Allen Unwin imprint: 1774 books
Australian Light Horse
The campaign in the Middle East, 1916-1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Throughout history, mounted troops have been known as elite men of arms and the Australian Light Horse is a part of that legendary tradition. Part cavalry and part infantry and often recognised by the emu feathers in their slouch hats, the light horsemen were described by the official historian, H.S....
The Killer Within
Inside the World of Bradley John Murdoch
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
'Brad Murdoch is not just Brad Murdoch. He's a breed, a type. There are Murdochs all across northern Australia and they run to kind. White or beige Toyota Land Cruiser HZJ75 utility. Canvas canopy off the back with built-in flyscreen mesh. Six-pack foam esky for up front of the cab on long drives...
The Story of Rats
Their impact on us, and our impact on them
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
'Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I'll nip him in the bud.'
An English Member of Parliament
Are rats still a threat to our health and food? Do they think? Is it true that wild rats sometimes die, unwounded, from social stress? Can studies...
The Fighter
The extraordinary true story of how a Muay Thai champion survived hell on the frontline in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Paul 'Warlord' Warren was an Australian Muay Thai kick-boxing champion who was used to the physically punishing world of martial arts at its highest level. But nothing could prepare him for the torment he would face in the Australian army. One month after he arrived in Afghanistan as a soldier in...
Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady
The true story of bushrangers Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
He was the gentleman bushranger . she was the woman who rode with him. This is the true story of Captain Thunderbolt and his lady.
'Bail up!' demanded Captain Thunderbolt before he shouted the bar with the inn keeper's own profits. Driven into banditry by injustice, this colonial Robin Hood,...
Descent into Hell
The fall of Singapore - Pudu and Changi - the Thai Burma railway
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
'No man has the command of words needed for conveying.the courage and the cowardice; the loyalty and the treachery; the dedication and the dereliction; the strengths and the frailties; the kindness and the brutality; the integrity and depravity; the magnificence and the enormities of men, as revealed...
Ralph Honner
Kokoda Hero
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Ralph Honner: Kokoda Hero is the story of one of Australia's great World War II battalion commanders.
Honner fought as a junior officer in the first and triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobruk and Derna. He then took part in the heartbreaking and disastrous campaigns in Greece and...
by Jarad Henry
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
When the sun lowers itself into the bay and leaves the sky over St Kilda a dark crimson, it's beautiful and threatening at the same time. But the tourists don't see it that way. They only see the pretty colours and the calm water, the restaurants and the palm trees. They don't see the stabbings and...
Mr Big
Lennie McPherson and his life of crime
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
When Nellie McPherson reached her eightieth year, her clan got together to give the sprightly grandmother a birthday bash. Her youngest son, Lennie, wasn't invited. He turned up nevertheless, with a small white rabbit. Instead of giving it to his mother, Lennie put one large hand around the rabbit's...
Betrayed
The shocking story of two undercover cops
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
'I've cheated, lied and deceived people. I've ruined marriages, ruined lives, ruined relationships, ruined the health of others, not to mention my own.'
What is it really like to live as an undercover cop? Joe and Jessie joined the NSW Police believing they could make a difference, but their...
Evil Life
The true story of the Calabrian Mafia in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
The Calabrian mafia is Australia's oldest, largest and most ruthless crime syndicate, trafficking drugs worth billions of dollars and laundering the proceeds through sophisticated international networks.
Enforcing discipline with age-old tools of violence and intimidation, the Calabrians have...
The Griffith Wars
The powerful true story of Donald Mackay's murder and the town that stood up to the Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
The assassination of Donald Mackay was meant to solve a problem for the mafia. Instead it roused the law-abiding citizens of Griffith to fight against the powerful criminal elements who had made their town synonymous with drugs and murder.
Drawing on the personal diaries and memories of Terry...
The Lost Battalions
A battle that could not be won. An island that could not be defended. An ally that could not be trusted.
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
They were thrown into a hopeless fight against an overwhelming enemy. Later, hundreds died as prisoners of war on the Thai-Burma Railway and in the freezing coal mines of Taiwan and Japan. Through it all, wrote Weary Dunlop, they showed 'fortitude beyond anything I could have believed possible'.
Until...
by Susan Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
'Confronting the inevitable desiccation of her ageing body, a woman reflects on her life as an erotic adventurer, and through these vivid stories of the flesh, a mind and a soul emerge in full. Susan Johnson is a writer in her prime, and her most enduring love affair is with language itself. ' Geraldine...