Allen Unwin imprint: 1774 books
Fair Go, Sport
Inspiring and uplifting tales of the good folks, great sportsmanship and fair play
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Sport was never meant to be complicated. No gibberish, no statistics, no talk of green-zones, black-zones, channels and percentage plays, no cheating, no grubbiness and certainly no ball-tampering.
Peter FitzSimons celebrates the good, the generous and the kind in Australian sport, the genuine...
Deep Water
Cliff Hardy 34
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction 2009
'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.'
Stripped of his private detective licence and devastated by the murder of his partner Lily Truscott, Cliff Hardy travels to the US to help Lily's brother's tilt for a world boxing title....
by Peter Corris
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1989
'The godfather of Australian crime fiction.'
Charlie Thomas, born in a humpy camp in the 1920s, learns to fight early. He fights in the backblocks of Queensland during the Depression, and in the Middle East and the Pacific in World War Two.
Charlie Thomas, decorated veteran, fights on...
See You at the Toxteth
The best of Cliff Hardy, and Corris on Crime
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2019
For almost four decades Peter Corris was known as 'the godfather of Australian crime fiction', and Cliff Hardy has been Australia's favourite private investigator since he solved his first case in 1980. This selection of stories starts with Cliff's early days driving round Glebe in his battered Falcon,...
The Last Snake Man
The remarkable true-life story of an Aussie legend and a century of snake shows
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Every Sunday for almost a century John Cann's family ran the famous snake show in a pit at La Perouse - an area once alive with tiger, brown and black snakes. After growing up with over 300 'pet' snakes in their backyard, John and his brother George took over the snake show from their parents in 1965....
by Tess Evans
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Tender, funny and memorable, Book of Lost Threads is a story about love and loss, parents and children, hope, faith and the value of simple kindness.
Moss has run away from Melbourne to Opportunity on the trail of a man she knows only by name. But her arrival sets in train events that disturb...
Passing Clouds
A winemaker's journey
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Graeme Leith-electrician, Italophile and jack of all trades-joined Melbourne's theatre collective at Carlton's famously innovative Pram Factory theatre and said, 'Let there be light.' And there was: Graeme Blundell, Jack Hibberd, Max Gillies and many others produced over 140 new Australian plays in...
by Graham Seal
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Yarns, legends, myths, jokes and anecdotes are our national lifeblood. The home-grown and borrowed tales, told and re-told over generations, offer an insight into the larger national story of which every Australian has a part.
Was Breaker Morant the Gatton murderer? What happened to Sniffling...
Lost Relations
Fortunes of my family in Australia's Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
'I did not look for skeletons in my family's cupboard, but once the cupboard was open, they simply fell out.'
A widow and her eight older children are uprooted from their Hampshire farm in 1850, and thrown together on an emigrant ship with 38 distressed needlewomen from London. How they came...
Missing Christopher
A mother's story of tragedy, grief and love
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
As seen on Australian Story
Christopher was seventeen and had everything to live for. He was smart, charismatic, loving, and deeply loved, and a champion rugby player. Yet he was struggling. Diagnosed a year earlier with depression and severe anxiety, he hid his fears from family and friends....
Screen Media
Analysing Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Screen Media offers screen enthusiasts the analytical and theoretical vocabulary required to articulate responses to film and television. The authors emphasise the importance of 'thinking on both sides of the screen'. They show how to develop the skills to understand and analyse how and why a screen...
by Anna Yeatman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
Activists - protecting rainforests, demanding increased childcare, developing local community housing, campaigning for AIDS funding or protecting consumers - are as much part of the political landscape as the media, parliament, peak industry groups, political parties or trade unions. This collection...
Bureaucrats, Technocrats, Femocrats
Essays on the contemporary Australian state
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1990
This collection of essays in political sociology and public policy contests some of the fundamental features of the contemporary State as it is manifested in Australia. It explores themes such as the development of the complex interventionist State, characterised by the proliferation of its activities...
A Bit Mental
One man's mission to Lilo the Waikato and Live More Awesome
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Jimi Hunt is a man who has spent most of his life doing ridiculous things for his own amusement. Things like building the country's biggest waterslide, playing golf through the streets of downtown Auckland, and holding an alternative summer Olympics including events such as sandcastle building and...