Allen Unwin imprint: 1774 books
The Bassett Road Machine-Gun Murders
New Zealand's gangster killings
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
On Saturday morning, 7 December 1963, Eric Lewis called around to his property in Bassett Road, Remuera, Auckland, to collect the rent. He was not prepared for the scene that greeted him when he opened the door: his two tenants, George Walker and Kevin Speight, had been violently murdered days before.
The...
Dogs at War
Triumph, treachery and the truth
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
For the past ten years the Canterbury-Bankstown Rugby League Club (the Bulldogs) has reeled from one crisis to the next. Once known as the 'Family Club' and the 'Entertainers', the Bulldogs have since figured in many off-field dramas including rape allegations, executive reshuffles and rorting the...
Barassi
The biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
His is a biblical tale, appropriate for a game that's a religion.
Ron Barassi is modern football's first born son and saviour. His father wore the No. 31 then was tragically killed in the Second World War months after playing in a premiership. Ron Barassi junior was raised in the Australian...
Kokoda Wallaby: Stan Bisset: the rugby international who became a Kokoda hero
Stan Bisset: the rugby international who became a Kokoda hero
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
The first full biography of the rugby legend and World War II hero. 'A great story that is long overdue in the telling.' -Paul Ham. 'Rugby is fortunate to have so many role models of the highest order. Stan Bisset is at the top of the game.' -John Eales former Wallabies captain. 'Stan Bisset like...
Absent Without Leave
The private war of Private Stanley Livingston
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Absent Without Leave follows three wide-eyed young Australian men from their enlistment at the Sydney Showground in 1940 to the war in the Middle East and jungle warfare in the Asia-Pacific. Private Stanley Livingston and his two best mates, Roy Lonsdale and Gordon Oxman, would be brothers-in-law...
Hardmen
Rugby League's Roughest, Toughest and Most Courageous Players
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
When the going gets tough, the tough get tougher.
The ranks of rugby league around the world have been liberally peppered with hardmen. With violence that would never be tolerated off the footy field, the game has always been rough, tough and dangerous. Stiff-arm tackles, headbutts, spear tackles...
Inside the Wallabies
The real story, the players, the politics and the games from 1908 to today
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Dally Messenger, Ken Catchpole, Dick Thornett, David Campese, John Eales, Nick Farr-Jones, Cyril Towers, Mark Ella, George Smith, Dave Brockhoff, Andrew Slack, Ray Price, John Hipwell, Jason Little, Phil Kearns, Will Genia.
Herbert 'Paddy' Moran was mesmerised by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini....
by Mike Coward
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1990
With fervour, warmth and humour, Cricket Beyond the Bazaar examines Australian cricket on the Indian subcontinent, focusing on the triumphs and controversies of the last 10 years.
Leading cricket writer Mike Coward gives the first intimate eyewitness account of the Madras tied Test, the 1987...
Champions
The world's greatest cricketers speak
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
Clive Lloyd: 'I really think that sportsmen have a chance of changing how the world thinks; how peoples in the world think about one another.'
Shane Warne: 'To play and perform at your best as an individual is about being prepared, about happiness and feeling fresh. You've got to have a clear...
Amen
How Adam Scott won the US Masters and broke the curse of Augusta National
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
The US Masters: the most famous tournament of all. A global TV audience of 150 million, a string of legendary winners . and a curse for Australian golfers.
From Jim Ferrier blowing a huge lead in 1950 to Greg Norman's litany of disasters over decades, the Masters constantly turned its back...
by Karly Lane
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
When city naturopath Rilee Summers meets gorgeous farmer Dan Kincaid, sparks fly. A whirlwind romance follows, and the next thing Rilee knows she's married and living on her husband's family property in a small rural community.
Never one to shy from a challenge, Rilee is determined to win over...
Taking Care of Business
Cliff Hardy 28
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.'
I was starting to get interested. As someone who thinks stockmarkets, futures trading and currency speculation ought to be illegal, I was aware that I was radically out of step with the times. I dimly grasped what Marriott was saying, enough to understand...
by Mandy Sayer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Velocity tells the moving, painful but often hilarious story of Mandy Sayer's childhood and adolescence, a life lived on the edges - of society, of poverty, of certainty, of love. Filled with beautifully realised descriptions of life seen through a child's eyes - a child who gradually comes to realise...
Comeback
Cliff Hardy 37
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.'
Cliff Hardy has his PI licence back - but does he still have what it takes to cut it on the mean streets of Sydney?
Cliff reckons the skills are still there, if a little rusty, and actor Bobby Forrest's case looks promising. Bobby's a nice-enough...