Allen Unwin imprint: 1774 books
Beyond Right and Left
New politics and the culture wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
'Original, courageous, realistic and fresh.' Robert Manne, Professor, School of Politics, La Trobe University
Do Right and Left still mean anything in politics? Are environmental issues always 'left wing'? Is it only 'right wing' to worry about the family? In fact, these traditional connections...
by David McKnight
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1994
Australia's Spies and their Secrets tells the inside story of the rise and fall of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) - Australia's premier spy body. Based on thousands of documents never before revealed, along with interviews with over thirty former ASIO officers and many of...
Drawn Out
A seriously funny memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Drawn Out is a hilarious, heartbreaking, heart-warming account of Tom Scott's tragicomic childhood, his manic student-newspaper days, his turbulent years stumbling through the corridors of power, his fallings out with prime ministers, his collaborations with comic legends John Clarke, A.K. Grant and...
Walking Free
The extraordinary true story of a young man who fled war-torn Iraq, came to Australia as a refugee by boat, spent months in a detention centre and went on to become a pioneering surgeon.
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
In 1999, Munjed Al Muderis was a young surgical resident working in Baghdad when a squad of Military Police marched into the operating theatre and ordered the surgical team to mutilate the ears of three busloads of army deserters. When the head of surgery refused, he was executed in front of his staff....
Higher and Higher
From drugs and destruction to health and happiness
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
'This is one of the most powerful, real, relevant, and thought-provoking books I have picked up in some time.' The Art of Healing
Have you ever wondered:
Whether marijuana can lead to harder drugs.
How come you feel immortal on speed.
Why acid trips can feel so good - or...
by Andrew Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Is your business all consuming? Have you forgotten what it's like to have a life? Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed day after day? Would you like to take control of your life again?
If, like most business owners, you are struggling to balance your business and your life, don't worry! 101...
by Andrew P Street
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
In August 2013, Australia welcomed Tony Abbott as its new prime minister. This promised to be a marriage between responsible government and a nation tired of the endless drama of the Gillard-Rudd years. But then... Well...
Fairfax columnist Andrew P Street details the litany of gaffes, blunders...
The Independent Member for Lyne
A memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Passionate, vivid and immediate, and full of insights, this is Rob Oakeshott's honest and real story of life in Australian politics. From his apprenticeship in the NSW parliament to the last days of the Gillard government, he tells it as it was.
When the results of the 2010 federal election...
Inside Private Equity
Thrills, spills and lessons by the author of Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Bill Ferris has led the field in Australian venture capital and private equity for over forty years. He has seen his share of successful floats, fly-by-night wonders and companies gone wrong. In his bestselling Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained he took readers behind closed doors to explain how the...
by Kerry O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Paul Keating is widely credited as the chief architect of the most significant period of political and economic reform in Australia's history. Twenty years on, there is still no story from the horse's mouth of how it all came about. No autobiography. No memoir. Yet he is the supreme story-teller of...
More Important than Life or Death
Inside the Best of Australian Sport
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
For years journalists have been eyewitnesses to athletes - from the elite to downtrodden - chasing, achieving or falling short of their dreams. They have observed, chronicled and attempted to find the secrets to winning and losing. For some, sport may be a meaningless diversion. For most, it is life's...
The Valley
A story from the heart of the land
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
'I had two paddocks to look after,' said Les Gilpin, 'one of 1800 acres, one of 1000 acres. My job was to keep the rabbits down.' Les left school when he turned fourteen and went to work as a rabbiter, living in a corrugated iron hut, on a remote corner of a property. This was Australia in 1945. Les...
Great Australian Scams, Cons and Rorts
A book of dodgy schemes and crazy dreams from the bush to the city
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
'Australian history is...so curious and strange, that it...does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies... It is full of surprises, and adventures, and incongruities, and contradictions, and incredibilities; but they are all true, they all happened.' - Mark Twain
Australia is...
An Awkward Truth: The bombing of Darwin, February 1942
The bombing of Darwin, February 1942
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
The compelling and very human story of the first foreign assault on Australian soil since settlement - the attack on Darwin by the Japanese in February, 1942. Darwin was a battle Australia would rather forget. Yet the Japanese attack on 19 February 1942 was the first wartime assault on Australian...