Lorraine Day

Lorraine began her writing career as a journalist in Melbourne, writing for trade newspapers and magazines in the fields of hospitality, travel, aviation and transport, and was Melbourne journalist for the Daily Commercial News, before travelling to Central Australia and the Northern Territory, where she wrote for the Darwin Advertiser and NT News as well as freelancing to numerous publications. After returning south, she worked for the Warrnambool Gazette and Portland Observer, until settling in Adelaide in 1995, when she worked for South Australia Statewide until its demise. Lorraine then started her own business offering publishing support services to other authors and producing her own books. She is also the South Australian journalist for the industrial cleaning magazine Inclean.

Latest Book: 
Gordon of Dingley Dell: The life of Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870), Poet and Horseman
Freestyle Publications, Adelaide, 2003

     'Life is mostly froth and bubble,
     Two things stand like stone,
     Kindness in another's trouble,
     Courage in your own.'

These well-known words were written by Australia's national poet, Adam Lindsay Gordon, who left his home and family in England at age 19. He spent 14 years in South Australia, mainly in the south-east, where he was a trooper, horse breaker, politician, poet and steeplechase rider. An extraordinary horseman, his famous daredevil 'leap' alongside the Blue Lake at Mount Gambier has never been emulated. His former home, Dingley Dell Cottage, is today a museum and a living memory to the man and his works – a place where the spirit of Adam Lindsay Gordon lives on. Gordon of Dingley Dell is a comprehensive account of the poet's life, intertwined with the history of the day, and includes a selection of Gordon's best-known and loved verses.

Other Books:

Bulldust and Bough Shades: 100 Years of Horse Racing in the Alice
Freestyle Publications, Adelaide, 1981


Genres:

• Australiana
• (auto)biography
• essays/articles
• historical fiction
• nonfiction
• travel

Website: www.freestylepublications.com.au

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