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Solomon's Noose : The True Story of Her Majesty's Hangman of Hobart Town, Paperback / softback Book

Solomon's Noose : The True Story of Her Majesty's Hangman of Hobart Town Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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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 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 Diemans 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.

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