Allen Unwin: 2237 books
by Claire Corbett
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
'This book is intoxicating; it made me imagine things I never imagined before. The world of flying is so complete, so detailed and real, it was as if I was flying, as if I could feel my wings. This is an addictive mystery, clever and compelling.' Jane Campion, director of The Piano and Bright Star
Flight...
Pardon Me for Mentioning . . .
Unpublished letters to The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
Writers of letters to The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald are poets, dreamers and provocateurs. The overwhelming majority is in search of a better world, even if some disguise their aspiration in a sheath that is crackling dry. They are possessed of good sense and a wicked sense of humour. No topic...
Gotta Love This Country!
Great stories from around Australia to lift your heart, make you laugh and puff out your chest
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
You gotta love this country when an AFL legend takes his mum instead of his girlfriend to the Brownlow, when an Australian cricket captain joins a bunch of fourteen year olds for a bit of street cricket, when a bloke wins the Australian Marbles Championship after being reunited with the tom-bowlers...
Amazing Encounters with Those Who Have Passed Over
And what they teach us about life after death
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
This heart-warming new book from Georgina Walker is packed full of real-life encounters with loved ones who have passed over. Here everyday people share their remarkable stories of amazing synchronicities and unexpected moments of magic in amongst the overwhelming grief that surround times of separation...
Ride
From ultra-cycling rookie to racing across America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
At his brother's wedding in 2002, 30-year-old Josh Kench sat with a cigarette in one hand and a beer in the other, and announced that he was going to do the Coast to Coast. His pronouncement was met with derision, but he's proved his doubters wrong.
Josh won the 2010 Lake Taupo Extreme Enduro,...
by Jacki Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Dubbed a National Treasure by Gough Whitlam, a Gay Icon by Les McDonald and a Household Name by the Sydney Morning Herald ('so is Sorbent,' her unimpressed mother remarked), Jacki Weaver has combined a distinguished acting career with a tumultuous personal life.
A self-confessed bolter and...
The Big Score: A Cliff Hardy novel
Cliff Hardy 32
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Cliff Hardy has his hands full with murder, blackmail, embezzlement and more in this new collection of short stories. In this brand new collection of short stories, Cliff Hardy has his hands full with murder, blackmail, embezzlement and more. True to form, Cliff doesn't waste words or pull punches...
Amazing Aussie Bastards
Remarkable true tales from magnates, moguls and other Australian mavericks
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Amazing bastard (colloquial), n: a bloke who does stuff that other bastards wouldn't try in a month of Sundays
We've all met them, or at least read about them - men who drive faster, climb higher, build and invent and triumph over impossible odds.
Journalist Lawrence Money has assembled...
Blood and Circuses
An irresponsible memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
In his early years on TV he was the 'wog' who was always being told to 'Leave the money on the fridge' by Ted Bullpitt in Kingswood Country. And ultimately he became the majestic patriarch, Manolis, in The Slap.
Between times, he attended the birth of Triple J, ran the rugby league touchlines...
Sex and Money
How I lived, breathed, read, wrote, loved, hated, slept, dreamed &drank men's magazines
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Sex + Money: growing up in the men's magazines is the story of Mark Dapin's rise from the gutter (where he found himself one sad morning with no money and no shoes) to editor-in-chief of Ralph magazine. Along the way, he has his ribs broken by world welterweight boxing champion Kostya Tszyu and his...
Mum had a Kingswood
Tales from the life and mind of Rosso
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
It's a book. A funny book. A funny book by Tim 'Rosso' Ross.
But what's in this funny book I hear you ask?
Well, it's all manner of stories from the life and mind of Tim Ross.
There are warm, fuzzy childhood stories of billycarts and milk bars. There are teenage stories of angst,...
D.A.A.S.: Their Part in My Downfall
On the road with the Doug Anthony All-Stars
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
'There is ... a ruthless tenderness about the Doug Anthony All Stars that makes them more scathingly funny than ever.' Libbi Gorr
Paul observes, 'You are looking at us, ladies and gentlemen, and thinking, 'Oh my god, Tripod have been in a terrible accident.''
Under the guise of his alter...
Your Mother Would Be Proud
True tales of mayhem and misadventure
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Whether it's cartwheeling naked across a rugby field in front of an audience of one billion (including your dad); playing eleven-minute soft rock tracks on night-shift radio as cover for some adult magazine fumblings; getting your appendix removed to avoid an English lesson; or stealing KISS's groupies...
Living With Bipolar
A guide to understanding and managing the disorder
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
A practical and authoritative guide to bipolar disorder: its causes, current treatments and strategies for managing the illness and living well. Living with Bipolar provides essential and practical information for people with bipolar disorder, their families and friends. Two leading research psychiatrists...