Allen Unwin: 2237 books
by Kay Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Who were the female convicts? What kinds of lives did they lead in a new society half a world away from home?
Convict Women looks beyond the conventional images to draw a new and often surprising picture of convict women's experiences in a strange and harsh country. Beginning with the story...
Dispossession
Black Australians and white invaders
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1996
Aboriginal and immigrant Australians have shared this continent for 200 years. Nineteenth-century writers were aware of the importance of the Aboriginal presence, but when the colonists began to write their own history the Aborigines were erased from the account. Recently, this 'history' has been...
The Outcasts of Melbourne
Essays in social history
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1985
Behind the glittering image of 'Marvellous Melbourne' there existed in the popular imagination another, very different, picture of the colonial metropolis. This was the city of 'low life', of crowded slums, poverty, disease and vice.
The nine essays in The Outcasts of Melbourne attempt to reveal...
Fire in the Blood
The epic tale of Frank Gardiner and Australia's other bushrangers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
He was the champion of the have-nots. He was a gentleman to the core. And he was Australia's most notorious bushranger.
One hundred and fifty years ago, Frank Gardiner rose from nowhere to become the most famous outlaw in the country. His gang included Ben Hall, Johnny Gilbert and a team of...
Banjo
The story of the man who wrote Waltzing Matilda
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
In 1886, a nervous young lawyer and aspiring writer met the editor of a radical new paper to discuss the possibility of publishing some poetry. He thought his 'fractured verses' would not stand the test of time. The editor believed otherwise and in the years that followed, Banjo Paterson became Australia's...
by Jim Haynes
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
They were shipped like sheep when the dawn was grey; And as the ships left Mudros Bay They squatted and perched where'er they could, And they laughed and swore as we knew they would. Knew they would- Knew they would; They laughed and swore as we knew they would. - Henry Lawson
When 26,000 Anzac...
by Jim Haynes
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
'It seemed like a good idea...at the time.' - the lament of many a morning after
Rum, beer, scotch, wine, beer and more beer. For nearly 250 years Australian history has been punctuated with stories of booze and boozing. From Cook's voyages and the First Fleet to the Rum Rebellion, the mutiny...
by Jim Haynes
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Everyone knows at least one limerick. Here are all the limericks you can remember, and many you can't recall but wished you could - from childhood ones to some very adult ones.
Jim Haynes has arranged more than a thousand limericks according to type. Witty and whimsical, childish and charming,...
The Strength of a Nation
Six years of Australians fighting for the nation and defending the homefront in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Nearly one million Australians out of a total population of just seven million people joined the armed forces in World War II. They made an enormous contribution to the allied war effort; they inflicted the first land defeat of the Japanese at Milne Bay in New Guinea during that war and played a crucial...
Scorched Earth
Australia's secret plan for total war under Japanese invasion in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
In 1942 the threat of Japanese invasion hung over Australia. The men were away overseas, fighting on other fronts, and civilians were left unprotected at home.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Japanese advance south, Prime Minister Curtin ordered state governments to prepare. From...
A Very Rude Awakening
The night the Japanese midget subs came to Sydney Harbour
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
On the night of 31 May 1942, Sydney was doing what it does best: partying. The theatres, restaurants, dance halls, illegal gambling dens, clubs and brothels offered plenty of choice to roistering sailors, soldiers and airmen on leave in Australia's most glamorous city. The war seemed far away. Newspapers...
D-Day New Guinea
The extraordinary story of the battle for Lae and the greatest combined airborne and amphibious operation of the Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
'Java is heaven, Burma is hell, but you never come back alive from New Guinea' - Japanese military saying
The capture of Lae was the most complex operation for the Australian army in the Second World War. In many ways it was also a rehearsal for the D-Day invasion of France, with an amphibious...
Charles Bean's Gallipoli
Illustrated
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Charles Bean and Gallipoli are forever closely bound. Serving as the official Australian war correspondent from the landing to the evacuation, Charles Bean was able to dedicate his days and nights to witnessing and recording the events that would form the Anzac legend. In writing his diaries, Bean...
by Michael Gilding
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1991
Once everyone knew what the family was. It was something natural and without a history - mum, dad and the kids.
Divorce, women in the workforce, de facto relationships and the sexual liberation movements have fractured the old certainties. Nowadays there is more talk about the family than ever,...