Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd: 316 books
Quarterly Essay 25 Bipolar Nation
How to Win the 2007 Election
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
In Bipolar Nation, Peter Hartcher discusses the fantasies and realities at the heart of our politics. When our political leaders look at us, what do they see? What are the hopes, fears and dreams of the Australian electorate, and how might they be turned to election winning advantage? What, most fundamentally,...
Blue Collar Frayed
Working Men in Tomorrow’s Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
‘I remember with incredible clarity the question that rang through his words and hung in the air between us, the query that hurt my head and heart as his baggy eyes held mine: where does someone like me fit, now?’
Jennifer Rayner knows a thing or two about blue-collar blokes: her brother,...
I Am Melba
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2009
The story of an Australian girl who defied convention and became the most famous singer of her era.
Growing up in Melbourne, Nellie Mitchell dreamed of fame, but her devout father disapproved. When a chance arose to go to Paris, she trusted in her musical talent and hoped for a lucky break.
Within...
Ghost Wife
A Memoir of Love and Defiance
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Michelle Dicinoski has found the love of her life, and now she just wants to get married and live happily ever after. The only problem is, she’s in love with an American woman, Heather, and neither Australia nor America recognises same-sex marriage. What to do when love and the law collide? For...
Quarterly Essay 22 Voting for Jesus
Christianity and Politics in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2006
From the Hillsong Church to the Family First Party, Australia appears to be experiencing an evangelical revival. In Voting for Jesus, Amanda Lohrey investigates that revival – its shape and scope, and what it means for the mainstream churches and the nation's politics. She talks to young believers...
by Andrew Ford
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
In this evocative and moving book, composer and broadcaster Andrew Ford shares the vivid musical experiences – good, bad and occasionally hilarious – that have shaped his life.
Ford’s musical journey has traversed genres and continents, and his loves are broad and deep. The Memory of...
The Art of Time Travel
Historians and Their Craft
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
No matter how practised we are at history, it always humbles us. No matter how often we visit the past, it always surprises us. The art of time travel is to maintain critical poise and grace in this dizzy space.
In this landmark book, eminent historian and award-winning author Tom Griffiths...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
These stories are breath-takers, the ones which render nothing more important than discovering what happens next. —Sonya Hartnett
The Best Australian Stories 2012 is the country’s premier annual collection of short fiction. This year sees Sonya Hartnett select thirty-two remarkable stories...
The 10 Rules of Rock and Roll
Collected Music Writings 2005-09
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Sometimes I play a game in my head: name the five best American rock bands of the ’60s. My list goes: The Velvet Underground, The Byrds, The Beach Boys, The Doors, and then I stall on the fifth. Creedence? The Band – although they’re mostly Canadian. Simon and Garfunkel? Jefferson Airplane?...
Mother of Rock
The Lillian Roxon Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
From the pubs of the Sydney Push to New York’s legendary nightclubs, Lillian Roxon set the pace for an era that changed the world. Audacious, independent and fiercely intelligent, by eighteen she was cutting her writing teeth in the colourful world of Sydney tabloid journalism. She moved to New York...
Crossing the Line
Australia’s Secret History in the Timor Sea
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
For fifty years, Australia has schemed to deny East Timor billions of dollars of oil and gas wealth.
With explosive new research and access to never-before- seen documents, Kim McGrath tells the story of Australia’s secret agenda in the Timor Sea, exposing the ruthlessness of successive governments....
The Latte Years
A Story of Losses, Gains and Life Beyond the After Photo
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
At twenty-four Philippa Moore is overweight, unhappily married, and still living in her hometown of Hobart, Tasmania. After a wake-up call in a department-store changing room, Phil suddenly realises that she is on the wrong path. With determination she starts to shed the kilos, and makes a confronting...
by Dave O'Neil
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Do you remember finishing your last Year 12 exam and wondering what to do next? Do you remember waiting for your results and being stuck in limbo? Do you remember going to gigs, forming a band, getting bottles thrown at you by skinheads, making a bomb and getting arrested? Do you remember hitchhiking...
Quarterly Essay 51 The Prince
Faith, Abuse and George Pell
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
The leading Catholic in the nation and spiritual adviser to Tony Abbott, Cardinal George Pell has played a key role in the greatest challenge to face his church for centuries: the scandal of child sex abuse by priests.
In The Prince, David Marr investigates the man and his career: how did he...