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Welcome to Anthony Hill's home page

Anzac Day 2025: "Young Digger" the Unknown War Orphan

Interview with SBS Radio about the little French war orphan smuggled back to Australia after WWI

 Soldier Boy The Play 

On the 2025 VCE Drama Playlist

To be performed by Theatre Works June-July 2025

Radio 3MBS interview with Nick Tolhurst, 31 May 2025 (first item)

Interview with Beng Oh, Director of Soldier Boy in Theatre Matters

In conversation with Beng Oh, on Soldier Boy at Theatre Works 

Summer 2025 Newsletter:  Author and Playwright

This Writing Life

A year of writing tips for new and established authors

Anthony Hill is an award-winning Australian author of 21 books of stories ranging from the First and Second World Wars, soldier settlement, prisoners of war, boy soldiers and war orphans to convicts and the Aboriginal 'Stolen Generations'.  His best-selling books include  Soldier Boy, The Burnt Stick, The Story of Billy Young, Young Digger and Captain Cook's Apprentice. Anthony writes for adults and younger readers.

He has the unique skill of writing books which cross over from a younger audience to an adult readership... Christopher Bantick.

Anthony's Books. Click on the menu buttons (above) for notes and links for each of Anthony's books ... and  About Anthony's background as a writer, journalist, and speech-writer for the Governor-General.

eBooks. Many of Anthony's books are now eBooks. Click on titles and links from your favourite online ebook store . Growing Up & Other Stories, Spindrift and Nganbra are new out as eBooks through my website.

Newsletters. Click on the Newsletters button on the menu list (left). Just published Summer 2025 Newsletter

Matthew Flinders laid to rest, July 2023

Bulletproof! 100 Years of War, Anzac and Children's Books (CBCA 2014)

New find: Admiral Isaac Manley's Map (Captain Cook Society journal)

 'Young Digger': great new photos discovered

TEACHERS - CLASS SETS AVAILABLE OF BOOKS IN PRINT

Click on the covers for details, notes and links on each book