Allen Unwin: 2237 books
Outlaws
The truth about Australian bikers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
What's it like to be an outlaw biker? 'We're dickhead magnets,' one of them tells Adam Shand. 'Drunks in bars like to test themselves against a so-called outlaw.'
Once seen as a free-wheeling, brawling, pleasure-seeking bunch of misfits rolling down the highways, bikers are now cast as social...
Is This My Beautiful Life?
A memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
The fairytale I had dreamt up saw me still blazing ahead with my career, sharing the cooking and cleaning duties with my husband and having neat, tidy and well- behaved children who had beautifully brushed hair. But that was not my life.
Journalist, celebrity, television presenter, author,...
Small Bamboo
How my family's journey on a leaky boat led to our wonderful life in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In 1978, following a dramatic escape from war torn Vietnam, Tracy Vo's parents boarded a leaky boat not knowing what their future held or whether they would live. The couple had fled Vietnam under the cover of darkness, exchanged wedding rings en route to Malaysia, then sold them and their scant possessions...
Alphabet Soup
My Life On And Off Screen
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Australia's best loved morning TV presenter, Mel Doyle, invites you inside her home and her life. Now, for the first time, Mel shares what it is like to juggle a high profile TV career with the full time job of being a Mum.
In Alphabet Soup, she has collected together some of her favourite...
by Fleur McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Since inheriting Nambina, the property that's been in her family for generations, Laura Murphy has worked wonders. Rather than just focus on farming she has set up a successful school teaching women the basics of managing a property - from fencing and mustering to handling the financial side of the...
The Barefoot Surgeon
The inspirational story of Dr Sanduk Ruit, the eye surgeon giving sight and hope to the world's poor
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
'A true insight into my remarkable friend Dr Sanduk Ruit.' - Gabi Hollows
'He reminds me of Don Bradman. They both have a God-given talent and skill...' - Ray Martin
'If I've done one thing in life I'm proud of, it's launching Ruit into the world'. - Fred Hollows
'One of the greatest...
by John Heffernan, Lyn White
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
When the tsunami strikes the Japanese coastal town of Omori-wan, the effects are utterly devastating. Three years later, much of what happened on that day is still a mystery. As Hotaka sets about convincing local performers to appear at the town's upcoming Memorial Concert, he finds himself increasingly...
After Words
Post-Prime Ministerial Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Books of speeches are rarely published as a compendium of work by one person. After Words is unique in Australian publishing by virtue of its scale and range of subjects, and that all the speeches are the work of one eye and one mind: former Prime Minister Paul Keating.
Each speech has been...
Vietnam
The complete story of the Australian war
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
For Australians, Vietnam remains one of most difficult - and controversial - wars we have fought. On the fiftieth anniversary of Australia's first involvement comes Vietnam: The Complete Story of the Australian War, for anyone who wishes to understand why Australia went to war, and who wants to make...
The Australian Blue Ribbon Cookbook
Stories, recipes and secret tips from prize-winning show cooks
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Every year hundreds of talented amateurs devote hours to preparing entries for cookery competitions run as part of 600 or so agricultural shows across Australia. In their quest for a precious blue ribbon, they use recipes based on generations of experience and strict judging codes that demand absolute...
Stone Cold
The extraordinary story of Len Opie, Australia's deadliest soldier
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
'If I'd have been a Vietcong you'd be dead.' - Len Opie
'Len was a soldier above soldiers.' - Keith Payne VC
Through three wars across 30 years, Len Opie carved a reputation as one of the country's greatest infantrymen. A cold-eyed killer who drank nothing stronger than weak tea, he...
by Anna Fienberg, Barbara Fienberg, Kim Gamble
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
'Don't go near the ghost house. Who knows what is prowling around in there!'
There's a light in the window of the haunted house, and Tashi is going in. He's brave, but is he fast enough to beat two mysterious strangers in a race around the village? And what will happen if he loses?
No one has adventures like Tashi. And no one tells such exciting stories.
by Lily Xiao Hong Lee, Sue Wiles
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
Just seventeen when they became lovers, Mao's second wife, He Zizhen was condemned to a life of loneliness after he tired of her. A strong young peasant who only wanted to be a soldier, Kang Keqing was called the Girl Commander. Married at seventeen to a man she didn't know, the illiterate peasant...
My Droving Days
Life on the long paddock
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Peter Moore left the city behind in 1952 to become part of a dying breed - a long-distance drover. In My Droving Days we follow his progress through the 1950s as he rubs shoulders with the larger-than-life characters - and their dogs and horses - who trekked along the outback stock routes of western...