Allen Unwin: 2237 books
Star-Craving Mad
Tales from a travelling astronomer
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Fred Watson knows all about the madness that drives people to understand the Universe and unlock its secrets.
Now you can join Australia's best-known astronomer on a unique tour to unravel the mysteries of space and time. Take in primitive observatories in ancient Peru and the world's largest...
by Midwife Cath
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
'Cath Curtin is the newborn baby guru! A calming voice, a gentle hand and a wealth of knowledge during one of the most incredible but terrifying times of your life - new parenthood. To have Cath's support after the birth of my first son was invaluable and I don't know how I would have done it without...
Twins
A practical guide to parenting multiples from conception to preschool
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
When Louise and Katrina discovered they were having twins, both had the same thought once they recovered from the shock: buy a book that explains what to expect in order to get organised and to prepare emotionally and physically for the anticipated upheaval to their lives. When they couldn't find...
The Baby Bible
A guide to taking care of your bump, your baby and yourself
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
What you're not expecting, when you're expecting...
Bec Judd has been pregnant quite a lot: three pregnancies, three deliveries and four gorgeous newborn babies. From carrying a baby, delivering it, feeding it and raising it, Bec has experienced almost everything motherhood can throw at you...
Out of the Blue
A city girl's tale of true love and romance with a man on the land
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
When Joanna Fincham appeared on a popular reality TV program in 2008 looking for love, little did the viewers know that Jo had been suffering from depression on and off throughout life.
Jo, it seemed, was a vivacious city girl looking for love with a handsome farmer. On screen she appeared...
Not My Family, Never My Child
What to do if someone you love is a drug user
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
A practical handbook for anyone who suspects (or knows) someone they care about is a drug user.
Drawing on the tragic loss of his own son to a heroin overdose and over 20 years working as a counsellor, Tony Trimingham cuts through the media hype and politicking to address the real issues facing...
A Better Life
How our darkest moments can be our greatest gift
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
A frank and inspiring guide to living a happy, fulfilling life with the challenge of a mental health issue.
A Better Life is a rich blend of Craig Hamilton's own amazing story of how as a busy broadcaster, dad, husband and mental health campaigner, he lives with bipolar. Craig also shares the...
The Silence
How tragedy shapes talk
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
Silence can be a powerful form of communication. It is often the form that communication takes in the wake of unspeakable trauma. After a half a century, the Holocaust still dominates the homes of survivors and their families. Memory haunts and permeates the home, conditioning survivors' thoughts,...
Graeme Clark
The man who invented the bionic ear
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
As a young man, Graeme Clark read about Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie and other great scientists, little knowing that one day he would join their ranks. After watching his father struggle with hearing problems, Graeme knew he wanted to find a solution to deafness.
Graeme became a surgeon, and...
The Untrained Environmentalist
How an Australian grazier brought his barren property back to life
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Fifty years ago a young farmer named John Fenton took over his family's run-down sheep property in Victoria. Named Lanark, the property was barren, windswept and environmentally all but dead. Fenton set about bringing the property back to life by bringing the environment back to life. He planted trees....
by Louise Egerton, Jiri Lochman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
There is nothing to beat the extraordinary wildlife of Australia. Its colourful parrots, its venomous snakes, its abundance of hopping marsupials and the strange, egg-laying Platypus - these are just a few of the players in a story that began hundreds of millions of year ago.
Many members of...
Tsunami and the Single Girl
One woman's journey to become an aid worker and find love
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Set in humanitarian disaster zones around the world, Tsunami and the Single Girl is the story of Krissy Nicholson's journey to become an aid worker and her (seemingly) never-ending search to find a soul mate.
As a free-spirited traveller, Krissy--now almost thirty--needs her life to start taking...
Waging Peace
Reflections on peace and war from an unconventional woman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Looking back on a long and active life, Anne Deveson draws on a rich vein of public and private experiences to reflect on what made her the bold social commentator she became. Central among her lifelong preoccupations have been the questioning of war, and the promotion of peace.
Deveson describes...
by Henry Handel Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is Australia's most significant nineteenth-century work. It tells the story of Richard Mahony, loosely based on the author's own father, and his rise and tragic fall in Australia's gold rush.
Despite a happy marriage and children, Irish migrant Richard Mahony...