Allen Unwin: 2237 books
The Power of Bones
From a troubled childhood to running a cattle station one woman's heartbreaking but uplifting story of triumph
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
It looked bleak and predictable for little Keelen Mailman: an alcoholic mother, absent father, the horrors of regular sexual and physical assault and the casual racism of a small outback town in the sixties. But somehow, despite the pain and deprivation, the lost education, she managed to absorb her...
by Tony Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
It was always expected that Lachie Sinclair and his brothers would one day take over the family property, Kamilaroi. But when tragedy strikes, Lachlan blames his father and angrily renounces any future for him at Kamilaroi.
Moving to the city, Lachie joins the police force and quickly rises...
In Stockmen's Footsteps
How a farm girl from the blacksoil plains grew up to champion Australia's outback heritage
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Jane Grieve was born and raised on a farm on the Darling Downs in Queensland. She grew up with the wind in her hair and the rich black Darling Downs soil between her barefoot toes, her vivid imagination captivated by the tales of her Colonial forebears and the romantic notion of Australia's outback.
From...
by Jim Haynes
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Australia's national character and spirit have always been defined, rightly or wrongly, by 'the bush'. This entertaining, thought-provoking, humorous, nostalgic and, above all, highly readable collection of stories for the modern reader shows why the romance endures.
From Jim Haynes, one of...
Hear the Train Blow
The classic autobiography of growing up in the bush
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Patricia Jean Smith and her sister, Miss Mickie, grew up as railway children, their parents a station-mistress and a fettler. The catalogue of towns they lived in reverberates with the once-familiar clatter of metal and steam, but it was the tiny one-pub town of Waaia, in the centre of Victoria's...
Castles, Follies and Four-Leaf Clovers
Adventures along Ireland's St Declan's Way
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Rich in history, castles and larger-than-life characters, St Declan's Way is one of Ireland's best kept secrets.
Rosamund's adventures begin when she is lent a map of the ancient highway and pilgrim route St Declan's Way. Intrigued she returns to Ireland. Setting off from the famous Rock of...
by Patsy Adam-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
For Patsy Adam-Smith, the bright-eyed little girl whose childhood is recounted in the best-selling autobiography Hear the Train Blow, the Second World War was a ticket away from a cherished but restricting life with her railway family. The Depression had taken its toll and the glorious days of dancing...
Springtime in Taranaki
An autobiography of youth
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
'Who would want to live in a country town?' asks the poet Elizabeth Riddell, who, like myself, left New Zealand for Sydney in youth.Well, I for one would. Of course you have to leave it when you reach your twenties and you are restless or energetic or ambitious.
Capturing the nostalgia of springtime...
The Missing Heir
The autobiography of Kylie Tennant
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Kylie Tennant's novels are known for their vitality and social realism, and The Missing Heir is in the same tradition. Wicked pen-portraits of her forebears and parents set the scene before the narrative moves on to Kylie herself.
The story of her life unfolds vividly. Kylie Tennant has never...
Natural Born Keller
My life and other palaver
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
By turns hilarious and moving, Amanda Keller takes us on a nostalgia filled journey through her life. From her childhood in sunny Brisbane to her daggy teen years in suburban Sydney. Then onto heady college days in Bathurst, where wine was called 'claret' and came in a box, and finally to establishing...
by Ros Moriarty
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
The moving and personal story of one woman's journey into the remote and rugged Tanami Desert with the matriarchs of her husband's family. Shortlisted for both The Age Book of the Year and The Australian Human Rights Commission Literature Award. 'This big land, Australia. It's big enough for everyone!'...
by Miriam Estensen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
In August 1800, George Bass returned to England after five years in the British colony of New South Wales. Gifted, ambitious and impatient with the limitations of a naval career, he took leave from the navy to purchase a ship of his own and organise a commercial venture to Sydney. He also met Elizabeth...
Telling True Stories
Navigating the challenges of writing narrative non-fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
'In this excellent and provocative book, Matthew Ricketson lays bare the challenges of modern storytelling. I have found myself thinking about it every day, long after I put it down.' - William Powers, author of Hamlet's BlackBerry
'An essential guide for the true storyteller.' - Chloe Hooper,...
The Art of Romance Writing
Practical advice from an internationally bestselling romance writer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
The Art of Romance Writing is an up-to-the-minute practical guide to the romance writing genre, written by the international best-selling author Valerie Parv.
Clearcut examples of romance writing show exactly what works, what doesn't and why, unravelling the myth of the formula' and highlighting...