Allen Unwin imprint: 1774 books

Emil and Hannah live their lives amid the turmoil of twentieth-century history. Emil, a German veteran of the Great War, has returned home to a disturbed nation. As inflation and unemployment edge the country near collapse, Emil's involvement with the resistance ultimately forces him from his family...

Peter Corris' world weary but always charismatic hero Cliff Hardy has long been established as Australia's favourite investigator. Often bloodied but never bowed in this latest gripping novel, Hardy is in pursuit of missing millions from Sydney to the Pacific Islands. When rich, attractive Lorraine...

Aboriginal people are grossly over-represented before the courts and in our gaols. Despite numerous inquiries, State and Federal, and the considerable funds spent trying to understand this phenomenon, nothing has changed. Indigenous people continue to be apprehended, sentenced, incarcerated and die...

To find freedom, you must leave behind everything you've ever known. It is 2011. You want nothing more than to be a journalist in Somalia like your aunty. But the truth can be dangerous - and when you and your little sister are left alone, you find yourself facing life-and-death choices at...

Everything changes for Aster the night her brother dies. Suddenly she's the only hope of the family, and instead of an early marriage to a boy from her small village in Pakistan, her parents decide to send her to the government high school in her brother's place. Aster is excited about this unexpected...

Lance Dillon is owner of a new cattle station on the southern fringe of Australia's Arnhem Land. When an Aboriginal hunting party targets Dillon's prize bull for a ritual killing, and then spears Dillon in the shoulder, it's clear they want him off their traditional land. Under the merciless rays...

Steven Muir, August Spiess and his daughter Gertrude, and Lang Tzu all acknowledge a restless sense of cultural displacement, an ambivalence in their relations with the culture of European Australia. Steven left England for Australia as a young man and his one attempt at returning is unsuccessful....

Shaozhen has no intention of staying in his remote Henan village and becoming another poor farmer: he'll finish school, and then, hopefully, work in a factory in one of the major cities, just like his father. But when Shaozhen returns home for the summer holidays, imagining days filled with nothing...

They're flying me across the country to fight a hag. They think to reason with. But I know to fight. An iron town is dying. Inside a fibro bungalow in a horizon-wide mirage Belle Furphy is watching from her kitchen window while her town is dismantled around her and trucked south. Ignoring...

'We arrived at the tower at the top of the castle. The door was locked. We can't go into that room, said Ho Hum. Not ever.' Tashi tells Jack about his scariest adventure ever, when the mysterious stranger Bluebeard moved into the old castle. Nobody knew what a monster he was. Then the wicked...

'Baba Yaga reached over and pinched his arm. You look a nice juicy boy.' A house on chicken legs? A witch who eats children? Jack's dad can't believe Tashi's wild stories, about Baba Yaga.and the wicked Baron, who traps him as a prisoner for the fearsome River Pirate. Tashi has more daredevil adventures to tell. Read all about him in the other Tashi books.

'The flying carpet bucked like a wild horse - trying to throw me off.' Jack is bursting to hear Tashi's fantastic stories about the sly genie and his three wishes.and what Tashi does when he comes face to face with the ferocious war lord again. Tashi is always ready for anything. Follow his bold adventures in the other Tashi books.

'The demon's dagger teeth glinted. I'm going to tie you up and tip these spiders over you.' Spiders and snakes and rats? The slippery demons are going to make Tashi talk.and there's more trouble for Tashi when the fierce River Pirate returns without a warning. Tashi's life is one big adventure. Read all about him in the other Tashi books.

I'm Henrietta P. Hoppenbeek the First. I have a baby brother, two white mice, a chocolate-coloured dog, a woolly mammoth, two long green socks with toes, one pickle-eating best friend, a bathtub for sailing in, and definitely a huge HUGE amount of discoveries to discover. And if anyone tells you I...