Allen Unwin imprint: 1774 books
Infernal Triangle
Conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan and The Levant - Eyewitness reports from the September 11 decade
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
It's been ten years since Al-Qaeda demolished the World Trade Center in New York on 11 September 2001. One of the most pivotal events in the last fifty years, it was a dramatic moment in which, having previously vanquished the threat of Russian Communism, the USA discovered that it had a new enemy...
Journeys With the Black Dog
Inspirational stories of bringing depression to heel
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Depression can be a dark and lonely experience: sharing with a friend can make all the difference.
In Journeys with the Black Dog many people share their stories of living with depression. Personal stories of first symptoms, the path to getting diagnosed, the confusion and frustration, and...
Mastering Bipolar Disorder
An insider's guide to managing mood swings and finding balance
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2008
A great insight from a sufferer's perspective I hope people draw strength from reading how others deal with this condition. You can see that it is a constant battle living with bipolar, but with the right help and self-management the disorder can be controlled.'
Andrew Johns, former Australian...
Why Can't I Look the Way I Want?
Overcoming eating issues
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
When you have an eating issue it can feel like the loneliest, hardest place in the world to be, but it doesn't have to be this way. No one knows this better than author Melinda Hutchings, who battled anorexia for three years. Drawing on her own experience, as well as other people's, Melinda openly...
by Shamini Flint, Sally Heinrich
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Marcus is a Maths whiz who is not good at sport. His dad is a self-help author who thinks Marcus can achieve anything he sets his mind to, with hilarious results. In illustrated diary format, Marcus's gentle, satiric humour and comic drawings will have readers laughing out loud while learning a surprising...
by Shamini Flint, Sally Heinrich
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Marcus is a maths whiz who is not good at sport. His dad is a self-help author who thinks Marcus can achieve anything he sets his mind to, with hilarious results. In illustrated diary format, Marcus's gentle, satiric humour and comic drawings will have readers laughing out loud while learning a surprising amount about sport.
Struck by Lightning
The story of Garry Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1996
Struck by Lightning is the life story of Garry Lynch, told in his own words. Garry Lynch is the father of Anita Cobby, the nurse who was brutally murdered in Sydney, Australia in 1986. Garry's story begins in 1918 and traces his life as a runaway child in the Great Depression to being an airframe...
Ladykiller
How conman Bruce Burrell kidnapped and killed rich women for their money
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
In May 1997, mother-of-three Kerry Whelan disappears on the way to a beautician's appointment. Twenty-four hours later her husband receives a ransom letter: There will be no second chances. Follow all instructions or your wife will die.
The case sparked Australia's greatest police manhunt,...
Third Take
Australian film-makers talk
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
'Newsfront is about how we were and still are repeatedly colonised by America in different ways. Whenever we seem to get our head above the parapet, it's then knocked down again. The recent arrival of Fox Studios is doing much the same now as was done back then .' - Bob Ellis
'I think there...
by Jim Haynes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
The Big Book of Verse for Aussie Kids is the most comprehensive, authoritative and definitive book of poetry ever published in Australia for children.
In this wonderfully eclectic collection the famous rub shoulders with schoolyard rhymes, alphabets and nonsense verse. Here old favourites,...
by A. D. Hope
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This selection of A.D. Hope's poetry was published in 1992, the first in Australia since 1973. It includes pieces from all his major collections, including The Wandering Islands, first published in 1955, his subsequent collections A Late Picking, Antechinus and The Age of Reason, and Orpheus (1991)....
by Barry Jonsberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Good evening, Rob. Your first challenge follows.
These challenges have nothing to do with impressing Destry Camberwick. They are all to do with Rob Fitzgerald impressing Rob Fitzgerald. Bear that in mind at all times.
Challenge 1. You will enter the Milltown's Got Talent competition. This gives you...
by Kate Lyons
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
A unique blend of literary road movie and murder mystery.
'They dragged her out of the lake at dawn. No jaw, one eye socket like some strange fish. The water was closing and closing, the centre blank as the tissue of a scar. Then, in a place a thousand miles from the ocean, they found something...
by Thea Astley
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
'If one saw behind the faces into the hearts, one would die.'
A suburban couple have drifted into the shallows of middle-aged boredom. Their fourteen-year-old son is a stranger, meeting their attempts at love with hostile indifference. Surly at home, he is a dab hand at shoplifting and looks...