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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Arsonist, The: A Mind on Fire
Author: HOOPER CHLOE
Format: HARDCOVER
Imprint: PENGUIN
Price: $39.99
Publishing status: Active
As she did in the excellent The Tall Man,
Chloe Hooper traces a crime and its
aftermath with subtlety, empathy and
grace. The Arsonist is Brendan Sokaluk, the
man convicted of deliberately lighting the
Churchill fires on 2009’s Black Saturday.
While the book is divided into two main
parts – ‘The Detectives’ trying to piece
together the ‘right bits’ and ‘The Lawyers’
defending Sokaluk – its focus is broader,
looking at the victims and survivors but
most of all on Sokaluk himself, an autistic
man with intellectual disability who is, in
many ways, lost. NB: Hardback available
only while stocks last.
ISBN: 9780143795551