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Chloe Hooper Chloe Hooper i(A9387 works by)
Born: Established: 1973 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon Richard Fidler in Conversation Chloe Hooper (interviewer), Melbourne : Readings , 2022 25657506 2022 single work podcast interview

'Richard Fidler in conversation with fellow author Chloe Hooper about Fidler's latest work, The Book of Roads and Kingdoms.'

1 y separately published work icon Sarah Krasnostein in Conversation Chloe Hooper (presenter), 2022 24383785 2022 single work podcast

'Sarah Krasnostein in conversation with fellow author Chloe Hooper about Krasnostein's recent Quarterly Essay on mental health and vulnerability in Australia.' 

1 6 y separately published work icon Bedtime Story Chloe Hooper , Cammeray : Simon and Schuster Australia , 2022 23818532 2022 single work autobiography

'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 two young sons.

'By instinct, she turns to the bookshelf. Can the news be broken as a bedtime tale? Is there a perfect book to prepare children for loss? Hooper embarks on a quest to find what practical lessons children’s literature—with its innocent orphans and evil adults, magic, monsters and anthropomorphic animals—can teach about grief and resilience in real life.

'As she discovers, ‘the right words are an incantation, a spell of hope for the future.’ From the Brothers Grimm to Frances Hodgson Burnett and Tolkien and Dahl—all of whom suffered childhood bereavements—she follows the breadcrumbs of the world’s favourite authors, searching for the deep wisdom in their books and lives.

'Both memoir and manual, Bedtime Story is stunningly illustrated by the New York Times award-winning Anna Walker. In an age of worldwide uncertainty, here is a profound and moving exploration of the dark and light of storytelling.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Live Recording : Helen Garner on Her Early Career Chloe Hooper (interviewer), Melbourne : Readings , 2019 23469032 2019 single work podcast interview

'Helen Garner talks with Chloe Hooper about her early career and the impact of Monkey Grip and The Children’s Bach on her writing life. This is a live recording from our event.' (Production summary) 

1 'Who Would Become an Arsonist?' : Chloe Hooper on Black Saturday and the Nuances of Blame Chloe Hooper , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 12 October 2018;

'The Tall Man author says her new book is not a polemic on climate change but a portrait of the ‘monster in our imagination’' (Introduction)

1 Introduction Chloe Hooper , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow 2018;
2 6 y separately published work icon The Arsonist The Arsonist : A Mind on Fire Chloe Hooper , Melbourne : Penguin , 2018 14732249 2018 single work non-fiction crime

'The Arsonist takes readers inside the hunt for a fire-lighter. After Black Saturday, a February 2009 day marked by 47 degree heat and firestorms, arson squad detectives arrived at a plantation on the edge of a 26,000-hectare burn site. Eleven people had just been killed and hundreds made homeless. Here, in the Latrobe Valley, where Victoria’s electricity is generated, and the rates of unemployment, crime and domestic abuse are 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.

'The Arsonist tells a remarkable detective story, as the police close in on someone they believe to be a cunning offender; and a puzzling psychological story, as defence lawyers seek to understand the motives of a man who, they claimed, was a naïf that had accidentally dropped a cigarette.

'It is the story not only of this fire - how it happened, the people who died, the aftermath for the community - but of fire in this country. What it has done, what it has meant, what it might yet do. Bushfire is one of Australia’s deepest anxieties, never more so than when deliberately lit. Arson, wrote Henry Lawson, expresses a malice ‘terrifying to those who have seen what it is capable of. You never know when you are safe.‘

'As she did in The Tall Man, Chloe Hooper takes us to a part of the country seldom explored, and reveals something buried but essential in our national psyche. The bush, summertime, a smouldering cigarette - none of these will feel the same again.'  (Publication summary)

1 Suggested Edits 2017 Chloe Hooper , 2016 single work
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 13 August 2016; #SaveOzStories 2016;

'Dear Ms Hopper,

Thank you for submitting this fascinating article. It's a great start, but we wonder if you've considered moving the location to better suit an international audience? This could work wonderfully well in a 'hardscrabble' Anglo-Irish context, or you might like to pursue our suggestions below!'

3 12 y separately published work icon The Engagement Chloe Hooper , Melbourne : Hamish Hamilton , 2012 Z1881042 2012 single work novel thriller

'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 has been looking for a place in the city. The luxury apartments Liese shows him have become sets for a relationship that satisfies their fantasies - and helps pay her debts. It's a game. Both players understand the rules. Or so she thinks.

'Across the ancient landscape they drive at dusk to his grand decaying mansion. Here Liese senses a change in Alexander, and realises a different game has begun.

'This gripping, provocative new novel by one of Australia's finest writers is a psychological thriller for the modern age, one which explores the snares of money and love, and the dark side of erotic imagination. A trap has been set, but how and why? And for whom?' (From the publisher's website.)

1 Capturing a Tragedy With No End in Sight Chloe Hooper , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17 November 2011; (p. 16)

— Review of The Tall Man Tony Krawitz , 2011 single work film/TV
1 The Tall Man Chloe Hooper , 2011 single work essay
— Appears in: The Best Australian Essays : A Ten Year Collection 2011;
1 Boxing for Palm Island Chloe Hooper , 2009 single work essay
— Appears in: The Best Australian Essays 2009 2009; (p. 1-7)
1 What I'm Reading : Chloe Hooper, Writer Chloe Hooper , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 June 2009; (p. 32)
1 Into the Hands of Healing Chloe Hooper , 2009 single work essay
— Appears in: The Age , 7 March 2009; (p. 12-13)
1 The Day Doomagee Died Chloe Hooper , 2008 extract prose (The Tall Man : Death and Life on Palm Island)
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 27-28 December 2008; (p. 17)
1 Under the Rainshadow Chloe Hooper , 2008 single work essay
— Appears in: The Monthly , September no. 38 2008; (p. 50-53)
Chloe Hooper draws comparisons between the characters of Captain Brodie and Manny Cooktown (based on Robert Curry and Peter Prior) in Thea Astley's The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow and the lives of Senior Sargeant Christopher Hurley and Cameron Doomadgee as a means of exploring the complexity of life on Palm Island.
1 30s Chloe Hooper , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 9 August 2008; (p. 12)
1 Once Upon a Lifetime Alexandra Adornetto , Nam Le , Chloe Hooper , Anna Funder , Steven Carroll , Robert Dessaix , Alex Miller , 2008 sequence column
— Appears in: The Age , 9 August 2008; (p. 12-13)
'Writers grow old, alone at their desk, wrestling with tales that cry out to be told.... seven participants [in the 2008 Melbourne Writers Festival] trace the seven ages of storytelling.' (Editor's abstract)
1 A Tall Tale Chloe Hooper , 2008 extract prose (The Tall Man : Death and Life on Palm Island)
— Appears in: The Age , 28 June 2008; (p. 14-15)
5 41 y separately published work icon The Tall Man : Death and Life on Palm Island Chloe Hooper , Camberwell : Hamish Hamilton , 2008 Z1483259 2008 single work prose (taught in 11 units) 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 died in a watch-house cell. According to the inquest, his liver was so badly damaged it was almost severed. (Source: Trove)
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