Dale Lorna Jacobsen

Union Jack

This dramatic political novel features a cast of rogues, opportunists and idealists set against a background of corruption, strikes and union bashing in Queensland in the 1920s.

Jack O’Leary, the author’s grandfather, was a pioneering activist member of the Australian Railways Union (ARU) in Queensland in the 1920s. Jack’s union, now the RTBU, provided invaluable support throughout the research undertaken to create this book.

Yenohan's Legacy

"Fran, a thirty-something chisel-wielding woman  encounters a group of men restoring a High Country hut in Namadgi National Park. She inveigles her way into the work party, a weekend that changes her life as she pieces together the story of Yenohan, a young aboriginal girl, and the Thompson family who built the hut."

In between writing drafts of Union Jack, I wrote this manuscript set in the High Country of what is now Namadgi National Park.

The idea for the novel was born during a weekend work party with members of the Kosciuszko Huts Association (I have since become a member) restoring Westerman's Homestead at Mt. Clear.

This manuscript is also seeking a publisher.

Mountain Woman

I have just commenced a new novel, again set in the High Country - this time in Victoria. And once again, this story is drawn from a real-life story uncovered during a High Country ramble with members of the Kosciuszko Huts Association.

Watch this space as the story develops.