Allen Unwin: 2237 books
If I Tell You I'll Have to Kill You
Australia's top crime writers reveal their secrets
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Crime fiction is the single most popular genre in international publishing and Australia has some of the finest practitioners when it comes to walking the mean streets and nailing the bad guys.
Whether you're a fan of crime fiction, true crime or a would-be crime writer, this collection of...
Milat
Inside Australia's biggest manhunt - a detective's story
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Milat - the serial killer who preyed on young hitchhikers. The backpackers - the innocent victims of a brutal murderer. Belanglo - a place that became synonymous with pure evil.
It was the biggest and most complex manhunt in Australian history, an investigation that gripped a nation. Behind...
Not Your Ordinary Housewife
How the man I loved led me into a world I had never imagined
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
When Nikki Stern left suburban Melbourne for Europe in the early 1980s, little did she know that her life was about to change dramatically.
Adopted into a well-connected family and educated at an exclusive school, she fell instantly and hopelessly in love with a charming and charismatic cartoonist...
The Rumour Mill
A Jazzy Lou novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Jazzy Lou is back and busier than ever!
Queen Bee, her fabulous PR firm, is going from strength to strength with an ever-expanding roster of clients, including the hottest new International Designer.
At home, Jazzy has her hands full with her baby girl Fifi, as well as the planning of...
Taking to the Skies
Daredevils, heroes and hijackings, great Australian flying stories
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
So how do you test drive a Jumbo? And why did a future civil aviation director once taxi a plane down Perth's main street to attend a ball?
From the ridiculous to the downright dangerous, the story of Australian aviation is full of tales of adventure and nation building. It is also a story...
The Flying Kangaroo
Great Untold Stories of Qantas...The Heroic, the Hilarious and the Sometimes Just Plain Strange
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
From its earliest days, Qantas has attracted its fair share of unusual challenges and unique characters. These are the stories of a great airline and the people who made it, told by a man who has Qantas blood running through his veins. They are hilarious, nostalgic, heroic and sometimes even odd.
They...
Fighter Pilot
Mis-Adventures beyond the sound barrier with an Australian Top Gun
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Mac Tucker, or 'Serge' to use his callsign name, is one of an elite group of men trained to fly F-18 jets. Now, for the first time, Serge takes you behind the scenes of the fighter pilot world to reveal what it's really like.
Find out how it feels to be shot at by SAS snipers, to be lost in...
Kiwi
The Australian brand that brought a shine to the world
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
You probably have a tin of shoe polish tucked under the laundry sink bearing the little bird logo that has been in homes around the globe for over a century. Founded in Melbourne by William Ramsay in 1906, Kiwi is one of the most iconic and enduring international brands ever to have come out of Australia.
One...
by Nigel Marsh
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Are you slogging your guts out at a job you don't particularly like to buy things you don't particularly need? Would you like to spend more time with your family and less time at work? Do you ever wonder what it'd be like to really love what you do?
Ten years on from Fat, Forty and Fired, Nigel...
Umm ...: A complete guide to public speaking
A complete guide to public speaking
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Public speakers are not born. They are made. Someone who is a bad public speaker can become a good public speaker. And a good public speaker can create as much pleasure as a bad one can create pain. They can inspire, they can move, they can cause the listener to laugh, cry and give money. Sometimes...
Inhuman Resources
A guide to the psychos, misfits and criminally incompetent in every office
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Hell is other people. Real hell is other people in your office.
Every day the office is becoming more and more dangerous. Hard hats are not required, however thick skin must be worn at all times. Bad behaviour, rudeness, mega-dagginess and mercenary ambition is condoned, and often celebrated....
Breaking News
Sex, lies and the Murdoch succession
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
At the age of 82, Rupert Murdoch is divorcing his third wife Wendi Deng and gearing up for the toughest challenge of his life: to hand his empire on to his children. But is this the end of the Murdoch dynasty?
Lachlan doesn't want to succeed him. James is in disgrace. And Elisabeth is not a...
The Good Fight
Six years, two prime ministers and staring down the Great Recession
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
Praise for Swan's handling of the economy
'One of the most impressive economic policies I have seen, ever.' - Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate
'Wayne Swan's judgment and decisiveness, in international terms, must rank a high distinction.' - Paul Keating
A very personal account...
Stalking of Julia Gillard
How the media and Team Rudd brought down the prime minister
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
'Don't write crap. Can't be that hard. And when you have written complete crap, then I think you should correct it.' Julia Gillard
When Julia Gillard took the reins of the Australian Labor Party on 24 June 2010 she did so with the goodwill of the majority of her party and a fawning Canberra...