David Hobson: 5 books

This book is dedicated to my mother Eve who sadly left this mortal life a few years ago. She died in the right way in so much that she just closed her eyes and went to sleep, forever. But she left us far too early in her life and she had a lot to live for. She was much loved and is sorely missed. It...

Dibble is passionate, obsessive and an absolutely “mad” gardener. This is a year in his garden, where he struggles alone against the forces of Mother Nature, pests, atrocious weather and Shirl, the garden woman from up the street. This is what readers around the world have said: “Even...

What would you do if your neighbour stole your pile of topsoil? In the hilarious and highly readable “Soiled Reputations”, meet Cynthia and Riley, a pair of intense gardeners struggling to outdo each other. Whether they are chasing toads, growing monster pumpkins, or building the less...

This is the first book in a series of children's stories featuring characters located in a harbour setting. The characters are such as tugs, a submarine, barges, police boats, water taxis, sea-planes, trucks, cranes, a cruise liner and a dinner cruise boat.Each story in the series (collectively known as 'Harbour Tales') features one or more of the characters as the central element.

Interdisciplinary perspectives on definitional concerns, underlying mechanisms, and the functional significance of joint attention. Academic interest in the phenomenon of joint attention—the capacity to attend to an object together with another creature—has increased rapidly over the past...