Allen Unwin: 2237 books
The Novels of Alex Miller
An introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
One of Australia's most respected novelists, Alex Miller's writing is both popular and critically well-received. He is twice winner of Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award. He has said that writing is his way of 'locating connections' and his work is known for its deeply empathic...
National Fictions
Literature, film and the construction of Australian narrative
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1993
National Fictions is a study of Australian literature and film. It is also a study of Australian culture, viewing the novels and films as products of a specific culture - as narratives with similar structures, functions, forms and meanings. It covers a wide range of texts, offering both close analysis...
by Alan Ramsey
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
For more than two decades, from mid-1987 to the end of 2008, no one had greater access to our national parliament and its politicians than Alan Ramsey. Informed, insightful and unafraid, his Wednesday and Saturday columns in The Sydney Morning Herald were always essential reading for many thousands...
A Short History of Indonesia
The Unlikely Nation?
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2003
Islamic, authoritarian, democratic, developing, disintegrating, Indonesia is an enigma to outside observers who have never seemed sure just what it is.
The largest country in its region, Indonesia holds the key to Southeast Asia's future, while recent developments (demands for greater regional...
A Short History Of Malaysia:Linking East And West
Linking East and West
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a readable, well-informed and comprehensive history of Malaysia from ancient past to hyper-modern present day. One of the last British colonies to achieve independence, Malaysia has been developed by its leaders as a model...
Exploring Southeast Asia
A traveller's history of the region
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Southeast Asia is a tantalising part of the world. The region has undergone dramatic changes during its long and colourful history, and is marked by enormous cultural, geographical and political diversity.
From the grandeur of the 'classical' years through the transformations that accompanied...
by Keith Murdoch
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
In September 1915, Keith Murdoch, then a young war journalist, wrote an 8000-word letter to the Prime Minister, Andrew Fisher. 'The Gallipoli Letter', as it came to be known, changed the course of the Gallipoli campaign.
The letter, protesting against the conduct of the campaign and describing...
Phillip Schuler
The remarkable life of one of Australia's greatest war correspondents
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Phillip Schuler, a handsome young journalist from the Melbourne Age, covered the Gallipoli campaign alongside Charles Bean. His bravery was legendary. His dispatches were evocative and compassionate. He captured the heroism and horror for Australian newspaper readers in ways the meticulous yet dry...
Curtin's Gift
Reinterpreting Australia's greatest prime minister
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
John Curtin, prime minister during the darkest days of the Second World War, is remembered as the reluctant hero of Australian politics. In the Australian story he is the recovering alcoholic and the accidental prime minister who saved Australia from invasion by Japan, overrode the opposition of Churchill...
Blood Brothers
Crime, Business and Politics in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
All over Asia bankers, gangsters, government officials and intelligence agents interact while organised crime networks threaten the rest of the world.
Chinese gangs run Chinatowns all over the United States and Europe; Vietnamese mobsters have taken over the heroin trade to Australia; Russian...
The Life of George Bass
Surgeon and sailor of the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
On 5 February 1802, the 142-ton brig Venus cleared Sydney heads to begin a trading voyage through the islands of the Pacific. On board as captain was one of her owners, the surgeon, navigator, adventurer and now entrepreneur George Bass. Neither Bass nor the Venus completed the voyage. They simply...
Finding Sanity
John Cade, lithium and the taming of bipolar disorder
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
For most of human history, mental illness has been largely untreatable. Sufferers lived their lives - if they survived - in and out of asylums, accumulating life's wreckage around them.
In 1948, all that changed when an Australian doctor and recently returned prisoner of war, working alone...
by Nicole Trope
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
A gripping novel about the terrible secrets of a marriage, the love that can turn to desperation, the refuge and heartbreak of being a parent, and the fragile threads that cradle a family
Once, so very long ago, she had watched him like this when he came to pick her up for a date. . . Her stomach...
A Good Life to the End
Taking control of our inevitable journey through ageing and death
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
A huge majority of people at the end of their lives want to die at home, but only a small number manage to do this. This vital book asks why.
Many of us have experienced an elderly loved one coming to the end of their life in a hospital - over-treated, infantilised and, worst of all, facing...