Allen Unwin: 2237 books
A Life By Design
The art and lives of Florence Broadhurst
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Late in the afternoon of 16 October 1977, seventy-eight year-old Florence Broadhurst was brutally murdered. Her killer was never found.
The mystery surrounding Florence's death is in keeping with the elegant artifice of her life. Born in rural Australia, Florence soon decided Queensland was...
Manhattan to Baghdad
Despatches from the frontline in the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
On September 11, Paul McGeough stood transfixed on the streets of downtown Manhattan. Only a month earlier he had been in Afghanistan, reporting on the humanitarian crisis gripping the country under Taliban rule. Now he was forced to run for his life as the World Trade Center's second tower collapsed...
Australian Classics
50 great writers and their celebrated works
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
What are the classic works of Australian literature? And what can they tell us about ourselves and the land we live in? Providing a selected overview of Australia's greatest literature, Australian Classics is an accessible companion to our literature and a story of writing in Australia from the nineteenth...
Victoria's Heritage
Lectures to celebrate the 150th anniversary of European settlement in Victoria
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1986
Victoria's 150th anniversary celebrations have put the spotlight on the state, and on its cultural and environmental development. In this book, leading historians survey that development across a number of important areas including literature, painting, environmental control, drama and architecture.
After...
by Shamini Flint, Sally Heinrich
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Marcus is a maths whiz who is not good at sport. His dad is a self-help author who thinks Marcus can achieve anything he sets his mind to, with hilarious results. In illustrated diary format, Marcus's gentle, satiric humour and comic drawings will have readers laughing out loud while learning a surprising amount about sport.
A Short History of Bali: Indonesia's Hindu Realm
Indonesia's Hindu Realm
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
A Short History of Bali covers the entire history of this intriguing and mysterious island from before the Bronze Age to the presidency of Megawati Sukarnoputri and the tragedy of the Kuta bombings on 12 October 2002. It looks at the arrival of Indian culture early European contact the role of anthropologists...
Southeast Asia
An introductory history
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
The first edition of Southeast Asia: An introductory history was published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in a tantalisingly different part of the world. Subsequent editions (translated into Japanese, Khmer, Korean and Thai) have continued to document...
Saltwater People
The waves of memory
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
This book plunges the reader into the unique and vibrant sea worlds of the peoples of northern Australia. We come to learn how profoundly these saltwater people know their bountiful waters and shores, which to them are the sacred endowment of ancestor spirits to their clans - not only as a source...
I, Migrant
A comedian's journey from Karachi to the outback
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Despite nearly being killed by a kangaroo and almost lynched and run out of town after his comedy was taken far too seriously, Sami Shah is very happy to be living in Australia. He has fronted his own satirical show on TV in Karachi, worked as a journalist and been a highly regarded newspaper columnist...
Special
The untold story of Australia's Holden
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
The FJ Holden. It's an unmistakable, much loved and unique symbol of Australia - right up there with the pavlova, Don Bradman's baggy green, or Christmas on the beach.
But how did it get this way? Exactly how did an American car company so accurately grasp Australia's automotive pulse to create...
Car wars
How the car won our hearts and conquered our cities
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
This is the story of how the car changed a society.
Graeme Davison, Australia's leading urban historian, explores the Melbourne he knows so well to show us how the car entered our consciousness - as an object of desire, a symbol of status, a creator of freedoms, a shaper of sexual mores. His...
Ride Like Hell and You'll Get There
Detours into mayhem
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Attempting 300 kph on an untested experimental motorcycle could be considered a perfect way to kill yourself, but Paul Carter is still, well, Paul Carter and danger at high speed is his second name.
Whether discovering that being dyslexic means delivering your lines to camera back to front...
by Morris West
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
American ambassador Maxwell Gordon Amberley has a reputation as a tough negotiator. Yet when he is sent to Vietnam, the dilemma he faces throws him into self-doubt. He is made arbiter of his nation's fate on the one hand, and of the life and death of the ruling house of Vietnam on the other. Out of...
Code of Silence
How one honest police officer took on Australia's most corrupt police force
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
'Wherever there is power and money, there is always the risk of corruption. But everyone has a choice: to become involved or to take a stand against it.'
Colin Dillon is an extraordinary man. He was the first Indigenous policeman in Australia. But that is actually a very small part of his story.
He...