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Born: Established: 1960 Melbourne City, Melbourne, Victoria, ;
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1 18 y separately published work icon Clancy of the Overflow The Bushman in the City i "I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better", A. B. Paterson , Adelaide : Paul Rigby , 1982 Z319612 1889 single work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Clancy of the Overflow A. B. Paterson , Robert Ingpen (illustrator), Adelaide : Rigby , 1982 Z1052495 1982 single work picture book children's
1 1 y separately published work icon I Sang for My Supper : Memories of a Food Writer Margaret Fulton , Sydney : Lansdowne , 1999 7536574 1999 single work autobiography

'For more than forty years Margaret Fulton has been writing about food and cookery. Generations of Woman, Woman's Day, and New Idea readers have used her recipes and benefited from her advice on cooking and entertaining. Her cookbooks have sold millions of copies. Now, in I Sang for My Supper, the doyenne of Australian food writers tells the story of her life.

The youngest of six children of Scottish migrants, Margaret Fulton was three years old when her family arrived in Australia in 1927. She grew up in Glen Innes, New South Wales, and came to Sydney during World War II to seek a career as a fashion designer. Wartime restrictions, however, led her to a job at Australian Gas Light Company giving cookery classes and demonstrations. And so her career in food began, a career that has made her name a household word and resulted in her being awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia and declared an Australian National Living Treasure.

'But life for Margaret Fulton has not always been plain sailing. A failed first marriage left her as a young single mother with no money. Her experience as part owner of Berida Manor, a health resort that played host to the Commonwealth Heads of Government immediately after the Hilton bombing in 1978, prompted a journalist to dub her 'the hostess with the mostest - the most prime ministers and the most problems'. And for ten of her later years she lived under the threat of financial ruin and the loss of her beloved home in Balmain.

The heartaches and the highlights make engrossing reading.

'Part memoir, part social history, part food commentary, I Sang for My Supper not only tells the personal story of an influential Australian woman but presents a picture of the changing social and cultural scene in Australia from the 1920s to the present and illustrates how Australia's cuisine has changed in those years.

Photographs from family albums, press clippings and illustrations, as well as many of Margaret Fulton's favourite recipes from each period of her life, add a nostalgic flavour to a book that conveys all the warmth, humour and drama of a remarkable life.' (Publication summary)

1 7 y separately published work icon Miles Franklin : Her Brilliant Career Colin Roderick , Adelaide : Rigby , 1982 Z158026 1982 single work biography
1 y separately published work icon Among the Carrion Crows Enid Lyons , Adelaide : Rigby , 1972 Z1237874 1972 single work autobiography
1 y separately published work icon Banjo Paterson's Poems of the Bush A. B. Paterson , Knoxfield : J. M. Dent , 1987 Z502976 1987 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Sun on the Stubble Omnibus Colin Thiele , Sydney : Lansdowne , 1996 Z1057245 1996 selected work children's fiction children's
1 1 y separately published work icon Sun on the Stubble Sydney : Lansdowne , 1996 Z1057235 1996 single work children's fiction children's
1 7 y separately published work icon The Rim of the Morning : Six Stories Colin Thiele , Adelaide : Rigby , 1966 Z827972 1966 selected work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon A Gift Book of Roses Bronwyn Hilton , Sydney : Lansdowne , 1995 Z818690 1995 anthology poetry
14 23 Storm Boy Colin Thiele , Adelaide : Rigby , 1963 Z947092 1963 single work children's fiction children's (taught in 3 units)
— Appears in: Kumurins un Kamolins; Es protu lekt pari pelkem; Vetras zens 1999;

The story of a boy and his pelican, Mr Percival, who live on the South Australian Coorong.

1 y separately published work icon Banjo's Animal Tales A. B. Paterson , Sydney : Lansdowne , 1994 Z1470067 1994 selected work short story children's
1 y separately published work icon The Adventures of Bromley Bear Alan Campbell , Patricia Campbell , Sydney : Lansdowne , 1994 Z1016447 1994 selected work picture book children's
1 y separately published work icon Above Sydney Nicholas Brash , McMahons Point : Kevin Weldon , 1984 Z800001 1984 single work prose travel
3 8 y separately published work icon The Sun on the Stubble Colin Thiele , Adelaide : Rigby , 1961 Z1057248 1961 single work children's fiction humour children's 'From the classic Australian children's author. Originally pubished in 1961, this is the coming-of-age story of a boy and his immigrant family in Depression-era Australia: Bruno Gunther lives on a farm in South Australia, where adventures spring up like wheat shoots. He has to cope with his stern dad, his mother and family--and trickiest of all is the new teacher in town, who is too alert for comfort. Then there are the local arguements, that all seem to flare up around complicated bits of machinery, like water pumps and cars. All they really need is a little help from Bruno to sort everything out . . . . For young readers ages 9-14. This novel and three others by Thiele inspired an Australian TV series, 'Sun on the Stubble': The Valley Between, Uncle Gustav's Ghosts & The Shadow on the Hills.' 

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1 y separately published work icon Bromley and the Hidden Treasure Alan Campbell , Patricia Campbell , Sydney : Lansdowne , 1993 Z1015979 1993 single work picture book children's
1 y separately published work icon Bromley to the Rescue Alan Campbell , Patricia Campbell , Sydney : Lansdowne , 1993 Z1015959 1993 single work picture book children's
1 4 y separately published work icon Bromley Climbs Uluru Alan Campbell , Patricia Campbell , Sydney : Lansdowne , 1993 Z833674 1993 single work picture book children's
1 y separately published work icon A Literary Heritage : 'Banjo' Paterson A. B. Paterson , Sydney : Lansdowne , 1988 Z1336220 1988 selected work poetry extract prose short story
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