Allen Unwin: 2237 books
The Best Australian Sea Stories
Our land is girt by sea
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
The deep blue sea has been an endless source of inspiration, wonder and imagination for explorers and writers alike. Australia's history and national character have been defined by the fact that we live on an isolated island continent girt by sea.
The Best Australian Sea Stories is full of...
by Jonathan King
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Great Moments in Australian History presents an exciting collection of stories about the most colourful highlights and heroes of Australia's history. Pioneering a fresh approach, award-winning author Jonathan King dramatises events to bring each moment vividly to life.
Dodge Aboriginal spears...
by Jim Haynes
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Did you know that in 1932 the Australian army was called out to wage war on an invading army of 20,000...emus? Or that the first royal personage to arrive in Australia was the King of Iceland and he came as a convict? And how about the spooky phenomenon of the mischief-making Guyra Ghost?
From...
In Search of Captain Moonlite
Bushranger, conman, warrior, lunatic
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
When a masked and cloaked bandit robbed the bank at a small gold town in 1869 he created the legend of Captain Moonlite, the gun-toting man of God who enthralled and appalled the nation for more than a decade.
Real name Andrew George Scott, he is remembered as bushranger, conman, warrior and...
The Best Australian Yarns
and other true stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Best Australian Yarns is a substantial and definitive collection of factual and fanciful Aussie stories, humour and anecdotes--the result of decades of researching popular Aussie culture and history and yarning to mates and other colourful characters from all parts of Australia and all walks of life.
This...
Right Book, Right Time
500 great reads for teenagers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Read for pleasure, for thrills, for escape, for ideas, for involvement. Read books that make you laugh and cry and wonder and think. Read for yourself and not for others. That's the focus of Right Book, Right Time - 500 great reads for teenagers.
For all those voracious and eclectic young readers,...
No Front Line
Australian special forces at war in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
The soldiers of the SAS, the Commandos and Special Operations Engineer Regiment are Australia's most highly trained soldiers. Their work is often secret, their bravery undeniable and for thirteen years they were at the forefront of Australia's longest war. Shunning acclaim, they are the Australian...
by Tim Bowden
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
Tim Bowden first visited and fell in love with Antarctica in 1989 and has been back five times. This is the very personal memoir of that first trip south.
With a well-tuned sense of the absurd, Tim introduces the varied personalities and eccentricities of life on board the resupply ship Icebird....
David Boon's Funniest Sporting Moments
Hilarious mishaps and moments from our favourite sports
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Australian cricketers have always liked to keep in shape. It's just that a lot of the time that shape is a circle. When Shane Warne waddled out to play South Africa in the 1997 Boxing Day test, his physique wasn't exactly streamlined, but his competitive spirit was still in fine shape.
'I've...
A Cargo of Women: Susannah Watson and the convicts of the Princess Royal
Susannah Watson and the convicts of the Princess Royal
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
New edition of the bestselling history that traces the chequered story of 100 women transported together in 1829 to Sydney. Includes new information on the women and treatment of convicts and new illustrations. Intrigued to discover a convict ancestor in her family tree Babette Smith decided to investigate...
Pen Portraits
Women writers and journalists in nineteenth century Australia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1988
Pen Portraits tells the story of the achievements of Australia's earliest women writers.
Despite being confined to a life within the home in a frontier society, some talented (and very determined) women in colonial Australia carved out careers as writers. Among them were writers of popular...
by Craig Collie and Hajime Marutani
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
The story of the bloody Kokoda campaign, told for the first time through the personal experiences of the Japanese soldiers. 'We were all skin and bone, as if our stomachs were stuck to the inside wall of our back.' Two armies, Japanese and Australian, each in turn pushing the other back along a muddy,...
Uncommon Soldier
Brave, compassionate and tough, the making of our modern Diggers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Chris Masters, the country's foremost investigative journalist, turns his penetrating gaze on the modern Australian soldier. Moving away from our ongoing fascination with Anzac story, he looks at the rich and illuminating present to write a character study of the modern Australian soldier - war fighter,...
Saving Private Sarbi
The true story of Australia's canine war hero
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Powerful, dramatic, heartwarming, this is the true story of Sarbi, the scruffy black Labrador-cross trained by the Australian Army as an explosives detection dog for the most dangerous combat mission imaginable.
Thirteen months after Australia's most famous canine warrior went missing in action...