New Zealand Rabbit

The film Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on this true account of Doris Pilkington's mother Molly, who as a young girl led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometer walk home. Under Western Australia's invidious removal policy of the 1930s, the girls were taken from their Aboriginal families at Jigalong on the edge of the Little Sandy Desert, and transported halfway across the state to the Native Settlement at Moore River, north of Perth. Here Aboriginal children were instructed in the ways of white society and forbidden to speak their native tongue.

The Battle of Crete forged a link between the islanders of Crete and the people of Australia and New Zealand which has never been forgotten. HISTORY'S FIRST EVER airborne invasion pitched the cream of the Nazi military, the Fallschirmjaeger, headlong into battle with the island's British and Anzac defenders. Confident of a quick victory, the German paratroopers jumping over Crete in May 1941 were blissfully unaware they were leaping into a cauldron. The defenders, fresh from the debacle of the Battle of Greece, knew they were coming and prepared for them as best they could. Short of ...

Listen to the complete collection of Hairy Maclary's mischievous and mad adventures read by Kyle Pryor, with each story introduced by Lynley Dodd! Out of the gate and off for a walk went Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy . . . Ever since Hairy Maclary first trotted out of the gate and off for...

"A superb action piece ... Worth has a future in this type of writing." - Nevil Gibson, NBR Review "Shocking, tragic, maddening and uplifting – all at once." - Pauline Moore "This book is a tour de force! It really is a triumph..." - Rob Haslett "A must-read. Five out of five stars." - Ross Parry "An engrossing book." - Steve Tilleyshort "The books feel very real to me" - Former Soldier A, New Zealand SAS WHAT links the cover illustrations of German bombers flying over the Athens Acropolis and the snow-capped hills of New Zealand's Central Otago? Long before New Zealand's acclaimed ...