 Ursula Dubosarsky's 1991 time-travel novel "Zizzy Zing" is set in Katoomba in 1938, at the time of the Sesquicentenary.Poet and author, Steven Herrick wrote a novel, 'The Bogan Mondrian' located in modern-day Katoomba.His verse-novel, 'love, ghosts and nose-hair' is also set in the town.