The Arsonist

The true story of the hunt for the man who lit two fires in Victoria's Latrobe Valley in Australia in 2009 and then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. From the award-winning author of "The Tall Man".

Chloe Hooper's most recent book is the bestselling The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire. The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island won the Victorian, New South Wales, West Australian and Queensland Premiers’ 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 two acclaimed novels, A Child’s Book of True Crime and The Engagement. She lives in Melbourne with her partner and her two sons.