Allen Unwin: 2237 books
The Game
A collection of the best AFL stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
The Game collects the best AFL stories on and off the field told by the best writers around. They delve behind the statistics, examining the players, coaches and teams that make the game.
Greg Baum brings to life the epic drawn 2010 grand final and Jake Niall dissects game styles and tells...
George Smith
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
George Smith is one of the greatest players Australian rugby has ever produced, and certainly one of the all-time best, open-side flankers in the world arena.
After becoming the fourth Wallaby and the 10th in the history of the game worldwide to reach a century of Tests, Smith went on to earn...
Seriously...You Have to Laugh
Great yarns and tall tales from the sporting fields, dressing rooms and commentary boxes of Australia
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Putting his unique spin on our sporting life, Peter FitzSimons celebrates the tall tales and true, the outrageous yarns and the knockabout humour from the footy fields, cricket grounds, dressing rooms, bars and commentary boxes of Australia.
From the clever sledges behind the bales and the...
Never Stop Believing
Heartache, hope and some very high heels
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
When Sally Obermeder woke up on 13th October 2011, she thought her life was perfect. She had a glamorous, successful career as a reporter for Today Tonight, she had a wonderful husband and she was about to give birth to her baby who she had conceived through IVF following years of struggle to conceive...
by Fiona Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
A breathtaking new novel from the bestselling author of The Mothers' Group and Wife on the Run.
Six strangers from across the world meet on the tropical island of Bali to attend a course designed to help them face their fears. Their backgrounds are as diverse as their fears - which range from...
Man in the Shadows
Cliff Hardy 11
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.'
Gareth Greenway wasn't all he seemed, but Cliff Hardy was used to that. What he wasn't used to was the shadowy world Greenway leads him into: neurosurgeons, mental patients, AIDS sufferers, all negotiating a landscape of dreams and delusions. An...
Growing Old Outrageously
A memoir of travel, food and friendship
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Two old school friends reconnect unexpectedly after thirty-five years and discover that they both love travelling - and the more exotic and far-flung the location, the better! Not having a clue whether they will get along, the eccentric pair embark on a trial journey to Morocco. That tentative beginning...
by Marlena de Blasi
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
The renovations to 34 via del Duomo now complete, Marlena de Blasi, the bestselling international author and woman with the 'fairytale life', longs to find time and space to finish a book. Lured by a friend's offer of a simple stone cottage in a remote province of western Tuscany and distant from...
Dead Man Running: An insider's story on one of the world's most feared outlaw motorcycle gangs ... The Bandidos
An insider's story on one of the world's most feared outlaw motorcycle gangs ... The Bandidos
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
A first hand account of perhaps the most powerful and influential crime group currently operating in Australia and North America. It is the first time ever that an insider has told the true and chilling story of the bike gangs that dominate the drug and illegal weapons trade. They'll come after me....
The Brotherhoods
Inside the outlaw motorcycle clubs
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Bikies consider themselves 'the last free people in society'; unrestricted by the laws that rule ordinary citizens. Yet they have strict joining rules and jealously guard their privacy. The twenty-first century has seen bikie culture move from secretive disorganised crime to far more threatening organised...
Rose
The unauthorised biography of Rose Hancock Porteous
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
For two decades, Rose Hancock Porteous has fascinated Australians. The Filipina housekeeper who became the lover and then the wife of her millionaire employer has regularly created headlines, but behind the facade of the colourful socialite there is much that has not been revealed about this fabulously...
Montsalvat
The intimate story of an Australian artists' colony
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
In the legend of King Arthur and the knights of the round table Montsalvat is the home of the Holy Grail. Australia's Montsalvat is an artists' colony in Eltham, established by the architect and artist Justus Jorgensen in 1934. It is home to over a dozen buildings, houses and halls built out of local...
Dame Joan Hammond
Love and music
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Joan Hammond lived an extraordinary life, as dramatic and deeply moving as any of the operatic roles for which she became famous Tosca, Mimi, Butterfly, Aida, Salome, Rusalka.
No stranger to success, in her youth Joan was a golfing champion, excelling at most sports. But it was her voice that...
Great Australian Stories
Legends, yarns and tall tales
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
'Great Australian Stories is true to its title as it wanders from bush track to spooky hollow, follows the path of yowies and bunyips, searches for Lasseter's Reef, meets Dad and Dave and, on a different path, Henny-Penny, and then rambles into the cities where just as many entertaining characters...