Allen Unwin: 2237 books
by Thalia Kalkipsakis
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
As I leaped and kicked, taking care to be perfectly in line, I felt a quickening in my chest, a secret dance in my heart. I just had to get through rehearsal and the game itself, then I would finally get to talk to him . . .
Saph's life is pretty perfect. At sixteen, she's already doing what...
Crew
The story of the men who flew RAAF Lancaster J for Jig
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
On the evening of 24 February 1944, RAAF Lancaster bomber J for Jig took off from an airfield in Lincolnshire. On board was a crew of seven young men-five Australians, two Scots-whose mission was to bomb factories in Schweinfurt, Germany. But J for Jig never reached its target. It was shot down in...
Burn, and Other Stories
Cliff Hardy 16
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.'
Private investigator Cliff Hardy is nothing if not versatile, and this collection of his cases sees him mixing with the good, the bad and the quirky. He tracks delinquent arsonists, hired killers and missing girlfriends, protects eye surgeons and radio announcers, solves old crimes and helps old underworld mates.
The Reporter and the Warlords
An Australian at large in China's republican revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
Set against a background of the birth of modern China, this is the true story of Australian journalist, Bill Donald, and his role in those turbulent events in the first half of the 20th century.
With no agenda other than an unshakeable belief in China's potential, Donald was drawn into the...
by Greg Barrett, Stephen Page
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
2014 marks Bangarra Dance Theatre's twenty-fifth year. Clan honours this milestone and those people who have inspired Bangarra over the years. By having its feet in both worlds of old and modern, Bangarra creates contemporary theatrical experiences that are influenced by timeless stories and customs....
by Kenneth Cook
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
What do you do if you're confronted by a kangaroo that won't give up the booze, or a pilot who faints at the sight of animals, or an ostrich suffering from homicidal mania? If you're Kenneth Cook the answer's easy: you panic.
In this, the sequel to The Killer Koala and Wombat Revenge, Kenneth...
by Sarah Hay
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
When did it all start? This feeling of being beneath water; slow and cumbersome, every movement met with something thicker than air, some form of resistance she was unable to see.
On a rundown station in the remote top end of Australia, life for Susannah is isolated and difficult. Susannah...
Back of Beyond
Hugh Tindall's stories of a shearing life in outback Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Hugh Tindall is an ordinary man who has lived through extraordinary times in outback Queensland. From a poor man's selection on the Diamantina in 1928 to owning six large stations with his family, from shearing his first 100 sheep a day at the age of sixteen to organising sheds in the long running...
Wild Weeds and Windflowers
The life and letters of Katharine Susannah Prichard
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
In this moving biography, Ric Throssell, who was himself an accomplished writer, brings to life the story of his mother Katharine Susannah Prichard, drawing on his close personal relationship and his memories of her lifetime.
Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883-1969) was one of Australia's most...
The Unusual Life of Edna Walling
A biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Edna Walling designed over 300 gardens between 1920 and 1960 when most women were homemakers. Today her gardens are still considered to add value to real estate. Her achievements and the gardens themselves are well documented, yet despite the fact she was a fabulous self-publicist and a very unusual...
Medical Murder
Disturbing cases of doctors who kill
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
In January 2000, world-wide headlines announced that Dr Harold Shipman, an English GP, had been found guilty of murdering fifteen of his patients. Before the trial, many assumed Shipman was an over-zealous doctor accused of going too far in providing comfort to dying elderly patients. This was not...
Journey to Health
How I lost half my body weight and found a new way of life
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Social-media sensation Simone Anderson's weight peaked at 169 kg. When she finally faced up to how overweight she was, she knew something had to change.
Simone shared her progress on Facebook, to keep herself accountable, and her fan base grew rapidly as she underwent gastric-sleeve surgery...
Wisdom For Your Life
What I have learnt from those who have passed over
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
As a therapist and frontline social worker in a busy emergency department, every day of her working life Katrina faces psychological trauma, death and grief. What makes her story so powerful is that Katrina also communicates and receives messages from the souls of those who have died. Using her remarkable...
Great Bush Stories
Colourful yarns and true tales from life on the land
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
'Graham Seal has the knack of the storyteller' - Warren Fahey AM
The tradition of yarns from the bush goes back to the earliest days in Australia. Colourful rural characters and dramatic incidents parade through our history and folklore, entertaining and appalling us in equal measure.
Graham...