black Swan Point, a true-crime story about the brutal slaying of a young adulteress in a nearby town. Kate herself has become so obsessed with the murder and so convinced that the published account has it all wrong that she sets about writing her own version -- this one for children, narrated by Australian animals. Though Lucien's father brings Kate to life sexually in encounters of escalating eroticism, he cannot dull her obsession. Fixated on the crime of passion, Kate is becoming less and less aware of the present and of how her behavior may align her fate with that of the dead girl. Chloe Hooper chillingly captures this young woman's unraveling in an intense, witty, superbly crafted novel.