Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd: 316 books
One Way or Another
The Story of a Girl Who Loved Rock Stars
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
In 1981, fifteen-year-old Nikki McWatters is living in a Gold Coast suburb, dragging herself through humdrum schooldays and dreaming of losing her virginity to a rock star. With three friends she starts the Vulture Club for aspiring groupies – and so begins a festival of sex, drugs and rock ’n’...
Earth Dances
Music in Search of the Primitive
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Minimalism, savagery, the raw and the cooked, the primal and the pre-verbal, Elvis’s hips, The Rite of Spring … Earth Dances is an original investigation of how music and primitivism intersect – a dazzling journey through music and culture. With alternating chapters of criticism and interviews,...
AFA3 Australia and Indonesia
Can we be friends?
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
“While we can never ignore Indonesia’s potential as a threat, its potential as an ally is more important to us now than it has ever been.” Hugh White
The third issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines the turbulent relationship between Australia and Indonesia, and the missteps and...
Playing to Win
The Definitive Biography of John Farnham
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Teen idol. King of Pop. Voice of the common man. Australian of the Year. Friend. Icon. Superstar.
John Farnham is the quintessential Aussie legend. As a teenager he gave up an apprenticeship to chase his musical dreams, hitting the big time with ‘Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)’. A family man...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
‘Wonky, idiosyncratic, fragmentary, paradoxical, drunk on words, the essay has … a uniquely human thumbprint.’ —Geordie Williamson
In The Best Australian Essays 2015, Geordie Williamson compiles the year’s outstanding short non-fiction. Read Helen Garner on condescension, DBC Pierre...
The Sound of Pictures
Listening to the Movies, from Hitchcock to High Fidelity
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
The Sound of Pictures is an illuminating journey through the soundtracks of more than 400 films. How do filmmakers play with sound? And how does that affect the way we watch their movies? Whether pop or classical, sweeping or sparse, music plays a crucial role in our cinematic experience. Other sounds...
Quarterly Essay 64 The Australian Dream
Blood, History and Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2016
In a landmark essay, Stan Grant writes Indigenous people back into the economic and multicultural history of Australia. This is the fascinating story of how fringe dwellers fought not just to survive, but to prosper. Their legacy is the extraordinary flowering of Indigenous success – cultural, sporting,...
by Benjamin Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Now a major SBS television series!
Meet the Law family – eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide: Benjamin, the third of five children and a born humorist. Join him as he tries to answer some puzzling questions: Why won’t his Chinese dad wear made-in-China underpants? Why was...
Leather Soul
A Half-back Flanker's Rhythm and Blues
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
Bob Murphy has never been your average footballer. Music buff, Age columnist and Winnebago driver, he is as comfortable in the corner of a café or grungy pub as he is in the locker room.
Murphy takes us inside his 17-year career, including three years as Bulldogs captain, exploring the people...
High on Hawthorn
The Road to the 2013 Premiership
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
We’re a happy team at Hawthorn ... Well, ‘happy’ isn’t the word – more like delirious. I wept, I quaffed Veuve Clicquot, I hugged grown men ... The ether was abuzz with electronic missives, the very air alive and humming with Hawthorn transmissions. This book tracks Hawthorn’s triumphant...
From the Outer
Footy Like You've Never Heard It
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
A celebration of our great game, From the Outer brings together 30 personal stories about Aussie Rules from unexpected voices: those who are female, Indigenous or gay; those with a disability, a foreign accent or even – perhaps most dubious of all – literary leanings. Some are closet fans, some...
by Catherine Deveny
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Catherine Deveny on marriage, megachurches, plastic surgery, private schools, strip clubs, Sexpo, Hey Hey It’s Saturday and much, much more …
Take two reality pills and call me in the morning.
Swine Flu. Financial meltdown. It’s been a bad year for pigs and pigs in suits. The only...
Without My Mum
A Daughter's Guide to Grief, Loss and Reclaiming Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
When Leigh Van Der Horst lost her beloved mother to cancer in 2008, she faced her biggest battle yet. In Without My Mum, she invites us on a journey that is at times heartbreaking, others heartwarming, but ultimately comforting and inspiring. With warmth and candour, Leigh tells of her transformative...
Symphony of Seduction
The Great Love Stories of Classical Composers
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
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,...