
Click on the covers for details, notes, links and to buy each book in print – more covers below.
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 premiers in Melbourne
Channel 7 news item
First reviews "Deeply moving production ... poignant and profoundly human story..."
Soldier boy performance photos
First preview performance Theatre Works 19 June 2025
The team behind Soldier Boy the play
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
Interview with Leanne Cutler, Southern FM Ambrosi
Australian Arts Review "On the Couch" Q&A
Interview with Chris Thompson "Behind the Scenes" (32 minutes in)
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
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