Schwartz Books Pty Ltd : 12 books

The Amazing Adventures of Grover McBane, Rescue Dog brings together the five classic stories about this inspirational dog into one book for the first time: Grover Finds a Home (Shortlisted for the Readings Children’s Book Prize 2017) Grover's New Friends Grover Benji and...

Meet Pelle No-Tail – Sweden’s favourite cat! Little Pelle has no tail – it was bitten off by a rat when he was a kitten! But he doesn’t let that bother him. When Pelle leaves the farm where he was born and goes to live in the city, he meets lots of new friends and has all sorts...

**Everywhere you look there’s a motivational quote to greet you. Pursue your passion! Nothing is impossible! Happiness is a journey, not a destination!** But what if there is actually scant evidence to back up these shimmering proclamations? What if positive thinking does not, in fact,...

A revelatory portrait of one of the most talented, poised and respected Australian politicians, written by one of Australia’s foremost biographers. Senator Penny Wong is an extraordinary Australian politician. Resolute, self-possessed and a penetrating thinker on subjects from climate change...

When New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, announced her pregnancy, the headlines raced around the world. But when Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg became the first prime minister and treasurer duo since the 1970s to take on the roles while bringing up young children, this detail passed...

A BRILLIANT COLLECTION FROM ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S LEADING WRITERS Close to Home brings together Alice Pung’s most loved writing, on topics such as migration, family, art, belonging and identity. Warm, funny, moving and unfailingly honest, this is Alice at her best – an irresistible pleasure...

I’m a Wathaurong man. I’m an artist who draws on life in this big red and yellow and black country. Stan “Yarra” Yarramunua: artist, musician, actor, social worker, businessman. From growing up in poverty in Swan Hill – and sometimes on the road, with his itinerant father –...

The fog of Australian politics on climate change has obscured a fateful reality: Australia has the potential to be an economic superpower of the future post-carbon world. We have unparalleled renewable energy resources. We also have the necessary scientific skills. Australia could be the natural...

Grover loves living at Cavendish Lane. He has his own bed and lots of toys. It’s the best place to relax after a busy day helping his owner, Annie, at the animal shelter. But when a greyhound puppy called Stretch comes to stay, Grover’s life is turned upside down. Stretch has a broken leg....

‘Life is not a measuring stick,’ a school guidance counsellor told Kasey Edwards thirty years ago. Well, that turned out to be a lie. Now in her forties, Kasey reflects on how being a woman often feels like a test. One she flunks. From her body to her mothering skills, relationships and...

Michael Smith spent 20 years restoring Melbourne’s beloved Sun Theatre and becoming one of Australia’s last independent cinema operators. He then set off on a rather different journey: to become the first person to fly solo around the world in an amphibious plane. With limited flying experience,...

Dear Reader – This is not a book about coping with unbelievable busyness. It’s a book about making it stop. What if I told you that a lot of what keeps you unbelievably busy is not only pointless, but avoidable, nonsensical and entirely driven by your own fears, insecurities and ego? You’d...