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Below by David Hill
$22.00 NZD
Category: Children
A nerve-wracking underground adventure from a master storyteller . . . 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. When you stood deep inside the tunnel, you could hear the mountain groaning overhead. That's ...Show more
Brave Company by David Hill
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children
Boy Seaman Russell Purchas is stationed on HMNZS Taupo. It's 1952, and the frigate has just entered hostile waters off the coast of Korea. Russell is determined to prove he is a hero, to shake off the shadow of his spineless uncle who died in the Second World War. Russell doesn't have to wait long to be ...Show more
Close to the Wind by David B Hill
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
In May 1940, a group of Auckland yachtsmen who were members of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve left for the war. Leonard Hill, a young Maori sailor, and his friends arrived in Singapore under siege. Playing to their strengths as small boat sailors, they manned fast motor launches, raiding and rescuing ...Show more
Coastwatcher by David Hill
$19.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult/Teenage
No training could have prepared Frank for a dangerous coastwatching mission against the Japanese in this 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 ...Show more
Convict Colony: The Remarkable Story of the Fledgling Settlement That Survived Against the Odds by David Hill
$36.99 NZD
Category: History
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 was dotted with failed colonies, and New South Wales nearly joined them. ...Show more
Dinosaur Hunter: Joan Wiffen's Awesome Fossil Discoveries by David Hill; Phoebe Morris
$25.00 NZD
Category: Children | Series: David Hill's Kiwi Legends
The remarkable true story of science superstar Joan Wiffen, whose fossil discoveries proved that dinosaurs lived in ancient New Zealand. Once there was a clever girl who liked searching for interesting things on the ground. She wanted to know why shells could be found in rocks so far away from the sea. ...Show more
Enemy Camp by David Hill
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children
'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. None of the usual moving around, washing up, wrestling, anything like that. Just rows of prisoners, sitting silently.' It's 1942, and the tiny farm ...Show more
Finding by David Hill
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children
Follow the fortunes of two families - their triumphs and disasters, losses and discoveries - in this enthralling novel by a bestselling author.A family boards a ship bound for New Zealand. What will they find there? Tests lie ahead - war, earthquakes, protest marches, brushes with death. And so do some ...Show more
First to the Top: Sir Edmund Hillary's Amazing Everest Adventure by David Hill; Phoebe Morris
$25.00 NZD
Category: Children | Series: David Hill's Kiwi Legends
Up on the world's highest mountain, the sky is tinged the black color of space and the air is almost too thin to breathe. How did Ed, a small, shy boy from a tiny New Zealand town, grow up to become the world's most famous mountaineer and adventurer? How did he climb Everest and do many other astonishin ...Show more
Hero of the Sea: Sir Peter Blake's Mighty Ocean Quests by David Hill; Phoebe Morris
$25.00 NZD
Category: Children | Series: David Hill's Kiwi Legends
A stunning biographical picture book for young readers about Sir Peter Blake, world-renowned New Zealand yachtsman, adventurer and environmentalist.'Remember,' he wrote, 'this is the most beautiful world, and it's the only one we've got.'Sir Peter Blake's life was filled with amazing adventures. During ...Show more
Journey to Tangiwai (My New Zealand Story) by David Hill; Minky Stapleton
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children
When Peter Cotterill begins his diary in 1953, little does he realise that something is happening elsewhere in New Zealand that is going to have a huge impact on his life. As he tells of his day-to-day life in Napier School, paper round, Scouts, as well as the lasting effects of World War II on his frie ...Show more
Making of Australia by David Hill
$39.99 NZD
Category: Architecture and Interior Design
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 acce ...Show more