Allen Unwin imprint: 1774 books
by Moira McKinnon
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
A stunning novel of terror, love and survival in the greatest wilderness on earth. A lyrical, heartbreaking epic debut.
An isolated property in the middle of Western Australia, just after the Great War. An English heiress has just given birth and unleashed hell. Weakened and grieving, she realises...
by Adrian Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
In this controversial new book, Adrian Gilbert reveals the real reason why Charles married Diana and how, through her, the Royal Family was reconnected with the line of King Arthur, the guardians of the Holy Grail. It's a story which goes back to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Joseph of Arimathea,...
Tunnel Rats vs the Taliban
How Aussie sappers led the way in the war on terror
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
They were young, they were tough and they were everywhere. They were both the backyard builders and the frontline troops in Australia's war against the Taliban.
This is the powerful story of the sappers, the Army engineers in Afghanistan whose raw courage and skills were inspired by the original...
by Miriam Estensen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
'In Estensen, Flinders has at last found his Boswell.' Paul Brunton, The Weekend Australian
Estensen's book is a work of painstaking scholarship, worn lightly it will be an enduring contribution to Australian history.' Gillian Dooley, Australian Book Review
Estensen gives us the ups...
by Louise Allan
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
As children, Ida loves looking after her younger sister, Nora, but when their beloved father dies in 1926, everything changes. The two young girls move in with their grandmother who is particularly encouraging of Nora's musical talent. Nora eventually follows her dream of a brilliant musical career,...
Sounds from Silence
Graeme Clark and the Bionic Ear Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
'In those early weeks post op, he had been aware of sound but not of speech. We were sitting in the sofa having a lesson, practising 'a' when suddenly it came out loud and clear. Then, hardly daring, I said 'i'. He followed very softly. I went on: 'e', 'o', u', and each time Teddy followed. I felt...
Too Soon, Too Late
How a family turned its own tragedies into a remarkable crusade to keep all our children safe
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
On a winter's night in July 2012, Kathy and Ralph Kelly received a phone call no parent should ever have to answer. It was the Emergency department of a Sydney hospital, telling them that their eldest son Thomas had been in an altercation and that they were to come at once. Thomas had been coward...
Defending the Lion City
The armed forces of Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
Singapore is located in the heart of the Muslim Malay world, yet 78 per cent of its population is ethnically Chinese. The prosperous city-state relies on outside sources for virtually all its water and food; it has no access to the high seas, on which it depends for 85 per cent of its trade, except...
by Eleanor Jacka, Fred Jacka
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Sir Douglas Mawson, Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer, made four trips to the Antarctic: in 1907-09 with Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition; in 1911-14, having declined to join Scott's ill-fated Antarctic journey, as leader of the Australasian Antarctic expedition; and twice between 1929...
by Kristen Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
'His courage, determination, skill and his undoubtedly outstanding ability as a leader are an inspiration to his wing and worthy of the highest praise.' Extract from Distinguished Service Order citation
Clive Caldwell was officially attributed with more than 27 victories and became Australia's...
Possums and Bird Dogs
Australian Army Aviation's 161 Reconnaissance Flight in South Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Shit! I've been hit!'
Captain Bevan Smith's inadvertent broadcast alerted the troops on the ground that a Viet Cong ambush had been triggered. The knuckles had been shot out of his left hand. Somehow he got the Sioux chopper and battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Alec Preece down safely,...
Those Ragged Bloody Heroes
From the Kokoda Trail to Gona Beach 1942
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
The Kokoda Trail is part of Australian military folklore.
During July to September 1942 the Japanese set about the capture of Port Moresby by an overland crossing of the Owen Stanley Range, and a landing in Milne Bay. To oppose a force of 10,000 crack Japanese troops on the Kokoda Trail, the...
Why Is Uranus Upside Down?
And other questions about the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Have you ever wondered what dark matter is or why galaxies collide? Or why the Moon is gradually drifting away from Earth? Space is really, really big, as Douglas Adams once pointed out, and there is no better guide to it than Fred Watson, astronomer to the stars.
Fred Watson has taken the...
Southern Trident
Strategy, history and the rise of Australian naval power
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
The development of Australia's navy has been a vital factor in its history and evolution as a nation in the century since Federation. Australia has a maritime environment and its national interests stretch far beyond its coastline.
Southern Trident examines the influences on the rise of Australian...