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  • Three Scoops: Stories by David Hill

    by David Hill, OneTree House Publishers ...
    Three moments in time and three writing genre: historic fiction / fantasy fiction / futuristic fiction from one of New Zealand's favourite writers of fiction.Historical: Coming HomeThe story of Harry and his loyal horse Blaze as New Zealand rushes to support the British during the time of the war between them and the South African Dutch citizens, known as the Boer War. On the eve of departure ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Making of Australia

    From the author of 1788, The Gold Rush and The Great Race

    by David Hill ...
    This is the story of how a struggling convict settlement grew into six dynamic colonies and then the remarkable nation of Australia. Told through the key figures who helped build it into the thriving nation it is today, David Hill once again offers up Australian history at its most entertaining and accessible.In his latest book, David Hill traces the story of our nation from its European ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • Below

    by David Hill ...
    Caught in a tunnel collapse, Liam and Imogen have to use all their wits to survive in this gripping novel for readers eight years and up. Wright Family Foundation Esther Glen Award for Junior Fiction 2023 When you stood deep inside the tunnel, you could hear the mountain groaning overhead. That's what Liam Geary's father had told him, anyway. It sounded stupid, till you stood inside a big tunnel; ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Convict Colony

    The remarkable story of the fledgling settlement that survived against the odds

    by David Hill ...
    The author of the magnificent bestselling account of the First Fleet returns to early Sydney to tell the story of the years that followed as it's never been told before.The British plan to settle Australia was a high-risk venture. We now take it for granted that the first colony was the basis of one of the most successful nations in the world today. But in truth, the New World of the 18th century ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • See Ya, Simon

    by David Hill ...
    Simon is a typical teenager – in every way except one. Simon likes girls, weekends and enjoys mucking about and playing practical jokes. But what s different is that Simon has muscular dystrophy – he is in a wheelchair and doesn t have long to live. See Ya, Simon is told by Simon's best friend, Nathan. Funny, moving and devastatingly honest, it tells of their last year together. Winner of the ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Enemy Camp

    by David Hill ...
    When of hundreds of Japanese captives arrive at Featherston POW camp, the tiny town is divided. Tensions run high and then, on 25 February 1943, disaster strikes. Three boys witness it all. A compelling new novel by an award-winning author. 'We knew straightaway that something was happening. Extra men in khaki uniforms stood at the main gates. Behind the wire, figures in blue sat on the ground. ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • Coastwatcher

    by David Hill ...
    A tense, exciting war adventure inspired by the coastwatchers of Operation Pacific, from award-winning author David Hill. ‘It’s not going to be a cushy job, young Benson. You’re on your own. Japs will be looking for you. Far as they’re concerned, you’re spies. And when a spy gets captured, remember . . .’ It’s 1943, and 19-year-old radio operator Frank Benson is shipped out to an enemy-occupied ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Brave Company

    by David Hill ...
    Featured on the New Zealand Listener's 50 best children's books 2013 Something in the water, a hundred yards or so away. Russell jerked the binoculars back, trying to find it again. He had to be sure; mustn't make a fool of himself. Where was it? Then he saw it through the lenses once more.His voice rang along the deck. 'Mine! Bearing 290 degrees. 100 yards. Mine!' Sixteen-year-old Boy Seaman ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Vapors

    A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice

    by David Hill ...
    A 2020 New York Times notable book | One of the Chicago Tribune's best nonfiction books of 2020"Complex, turbulent, as haunting as a pedal steel solo" —Jonathan Miles, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)"One of 21 books we can't wait to read in 2020" — Thrillist | A New York Times Book Review summer reading pick | A GQ<... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Flight Path

    by David Hill ...
    A gripping novel for young adults that captures both the daring and the everyday realities of serving in the Air Force during the Second World War. Pete and Paul yelled together. 'Bandit! Nine o'clock! Bandit!' Jack spun to stare. There was the Messerschmitt on their left, streaking straight at them. Eighteen-year-old Jack wanted to escape boring little New Zealand. But he soon finds that flying ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Their Greatest Disgrace

    by David Hill ...
    “Their Greatest Disgrace” outlines the 17-year campaign to clear the names of two RAF pilots who had been maliciously blamed for the 1994 crash on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland in which 29 died. The evidence it sets out was accepted by Lord Alexander Philip during his Mull of Kintyre Review (2010-2011). The finding of gross negligence against the two pilots was set aside by the UK government in ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • Sunlit Pool of the Finished Image

    by David Hill ...
    Gustave Courbet's L'Origine du Monde depicts a realistic, close-up view of a woman's genitalia: one of the most notorious paintings ever made. This novel seeks to give the painting a voice from under the male gaze, following the painting from her production in 1866 up to the present day. This is a journey from revolutionary Paris to Nazi-controlled Budapest, to the birth of French psychoanalysis ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus