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Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 1987 Writing Starts with a Chocolate Bar
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    y separately published work icon Fox on My Door : A Journey through My Life David Martin , Blackburn : Collins Dove , 1987 Z524032 1987 single work autobiography young adult 'To enter the room where David Martin writes you must bang a door knocker shaped like a fox's head.
    Fox on My Door is a voyage round David Martin's study and a journey through a life of adventure. The explorers are his grandchildren, Toby and Sophie, and the drawing are by his son Jan.
    What a trip! It leads to a girl in Germany who just cannot tell David from his twin brother. To Greece, where sign language produces a ridiculous encounter. To the front line of a war in Spain. To India and a trainful of bandits - if that is what they are!

    And to Australia. There's a stock-whip in David Martin's study, a carved stick with a strange history, a clock that has made him enemies. But of all the things crammed into ti, what will he throw on the wheelbarrow when the bushfire roars across the hill?

    Fox on My Door is packed with true and exciting stories, and here one of our best writers for young people tells how he works and became what he is. There is strife and thoughtfulness, laughter and love.

    There are not many books quite like this one.' (Publisher's blurb)
         Blackburn : Collins Dove , 1987     pg. 45-58
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    y separately published work icon Overland no. 107 June 1987 Z588675 1987 periodical issue 1987 pg. 37-40
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Subjects:
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    Germany,
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    Western Europe, Europe,
  • 1930s
  • 1940s
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