Allen Unwin imprint: 1774 books
The Godfather
The life of Brian Burke
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Once touted as a potential prime minister, former Western Australian premier Brian Burke has had a rollercoaster career. This is the first major biography of this charismatic and influential politician who even out of power and disgraced, pulled political strings in WA and beyond.
The most...
by Dom Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
'I entered the world kicking and screaming in 1973. I put my theatrical entrance down to me craving a nicotine fix. Mum smoked, like a chimney, right through the nine months of pregnancy. As far as anyone knew back then smoking was good for the unborn child. I'm pretty sure smoking was even permitted...
by Louisa Deasey
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
'Some kinds of adventure are always worth the risk.'
What could possibly drive a latte-loving city girl to throw out all her new shoes and move into the passenger seat of a beat-up Mazda?
When fate decided to connect an inner-city journalist with an unlikely comedian at a wacky astrology...
by Candida Baker
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Few animals touch our lives the way cats do. Even those who know cats well are still awed by their daring and determination, fearless curiosity, and astonishing powers of persuasion that ensure they almost always get what they want.
This rich collection of true stories celebrates many tiny...
Starting with Max
How a wise stray dog gave me strength and inspiration
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
My dog has demonstrated a grand theory about life's simplest activities. He acts out the meaning of life by actively living it. Do not think so much about yourself, he tells me. Know where you're going, and just get up and go. Be playful and joyous.
Starting a new life in a new city, in a new...
Private Don
The man behind the legend of Don Bradman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
'Have you ever stopped to think how much the hurly burly and turmoil of cricket have taken out of me in the last 40 years?'
He was the greatest cricketer the world has ever known. He was also one of the greatest enigmas. Sir Donald Bradman was a fiercely private man, but from 1953 to 1977 he...
The Great New Zealand Robbery
How gangsters pulled off our most audacious robbery
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
It should be remembered as New Zealand's answer to Britain's Great Train Robbery: in the dead of the night, robbers broke into the Waterfront Industry Commission's offices and made off with an audacious loot equivalent to almost 1 million today.
This 1956 heist, which eventually came to be...
Jack Davenport
Beaufighter Leader
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
'We all need heroes to look up to and to emulate.' - Sir Arvi Parbo AC
Blending sound research with enlightening anecdotes, Jack Davenport, Beaufighter Leader charts Jack's development from his Depression childhood, to the green pilot who had difficulties locating the target on his first Bomber...
by Tom O'Regan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1993
Australian television has been transformed over the past decade. Cross-media ownership and audience-reach regulations redrew the map and business culture of television; leading business entrepreneurs acquired television stations and then sold them in the bust of the late 1980s; and new television...
An Irresistible Temptation
The true story of Jane New and a colonial scandal
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Carol Baxter has written a work that captures the reader This is largely because of her skill as a narrative historian, her capacity to tell a good story.' - Gregory Melleuish, Australian Literary Review
In 1829 at the Supreme Court in Sydney, the bewitching Jane New was sentenced to death....
by Babette Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
Based on frank and revealing interviews with mothers and sons of all ages, Babette Smith's ground-breaking book tells the truth about this crucial relationship. She probes behind the myths and the silences to uncover some surprising answers.
Many middle-aged sons confess to being bored in their...
Media Strategies
Managing content, platforms and relationships
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Media Strategies maps the complex and disruptive media environment for the communication professional and provides the tools and methods to work effectively within it.
Increasingly, communication professionals need to be accomplished content managers, capable of employing an arsenal of multi-media...
Winners and Losers
The pursuit of social justice in Australian history
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1985
What is a fair wage? Is there a right to work? Is there a right to shelter or to good health? What are the entitlements of those who cannot work? Can opportunities be equal? For women? For Aborigines?
For more than a century, Australians have addressed expectations of social justice to their...
by Fleur McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
In the tradition of Rachael Treasure and from the bestselling author of Red Dust, Blue Skies tells the inspirational story of a young woman battling to save the family farm no matter what it takes.
Armed with an honours degree in Agribusiness, Amanda Greenfield dreams of employing all the skills...