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CHLOE HOOPER's The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008) won the Victorian, New South Wales, West Australian and Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, as well as the John Button Prize for Political Writing, and a Ned Kelly Award for crime writing. She is also the author of The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire, and two novels, A Child's Book of True Crime and The Engagement.