Allen Unwin: 2237 books
by Judith Brett
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
Politicians' lives are public lives. The decisions they make and do not make, and the way they behave, affect us all and shape our lives.
To what extent do the inner lives of our leaders influence their performance? Should we know about the inner person? Indeed, how can we know?
The...
Write to Publish
Writing feature articles for magazines, newspapers, and corporate and community publications
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999
Write to Publish is the ideal guide for anyone who wants to see their articles in print. Whether you want to make a living as a freelance journalist, edit a newsletter, or contribute occasional articles to a small publication, it gives you all the information you need to get started.
Vin Maskell...
by Anne Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
*In a minute she'd beg me to do anything I could to save the garment. That's what they always did. Begged and pleaded. There was usually a lover involved, and a cheated-upon spouse. I, as the mender, would be saving their life. People had actually said I was worth my weight in gold . . .
But...
by Morris West
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
One of the most famous victims of the Holy Office of the Inquisition was the brilliant Dominican monk Giordano Bruno, burnt at the stake for heresy in 1600. Morris West recreates a diary of Bruno's intimate thoughts as he languishes in Rome's worst prison for seven years. Bruno's reflections and frank...
by Danielle Hawkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Helen McNeil is a vet in the small rural town of Broadview. While taking evasive action from a dull girl at a party one night she falls over - and fails to recognise - national sporting hero, Mark Tipene. For some mysterious reason Helen never really grasps, Mark finds this charming and appears the...
After Everest
Inside the private world of Edmund Hillary
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
'Well if you have a big life, a lot of stuff happens. Dad had a big life.' - Peter Hillary
Edmund Hillary is a towering figure among adventurers. His conquest of Everest and his dedication to the welfare of the Nepalese people is well known. While much has been written about what Sir Edmund...
Tamil Tigress
My story as a child soldier in Sri Lanka's bloody civil war
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Two days before Christmas in 1987, at the age of 17, Niromi de Soyza found herself in an ambush as part of a small platoon of militant Tamil Tigers fighting government forces in the bloody civil war that was to engulf Sri Lanka for decades. With her was her lifelong friend, Ajanthi, also aged 17....
by Patti Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
We all have a story to tell - whether it is a story of a migrant childhood, a difficult past, adopting a child, riding a bike across India, or simply a contemplative year in a garden. With these stories we make sense of ourselves and the world around us.
Memoir - writing about an aspect of...
Writing True Stories
The complete guide to writing autobiography, memoir, personal essay, biography, travel and creative nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Writing True Stories is the essential book for anyone who has ever wanted to write a memoir or explore the wider territory of creative nonfiction. It provides practical guidance and inspiration on a vast array of writing topics, including how to access memories, find a narrative voice, build a vivid...
A Short History of Cambodia: From empire to survival
From empire to survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
New in the Short History of Asia series edited by Milton Osborne this is a concise and readable history of Cambodia from its rich and powerful past through the era of French protection the Vietnamese conflict the Pol Pot regime and to its present day incarnation as a constitutional monarchy and popular...
by Charlotte Wood
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Charlotte Wood's online journal The Writer's Room has become essential reading for writers at all stages of their careers, and also pure reading pleasure for booklovers everywhere. Charlotte's interviews with a wide range of well-known writers range in topic from the subject matter of the writers'...
by Robert M Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Dr Robert Kaplan, a forensic-psychiatrist and researcher, set out to explore the various brain diseases or conditions that have made some people very famous (or infamous), and often changed the course of history.
The Exceptional Brain and How It Changed the World delves into the lives of famous...
by Andrew Riemer
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Award-winning author Andrew Riemer revisits Eastern Europe, having left it at the age of ten, and presents a sparkling account of his travels in Austria and Hungary, the heartland of the Habsburg Empire. He takes us from Vienna, which he calls a theme park dedicated to images of a romantic past, to...
David Suzuki
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
This is the story of one man's passion for the planet. A passion that for several decades he has brought to the world through his research, his writings, his broadcasting and above all through his life and the way he lives it.
One of the first and strongest influences on David Suzuki was the...