Bibliograph

Solomon's Noose, The True Story of Her Majesty's Hangman of Hobart

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Solomon's Noose, The True Story of Her Majesty's Hangman of Hobart

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Solomon's Noose

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

The True Story of Her Majesty's Hangman of Hobart

Summary

The story of a young convict, Solomon Blay, who became Her Majesty's hangman in Van Diemen's Land; the man who personally had to deliver an Empire's judgment on 200 men and women, and endured his own noose of personal demons and demonization 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 Diemen's 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 Blay's character was forged in England and the desperate, brutal nature of being a convict in Van Diemen's Land. Solomon's 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 Empire's youngest executioner. Beware the shock of the true

Target audience

adult

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