Allen Unwin imprint: 1774 books
Call Me Cruel
A story about murder and the dangerous power of lies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In the four months of their affair, Kylie Labouchardiere and Paul Wilkinson exchanged over 20,000 text messages. She was a trainee nurse; he worked in the New South Wales Police Force. Although Wilkinson eventually killed his lover to save his marriage, his main weapon was always words. He was a frighteningly...
Living Low Paid
The dark side of prosperous Australia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Even in an international downturn, Australia is a prosperous country. Yet many Australians are working more for less and struggling to meet their basic needs, despite being employed.
Living Low Paid investigates the Orwellian vision unfolding, often behind closed doors, in Australia's working...
by Jesse Martin
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
'Your courage and determination are an inspirational example for all young people to follow.' Bill Clinton, former president of the United States
'What you have done makes me proud to be a human being.' Ben Harper, musician
'I was a member of a large community at the start who thought...
by Stuart Cunningham, Sue Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Traditional media are being reshaped by digital technologies. The funding model for quality journalism has been undermined by the drift of advertising online, demarcations between different forms of media are rapidly fading, and audiences have fragmented. We can catch up with our favourite TV show...
How To Win Competitions
Everything you need to know to win a fortune
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Every year in Australia billions yes billions of dollars worth of cash and prizes are up for grabs, cash and prizes you could be in the running for!
You've seen those little stickers on everything from your tissue box to the cat's dinner and that DVD you rented the other night, almost begging...
Dark Victory
How a government lied its way to political triumph
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Dark Victory is not only a fascinating description of past events: between the lines there are dark portents of repercussions yet to come.'
John Button, The Age
Marr and Wilkinson have pulled together the whole confronting tale of how through iron will, subterfuge, disregard for conventions...
Great Australian World Firsts
The things we made, the things we did
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Did you know that Australians were actually the first in the world to:
* put wine in cardboard casks
* explore both the Arctic and Antarctic by air
* invent a portable pacemaker
* manufacture and market the one-piece bathing suit
* develop the wire-guided missile?
Australians...
Firepower
The most spectacular fraud in Australian history
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
A magic pill that cuts fuel consumption and reduces emissions that was the miracle promised by Tim Johnston's company, Firepower.
Everyone believed him; prime ministers and presidents, doctors and diplomats, business leaders and sporting heroes - even ASIC the corporate watchdog - went along...
No Ordinary Deal
Unmasking the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
'This valuable volume of essays shines the light on the secretive process of free trade negotiations and demonstrates the urgent need for greater public and parliamentary scrutiny.' - Senator Bob Brown, Australian Greens
'The USA is driving a Pacific trading agreement that deserves much more...
A Month of Sundays
How to go travelling without leaving town
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
At 7 a.m. on Monday 1 September 2003, the day Lucy and I celebrated our eighth not-married-but-together anniversary, we were in bed with our ten-month-old daughter Bibi lying chaperone between us when the crash of breaking glass startled us awake. Bibi wailed. I jumped out of bed and crept to the...
Bob Brown
Gentle revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
To many Australians, Bob Brown remains a beacon of hope. Hope for a better environment, hope for a more compassionate Australia, hope for a better world.
Bob Brown: Gentle Revolutionary is a candid, compelling and very personal account of the man who took the Greens from the political wilderness...
Desert Boys
Australians at war from Beersheba to Tobruk and El Alamein
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
'As gritty as it is real. An amazing book about ordinary Australians made extraordinary by the times they lived through . . .' - Peter FitzSimons
About 1300 Australians died in the desert campaigns of World War I, while another 3500 died in North Africa and the Middle East during World War...
by Boori Monty Pryor, Jan Ormerod
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
BOORI MONTY PRYOR: AUSTRALIA'S CHILDREN'S LAUREATE 2012-13
From pizza shop to bora ground, here is a joyous celebration of food, dance and cultural understanding.
When three young boys go to a pizza parlour and meet an Aboriginal chef who can speak Italian and make a deadly pizza, they're...
It Will Get Better
The inspirational true story of one woman's courage to overcome abuse, loss and heartache to create a better life
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Stella Gibney grew up in 1960s New Zealand. She was the fifth child in a family of six. But unlike her brothers and sisters, Stella suffered a number of abusive incidents during her formative years.
But Stella was determined not to let years of horrific abusive situations and domestic violence...