Big Timber (novel)

Big Timber is a 1936 Australian novel by William Hatfield.

The novel was set in the timber industry, where Hatfield had worked.

The novel was serialised in the Sydney Morning Herald in 1936.

The Bulletin called the novel "a conventional poor-boy-rich-girl romance which the author has made the vehicle of a considerable knowledge of the timber industry and of the lives of trees."

The novel sold very well.

Premise
Dale works as a tree feller and studies at university in an effort to be worthy of the love of a young woman. However his growing passion for re-forestation threatens to tear their romance apart.

Adaptation
In November 1935 it was announced Hatfield had been hired by Cinesound Films to adapt his story for a film. Eventually Cinesound made Tall Timbers about the forestry industry but it was based on an original story by Frank Hurley.