Allen Unwin: 2237 books
The Luck of the Irish
How a shipload of convicts survived the wreck of the Hive to make a new life in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
The luck of the Irish was chronic bad luck, as their sad history attests. That's how it looked for 250 Irish convicts when their ship, the Hive, sank ignominiously off the New South Wales coast in 1835. Miraculously all survived, guided to safety by local Aboriginal people.
They landed at a...
Public Relations
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
'This has always been the definitive text for PR in Australia. Public Relations: Theory and Practice is the complete companion for new and not-so-new practitioners. I'll be keeping a copy on my bookshelf.' - Tracy Jones, FPRIA former president, Public Relations Institute of Australia
Public...
Keep Your Head Down: One commando's brutally honest account of fighting in Afghanistan
One commando's brutally honest account of fighting in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
A brutally honest, poignant but at times hilarious account of fighting in Afghanistan with the 2 Commando Company, of the Australian Army Reserve. Nathan Mullins deployed to Afghanistan as a Special Forces Commando. Spearheading Australia's Special Operations troops, he and other Australians like...
Fighting Blind
On assignment in war-torn Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Heroism is found in many forms and sometimes in the most unlikely places
Australian Shane Horsburgh spent years immersed in the chaotic, adrenaline-fuelled world of high-risk policing and counterterrorism - but when the thrill wore off, he quit his job and flew into Baghdad to work for the...
Caught in the Crossfire
An Australian peacekeeper beyond the front-line
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
In 2006, while part of an un-armed UN peacekeeping team at the border junction of Lebanon, Israel and Syria, Australian Major Matina Jewell and her colleagues were caught in a full-scale war with tragic consequences. In the days that followed she and her team-mates reported hundreds of violations...
Primary School Confidential
Confessions from the classroom
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Popular columnist and blogger Mrs Woog lifts the lid on a world that's part jungle, part nursery, a place both sweet and feral, where the rule of law is tenuous at best and primitive desires hold sway over order and discipline. And wait till you see the children!
We're talking about primary...
by Fleur McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
When Anna and Matt finally buy their dream farm, their struggles aren't quite over, in an exciting new novel full of romance and mystery from the author of Red Dust and Blue Skies
Anna and Matt Butler were childhood sweethearts with a dream of owning their own land, a dream they achieved through...
by Fleur McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
When marketing executive Tessa Mathison leaves London to attend her great-aunt's funeral in Australia, her life is in turmoil.
An indiscretion during a boozy night out has resulted in Tessa's name being mud in London's cliquey marketing scene, and soon after she arrives in her homeland she...
by Karly Lane
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Since her divorce a year ago, Kate Thurston feels like she's lurched from one disaster to another. Her teenage daughter, Georgia, seems to have morphed into a monster overnight, and her son Liam breaks her heart with his sad brown eyes.
When Kate receives news that her grandfather has bequeathed...
by Fleur McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Fiona Forrest is devastated when her husband Charlie commits suicide after the accidental shooting of his mate Eddie. Though Fiona decides to keep farming their successful property, rumours that she intends to sell keep circulating.
When Detective Dave Burrows arrives to sign off on the investigation...
by Therese Creed
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Alice Wilson is happy to be returning home to Redstone Station after two years at Ag College. On various placements at farms and stations during her college days she's been shocked by some of the attitudes to women. By contrast, her grandfather Sam has always treated her as an equal.
For his...
by Karly Lane
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Bridie Farrell and Shaun Broderick come from opposite sides of the tracks. But unlike Bridie's family, who are perennial strugglers, the Brodericks are the wealthy owners of Jinjulu - one of the most prestigious properties in their local district.
All her life Bridie has longed to leave the...
Sheila
The Australian beauty who bewitched British society
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Sheila wedded earls and barons, befriended literary figures and movie stars, bedded a future king, was feted by London and New York society for forty years and when she died was a Russian princess.
Vivacious, confident and striking, Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Francis Edward Scudamore...
The Long and Winding Way to the Top
Fifty (or so) songs that made Australia
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
'Andrew tells us things about the songs that we might not know and things about the songs that no one should ever know. He does it with intelligence and humour, not to mention an acid wit.' - Jimmy Barnes
Which band is Australia's premier act for drunk men to hug to? Which dance floor smash...