The Tall Man Death and Life on Palm Island released as Tall Man The Death of Doomadgee in the USA

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 watchhouse cell. The story of a death, a policeman, an island and a country.It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher 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, it is a story in luminous detail of two worlds clashing – and a haunting moral puzzle that no reader will forget. Selected for Best Books Of The Year lists by Ali Smith, Colm Tóibín, Matt Condon, Peter Carey, Salon.com, The Globe & Mail and Dwight Garner in The New York Times."The country's finest work of literature so far this century. A haunting moral maze, described with such intimate observation and exquisite restraint that I kept pausing to take a breath and silently cheer the author ... [I]n her tale of the fatal collision between two 36-year-old males, black Cameron Doomadgee and white Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley, Hooper ... has produced an Australian classic." - Robert Drewe, The Age"Hooper followed the case and its main characters for two and a half years, and she does their complexity a remarkable justice ... Extraordinary." - Alison McCulloch, New York Times Book Review Palm Island may be the most beautiful tropical island in Australia. In 2004 Cameron Doomadgee, a 36-year-old resident of the island, was arrested for swearing at a white police officer. Within forty-five minutes he was dead. This title recounts this story and explores Aboriginal myths and history and uncovers buried secrets of white mischief.