Des Hunt: 17 books

In How to Sell the Way Your Customer Buys, Des Hunt, the Australian-based international trainer, speaker and author, shows you how to do just that in clear and simple language and with a touch of Aussie humour. Des talks about: * Why people buy the things they buy * The Hidden Persuaders...

Set in Charleston, a gold-mining ghost town 30km south of Westport, Frog Whistle Mine is another of Des Hunt's trademark exciting, beautifully written contemporary action adventure stories for children, with ecological themes. Set in Charleston, a gold-mining ghost town 30km south of Westport, Frog...

Statistics show that nearly half of all first marriages end up on the rocks and finish in divorce. These figures do not take into account all the couples that don’t marry, try living together and eventually break up. Nor do they take into account all the unhappy marriages that are ‘staying together...

The fossilized dinosaur lay undisturbed for millions of years . . . until the boy found it and the trouble began . . . tim thomas is searching for dinosaur fossils in the hills above Pounamu, his grandparent's sheep station. His mum drowned when he was four, leaving tim with only a vague memory of...

This is Australia’s quiet best-selling book and practical guide to self-discovery and personal growth. In it you will discover: • Your own personality style and the style of those you live and work with • How to see yourself as others see you • The strengths, shortcomings...

Central Otago’s searing summer has been long and brutal. And yet somehow the sheep and smaller creatures on Stonefields Station have survived. That’s until Garth Fischer arrives, along with his gun and plans to change things in a big way. Then three youngsters — Tamsin, the farmer’s daughter,...

Noah Larsen lives in the big city, enjoying fast-foods, movies, and heaps of mates. That’s until his parents decide to move to Stewart Island. Looking at a map, Noah sees the island as the most desolate place on earth, stuck way down south, almost at the bottom of the world. The reality, when he...

When Robbie Walker’s father dies of cancer, he takes out his anger on anyone near. In the hope of saving what remains of their family, Robbie’s mother sends him off to spend the summer holidays on Uncle Jim’s farm where his father grew up. There, in a hidden valley that his father once called...

When tyler Matthews wins a national ecological competition for a place on the NAtURE SOUtH Eco tour, he has no idea of where it will lead him. After he travels to the bottom of New Zealand's South Island to join the tour, he meets the other two winners, Hine and the maddening Mandy - and soon finds...

Jack Stewart hates his new life in Taupo. Everyone at school picks on him; his only friend is a stray cat called Chainsaw; and his parents are always away working.Then he meets Fluoro, Taupo’s most visible street person. Fluoro’s home is an old explosion crater in Crown Park where steam...

An action-packed adventure story from master storyteller Des Hunt. It's the school holidays and Zac thinks he might go crazy with boredom. He's living in exile with his disgraced father on the remote terawhiti Station on Wellington's wild southwest coast.then Zac and his dad witness a boat sink during...

Kerikeri is kiwi country. There the flightless birds live in common places like farms, sides of roads, and pine forests. That’s why the law says all dogs must be on a lead. When dead kiwi are found in nearby Waitangi forest, it becomes clear that someone is ignoring that law. A kiwi killer is on...

Where Cuckoos Call tells the story of a migratory shining cuckoo, raised by 12 year old Ben Mansfield, a keen ornithologist who looks after endangered birds nesting in a sheltered bay on his family farm in the Coromandel Peninsula. Ben and his mum are dealing with the long term effects of his father's...

'It will get dark. The crocodiles will come . . . It is for you to decide, Luke. Live or die - it is your choice.' Luke Evans never knew his father - he'd cleared out before he was born. So when his internet skills track down someone living at a luxurious resort in tropical Queensland who could be...