Allen Unwin imprint: 1774 books
Keep the Men Alive
Australian POW doctors in Japanese captivity
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
'The thing that haunts me most to this day is that blokes were dying and I could do bugger all about it - do you look after the bloke who you know is going to die or the bloke who's got a chance?' - Australian ex-POW doctor, 1999
During World War II, 22 000 Australian military personnel became...
The Cruel Legacy
The HMAS Voyager Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
'Voyager's bow has been detached from her stern' was the laconic phone message left for the RAN's public relations officer' on the night of 10 February 1964.
During naval exercises off the coast at Jervis Bay, the destroyer HMAS Voyager inexplicably turned towards the RAN Flagship, HMAS Melbourne,...
Managing a Small Business in Australia
The Complete Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
No matter how talented you are, no matter how hard you work, a ready reference to essential small business skills is your roadmap to prosperity. This is the handbook that explains how to run your own business, from the author of the bestselling How to Organise and Operate a Small Business in Australia....
Looking for Lionel
How I lost and found my mother through dementia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
'Looking for Lionel is a personal story. It is a story of how dementia crept into my family unannounced and left us struggling to hold on to a life that appeared to be slipping away from us like a balloon slipping out of a child's hand. It is a story of fear and courage, shame and pride, sorrow and...
The Governesses
Letters from the colonies 1862-1882
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1989
'For anyone with a taste for social history and perhaps some feeling for the contrast between the romantic triumphs of fictional governesses and the fate of the living species self-portrayed here, this valuable book should be a special pleasure' - Tess van Sommers, Sydney Morning Herald
'It...
by Karly Lane
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Poppy Abbott seems to have it all. Bright, successful and attractive, she lives in a beautiful apartment with sweeping views of Sydney. However, since the recent death of her beloved grandmother, she's been struggling to come to terms with her grief.
Feeling nostalgic one evening, Poppy decides...
With Healing Hands
The untold story of Australian civilian surgical teams in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Early in the Vietnam War the South Vietnamese government appealed to the United States and its allies, including Australia, for desperately needed medical help. Most of the country's doctors had been conscripted into the army and the civilian population was facing a medical crisis.
From October...
Tarakan
An Australian tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1997
In 1945, 240 Australians died taking the small Borneo island of Tarakan from the Japanese. The tragedy of Tarakan was that by the time they succeeded, they need not have begun.
Peter Stanley explores that battle, what it was like and what it means to us over fifty years on. He traces the operation...
Mr Sin
The Abe Saffron dossier
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Abe Saffron was one of Australia's most notorious and powerful crime figures. Yet, he spent his life denying any involvement in criminal activity, claiming he was just a successful businessman. Sydney knew otherwise. This was the man who controlled the city's underworld with an iron fist.
Tony...
Waltzing Matilda
The secret history of Australia's favourite song
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Australians know Waltzing Matilda, written by our most popular poet Banjo Paterson, as our most loved song and unofficial national anthem. What Australians don't know is that their song is embroiled in a web of secrecy, violence and a triangular love affair. Written at a pivotal time in Australia's...
The Literacy Wars
Why teaching children to read and write is a battleground in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Do we have a literacy crisis?
Fierce debates in the media over how to teach children to read and write have reached new heights in recent years. The intensity of the debates is not surprising as literacy education matters to everyone, but there is collateral damage. Public confidence in literacy...
Don't Worry About the Robots
How to survive and thrive in the new world of work
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
In this timely book, Dr Jo Cribb and David Glover, former CEOs who have launched successful portfolio careers, share insights from their own experiences plus those of an impressive range of successful business leaders who are all actively thinking about the future of work.
Aimed at anyone who...
Call of the Outback
The remarkable story of Ernestine Hill, nomad, adventurer and trailblazer
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Long before Robyn Davidson wrote Tracks, the extraordinary Ernestine Hill was renowned for her intrepid travels across Australia's vast outback.
After the birth of her illegitimate son, Ernestine Hill abandoned her comfortable urban life as a journalist for a nomadic one, writing about this...
An Unruly Child
A history of law in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1995
'This is a provocative re-examination of our legal history appearing at a time when Australians are reconsidering both their past and their future.' - The Hon. Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG, President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal
The imperial view of Australian law was that it was...