Solomon's Noose. The True Story Of Her Majesty's Hangman Of Hobart Town

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Melbourne Books
Publisher Place: VIC
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: First Edition

Description: 328 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in Very good condition throughout. 1st page has been price clipped.

Publishers Description: The story of a young convict, Solomon Blay, who became Her Majestys hangman in Van Diemens Land; the man who personally had to deliver an Empires judgment on 200 men and women, and endured his own noose of personal demons and demonisation in order to "survive"; all in the context of the great struggles of good-evil, life-death, hope-despair, which drew the attention of Darwin, Twain, Trollope and Dickens as Van Diemens Land evolved from a Hades of Evil to sow the seeds of nationhood. The book paints a vivid picture of the society and poverty from which Blays character was forged in England and the desperate, brutal nature of being a convict in Van Diemens Land. Solomons Noose is an important book in exposing the dark underbelly in the formation of modern Australia. "From the furthest corner of that foreign country, the past, comes the haunting story of the convict who became the British Empires youngest executioner. Beware the shock of the true." - Andrew Rule, award-winning journalist and author."Impressive research and a story that challenges the imagination - except that its true. A prisoner elects to become a hangman - to improve his lot in life. All this set against the Gothic world of Van Diemens Land in the time of convicts, bushrangers and rough justice." - Les Carlyon, bestselling author of Gallipoli and The Great War.

ISBN: 9781922129741