Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd: 316 books
My First Lesson
Stories Inspired by Laurinda
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
“The stories in this anthology are special because they capture the school experience with rare authenticity. These are not adults writing about teenagers, but real young adult writers.” —Alice Pung Award-winning author Alice Pung has selected 25 diverse stories written by high school students...
The Fireflies of Autumn
And Other Tales of San Ginese
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
San Ginese is a village where God lingers in people’s minds and many dream of California, Argentina or Australia. Some leave only to return feeling disheartened, wishing they had never come back, some never leave and forever wish they had.
The Fireflies of Autumn takes us to the olive groves...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
‘Some readers are drawn to the promise inherent in a novel, and it’s true that the longer form can offer a slow and seductive immersion, but the short story offers pleasure of another kind – the quick fix, a shot of adrenaline to the mind and heart.’ —Amanda Lohrey
In The Best Australian...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
In The Best Australian Stories, acclaimed writer Maxine Beneba Clarke brings together our country’s leading literary talents. Herself an award-winning short-story writer, Beneba Clarke selects exceptional stories that resonate with experience and truth, and celebrate the art of storytelling.
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by Laura Jean McKay
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Shortlisted for the Glenda Adams Award for New Writing in the 2014 NSW Premier's Literary Awards
Beyond the killing fields and the temples of Angkor is Cambodia: a country with a genocidal past and a wide, open smile. A frontier land where anything is possible – at least for the tourists.
In...
Quarterly Essay 69 Moment of Truth
History and Australia's Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Australia is on the brink of momentous change, but only if its citizens and politicians can come to new terms with the past.
In this inspiring essay, Mark McKenna considers the role of history in making and unmaking the nation. From Captain Cook to the frontier wars, from Australia Day to the...
The Words That Made Australia
How a Nation Came to Know Itself
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
This is not a book of documents, snippets or worthy speeches. Instead it presents the original essays and the moments of insight that told us what Australia is and could be.
These are the essential statements – from historians, reporters, novelists, mavericks and visionaries – that take...
Quarterly Essay 24 No Fixed Address
Nomads and the Fate of the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2006
After many thousands of years, the nomads are disappearing, swept away by modernity. Robyn Davidson has spent a good part of her life with nomadic cultures – in Australia, north-west India, Tibet and the Indian Himalayas – and she herself calls three countries home. In this Quarterly Essay, she...
by Robyn Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu Sadhu, leaving behind family and wealth to live as a beggar; the pilgrims of Compostela walking away their sins; the circumambulators of the Buddhist...
Stand and Deliver
Fifty Years of the National Press Club of Australia
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
If Australian politics and public policy is a war of ideas, the National Press Club is the battleground. For the past half-century, the NPC has been the epicentre of political and social debate in Australia. Leaders and opinion-makers have used its stage to launch leadership bids, rattle the cage of...
Quarterly Essay 48 After the Future
Australia's New Extinction Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Australia is home to many animals and plants found nowhere else on earth, making Australians caretakers of a unique heritage in a land that tolerates few mistakes. Yet, in After the Future, Tim Flannery shows that this country is now on the brink of a new wave of extinctions, which threatens to leave...
Swooning
A Classical Music Guide to Life, Love, Lust and Other Follies
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
The orchestra has tuned, the lights in the hall have dimmed, and the conductor’s baton signals the downbeat for the beginning of the romance. Settle back – it’s telling you something… The history of classical music is littered with murder, adultery, bigamy, fraud, sado-masochism, riches, poverty,...
Quarterly Essay 7 Paradise Betrayed
West Papua's Struggle for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
In Paradise Betrayed John Martinkus details what is being done to West Papua by its Indonesian overlords. He illustrates how those who seek independence are killed and tortured for their cause. There is now no one like the Papuan leader Theys Eluay, murdered in 2001 by the Indonesian military, and...
by General Sir John Monash, GCMG, KCB
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Monash in his own words …
War Letters of General Monash
This collection of extraordinary, intimate letters from General Sir John Monash to his wife and daughter, records his experiences throughout World War I, from landing at Gallipoli to leading decisive victories on the Western Front....