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Jennifer Mackenzie Dunbar
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Jennifer is a writer of novels and short stories. Drawing on her love of history, music and mythology she explores the stories left untold in conventional historical accounts. Her most recent novel Missing Pieces will be published  by MidnightSun Publishing in  June 2023 who also included her short story The Man Who Rowed Away in the anthology Crush released in 201. She self-published her debut novel Vivaldi’s Lost Concert in 2019.
Her previous work as a social worker provides her with a rich source of material to develop her colourful and complex characters and compelling plots. Her travels have taken to beautiful and enchanting places, including Venice, London and the highlands of Scotland – settings often found in her work. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, Sociology and Social Work and has completed many creative writing courses. She lives and works a Kaurna land overlooking the fabulous Sturt Gorge Park. 
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​Missing Pieces : Marianne Mackay, a bio-archaeologist, is sent by her ambitious and manipulative boss, George, to the Isle of Lewis to curate the loan of twelve of the British Museum’s famous and mysterious Lewis Chessmen. Still grieving the harrowing death of her much loved father in a hit and run road accident, she now suspects that George has plagiarised her Master’s thesis and plans to sideline her for his own gain. Arriving on Lewis, desperate and almost beaten, her life begins to change when the she becomes enchanted by the mystery of the exquisite chess pieces and their mysterious discovery in a Scottish sandhill two hundred years ago and sets out to try and find the forty-nine pieces that are still missing. The novel takes the reader back through time to 11th C Iceland and Scotland  and into the depths of the Highlands during the brutal Scottish Clearances.

Pre-orders available soon. 

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Vivaldi's Lost Concerto:  Fiona Sinclair knows she must do all that she can to earn her release from prison. A childhood of neglect, years of homelessness and drug abuse have all but eroded the good in her. When she is given a battered flute as part of her music therapy, she begins to hear again a tune that has enchanted her since childhood, a tune she's  drawn upon to get her through hard times. By chance she learns that her mysterious tune is in fact a  Vivaldi flute concerto recently discovered in an Cistercian abbey, buried there for three hundred years . She is determined to solve the mystery  of how she already knows the concerto's tune. Her searching  takes her, and the reader,  back to 18th Century Venice and into the lives of the famous composer Antonio Vivaldi, his housekeeper and secret lover Paolina Giro and Lord Robert Kerr, a young Scottish nobleman on his Grand Tour of Europe trying to escape his family's demands to join the fight against the tartan clad  rebellious Jacobites. ​
Available at: 
Amazon Australia     Booktopia Book Depository   Shakespeare's Books Blackwood
Dymocks City and Glenelg        Harry Hartog Burnside   Mostly Books Mitcham​


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​.The Man Who Rowed Away by Jennifer Mackenzie Dunbar draws on the mythical Celtic selkie and is about a love neglected.
Crush: stories about love is a collection of short stories about Love. Bursting with affection, wit, loss, sex and a whole lot of love, the authors in this collection face the burning beauty of love and write of both the blaze and the ashes left behind.  Crush will quicken the pulses of cynics and believers alike as it reimagines everything that make the heart leap. Editted by Simone Corletto, Amy t. Matthews, Jess M. Mill and Lynette Washington. Published by midnightsunpublishing.com/

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  • Books
    • Published Work
    • Short Stories
    • More About Jennifer
  • Events
  • Blog
  • RESEARCHING INFORMATION
    • Researching Vivaldi's Lost Concerto >
      • Newbattle Abbey
      • Venice
    • Research for Missing Pieces >
      • The Scottish Clearances
      • Kelp Production in the Hebrides.
      • Icelandic Sagas and Cape Breton
      • British Museum
      • Blackhouses
  • Dunbar Todd Ferguson Family History
    • Todds in Ayrshire
    • Todds in Galloway >
      • Abbey of Luce
    • Fergusssons , Dalmellington,
    • Fergusons Ayr >
      • Fergusons of Ayr- Photos
      • James Murray Ferguson
      • James, John Todd and William Ferguson
      • John and Grace Ferguson in Manchester
      • Gracie Craik Ferguson
    • Dunbars in Wigtownshire
    • Dunbars in Manchester
    • Creers
    • Falconers
    • GRACE DUNBAR AND JOHN FERGUSON IN MANCHESTER
    • Hugh F Dunbar
  • Contact