Allen & Unwin
The Passengers
The Passengers is an intergenerational historical novel set in both the tail end of World War Two and the present…
The Family with Two Front Doors
The reader is ushered into a home with the smells of baked bread and tasty home cooking. The Rabinovitch family…
Codename Suzette: An Extraordinary Story of Resistance and Rescue in Nazi Paris
This book is both uplifting and horrifying. It charts the occupation of Paris by the Nazis in WW2 and their…
Into the White: Scott’s Antarctic Odyssey
A first novel, and based on the true and well-known story of Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in…
Miss Muriel Matters: The Fearless Suffragist Who Fought for Equality
The history of the Woman’s Suffrage movement is dominated by a handful of well-known names. Wainwright’s excellent biography adds a…
The Opal Dragonfly
Editors' choice
Set in Sydney, Australia in the mid-1800s, The Opal Dragonfly recounts the financial and social descent of a wealthy, privileged…
The Last Hours
June 1348: When Lady Anne of Develish loses her husband to the Black Death, she takes charge of his demesne…
Into the World
It is 1791, and the ships of the La Perouse expedition have gone missing somewhere in the Great Southern Ocean.…
Freedom Swimmer
1968. Guangdong Province, China. Somehow, the 17-year-old Ming has survived a three-year famine, though he lost his family. He now…
We That Are Left
Set in Melbourne during World War II, this novel tells the parallel stories of two women: Grace Fowler, who works…
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