Allen Unwin: 2237 books
Great Australian Journeys
Gripping stories of intrepid explorers, dramatic escapes and foolhardy adventures
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
'Graham Seal has the knack of the storyteller' - Warren Fahey AM
Australia's history is one of epic journeys, intrepid explorers, and mysterious disappearances in far flung places. From perilous sea voyages to the distant south land, to forays across vast deserts on horseback, they are stories...
by Bronwyn Sell
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Kiwi Heroes brings together the tales of 50 of New Zealand's bravest people. Some of the people featured are household names - some are barely known outside their own households. Some have become heroes in a moment, some over a lifetime. Some are professionals who have gone beyond the call of duty;...
We Band of Brothers
A biography of Ralph Honner, soldier and statesman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
We Band of Brothers is the story of Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Honner, one of Australia's great World War II battalion commanders.
Honner fought as a junior officer in the first and triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobruk and Derna. He then took part in the heartbreaking and disastrous...
Secret Army
An elite force, a secret mission, a fleet of Model-T Fords, a far flung corner of WWI
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
It was arguably the greatest fighting force in the entirety of the Great War. They were the very best: hardened, fearless, decorated, cocky fighting men, all veterans of Gallipoli and the Western Front. Yet this elite force secretly assembled in London in late 1917 remains an enigma even today.
Barry...
Postcards from the Other Side: True stories of the afterlife
True stories of the afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Powerful glimpses into the afterlife. What happens when someone dies? Does the way they die impact their experience of life after death? Can they still communicate with us? Do they continue to take an interest in our lives? Can they experience our love? Celebrated psychic mediums Ezio and Michelle...
Psychic Kids
True life stories of children who see beyond the everyday
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Something very interesting is happening. Children are becoming more intuitive, more psychic.
While there have always been a handful of children who have premonitions, can see those who have passed over, or have 'imaginary' friends, there are more of these children around now. Life can be hard...
by Matilda Rice
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Written in her chatty and approachable style, this is a refreshing, positive guide to life for young women. Matilda emphasises having fun and being yourself.
She includes her favourite recipes and some great exercises and workouts you can do easily at home plus heaps of great advice on skincare,...
Dealing With Dementia
A guide to Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
We live in an ageing world. The average life expectancy in Australia is now far beyond the allotted three-score years and ten . Age-related conditions are increasingly impacting on our community, with enormous personal, social and economic costs.
Around 165 000 people in Australia are now suffering...
Mawson's Huts
The Birthplace of Australia's Antarctic Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
The Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) of 1911-14, led by the young Australian geologist Dr Douglas Mawson, who was later knighted for his efforts, was not only one of the last great voyages of the Heroic Era, it was by far the most successful of its time in scientific terms. The results of the...
The Devil in Tim
Penelope's travels in Tasmania
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
In a word: delightful - Herald Sun
Prepared to be charmed. - Canberra Times
When Tim Bowden went back to Tasmania to explore his state of origin for the first time in many years, he was reminded of his adolescent assertion that Tasmania is the testicle of Australia, suffusing the mainland...
Larrikins in Khaki
Tales of irreverence and courage from World War II Diggers
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2019
With a reputation for being hard to discipline, generosity to their comrades, frankness and sticking it up any sign of pomposity, Australian soldiers were a wild and irreverent lot, even in the worst of circumstances during World War II.
In Larrikins in Khaki, Tim Bowden has collected compelling...
Down Under in the Top End
Penelope heads north
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Tim Bowden loves a good yarn. He also loves travelling with his wife Ros, their four-wheel drive and camping trailer, and setting up camp under bush skies. In Down Under in the Top End he combines all three to take us on one of the world's great road trips, from Australia's east coast to the Top End...
Jack's Journey
An Anzac's descent into death, disaster and controversy at Gallipoli
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Jack's Journey is the moving and extraordinary story of an unknown ANZAC action at Gallipoli during the period of the Landing on 1 and 2 May, 1915. Kit Cullen began tracing Jack Collyer's story using his three diaries and his service record. The diaries cover the voyage from Australia to training...
by Peter Lalor
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
'There are murders and there are murders. There are bodies and there are bodies, and then there's what lies waiting behind the front door of the little brick house with its blinds drawn and air conditioner droning on, working against the oppressive Hunter Valley heat. A glimpse into the dark, cockroach...