Norman+Lindsay

The Magic Pudding is a great book to read and is about a koala named Bunyip Bluegum, Bill Barnacle and a penguin named Sam Sawnoff. But to its author, artist and writer, Norman Lindsay (1879–1969), the book was a ‘little bundle of piffle’. Written as a distraction from the horrors of World War 1 and his brother’s death on the Somme, he thought it held him back as a serious writer. Norman Lindsay's house and studio is now a museum of his life and work. It is in Faulconbridge in the Blue Mountains and is managed by The National Trust.