In the spirit of the current Victorian spring racing carnival - if the Prime Minister's Literary Awards were a handicap event how many pages penalty would Chloe Hooper's The Tall Man have accumulated by now? Enquiring minds, etc etc...
As a reminder, this book has already won the following non-fiction awards: NSW Premier's Literary Award, Australian Book Industry Award, Indie Award, Davitt Award, Ned Kelly Award, John Button Prize, Victorian Premier's Literary Award, and Queensland Premier's Literary Award.