Allen Unwin: 2237 books
Inclusive Growth in Australia
Social policy as economic investment
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Inclusive Growth in Australia overturns two decades of assumptions that social policy is wasteful and a source of dependency. It reflects a global resurgence of the understanding that an active and effective social policy regime is vital not only for a flourishing society, but also for a strong economy....
by Leigh Hobbs
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
LEIGH HOBBS: AUSTRALIA'S CHILDREN'S LAUREATE 2016-17
Mr Badger is in charge of special events at a splendid old London hotel. When he and his assistant, Miss Pims, prepare for Miss Sylvia Smothers-Carruthers' seventh birthday party, little does Mr Badger know just what is in store for Sylvia,...
by Elizabeth Honey
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
The warts-and-all story of a Grade 6 school camp (including the funny, rude and naughty bits), featuring a loner called Jonah and an explosive teacher called The Bomb.
by Nicole Hurley-Moore
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Years ago, Violet Beckett made the mistake of falling for the wrong McKellan brother and both she and her younger sister, Lily, paid the price. Now eight years later, fate has brought Violet and her daughter, Holly, back to the house Violet grew up in.
As soon as Violet runs into James 'Mac'...
Missing in Action
Australia's World War I Grave Services, an astonishing true story of misconduct, fraud and hoaxing
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
By the end of World War I, 45,000 Australians had died on the Western Front. Some bodies had been hastily buried mid-battle in massed graves; others were mutilated beyond recognition. Often men were simply listed as 'Missing in Action' because nobody knew for sure.
Lieutenant Robert Burns was...
by Alex Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD
A terrific tale of love and redemption that captivates from the first line.' Nicholas Shakespeare, author of The Dancer Upstairs
Betrayed by her husband, Annabelle Beck retreats from Melbourne to her old family home in tropical North Queensland...
Betsy and the Emperor
The true story of Napoleon, a pretty girl, a Regency rake and an Australian colonial misadventure
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, he was sent into exile on Saint Helena. He became an 'eagle in a cage', reduced from the most powerful figure in Europe to a prisoner on a rock in the South Atlantic. But the fallen emperor was charmed by the pretty teenage daughter of...
by Bob Hodge, John O'Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Refugees. Border protection. Ethnic gangs. Terrorism. History wars. Pauline Hanson.
Australia's faith in multiculturalism has been shaken by fierce attacks from its enemies and a sense of crisis among its friends. Multiculturalism has become a political tool to win votes and generate community...
Taking God to School
The end of Australia's egalitarian education?
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Fewer Australians now practise a religion or believe in God than ever. Yet our governments increasingly push conservative Christianity on our children.
Nearly forty per cent of secondary students attend a private school, which are overwhelmingly Christian. Canberra funds them heavily, and sends...
The Helen 100
How I took my waxer's advice and cured heartbreak by going on 100 dates in less than a year
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
According to her range of dating profiles, Helen Razer was a 41-, 43-, or maybe 44-year-old woman. According to this book, she was heartbroken enough to require a crack team of doctors. But there is no hospital for the freshly deceived. Instead, there's The Helen 100.
One dry Melbourne summer...
Wives, Mistresses and Matriarchs
Asian women today
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1998
This is the untold story of the women of Asia. It is not a tale of the submissive oriental beauties of western fiction, but the true stories of prime ministers, factory labourers, business magnates, mistresses and prostitutes. It is a true story of extraordinary power and humiliating poverty in a...
by Mark Greenwood, Terry Denton
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
SHORT-LISTED: CBCA Book of the Year, Eve Pownell Award for Information Books, 2014
He emerged from the cave of bats with the name given to him by his people. He was Jandamarra - a man of power who could appear and disappear like a ghost.
Set in the Kimberley region in north-west Australia,...
by Terry Denton
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
If you like calm, sensible,
fluffy stories, then
GO AWAY!
Because this is a story about a LUMP OF ROCK!!
The dialogue is not very interesting because lumps of rock don't talk!
I bet you didn't know that. I bet you thought all the rocks and little stones chatted amongst...
Kijana
The Real Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
At age 18 Jess Martin was the youngest person ever to sail around the world nonstop and unassisted. What on earth do you do to top that?
Kijana was Jesse's next dream. Jesse and four friends embarked on a three-year journey of a lifetime, searching for paradise and wild adventures in exotic...