Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd: 316 books
The May Beetles
My First Twenty Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Baba Schwartz’s story began before the Holocaust could have been imagined. As a spirited girl in a warm and loving Jewish family, she lived a normal life in a small town in eastern Hungary. In The May Beetles, Baba describes the innocence and excitement of her childhood, remembering her early years...
by Andor Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
They have no graves, no markers of ever having existed. The millions of people murdered by the Nazis live on only in the memories of the survivors. In his seventy-ninth year, Andor Schwartz was driven to record the lives of his family and friends who perished. Writing with the instincts of a born storyteller,...
State of the Nation
Essays for Robert Manne
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
A stunning collection of essays that analyses the major issues facing Australia today This nation has a lot of unfinished business. Will we become a republic any time soon? How can we honour our Indigenous peoples and tackle the intractable disadvantage they face? What does our treatment of asylum seekers...
AFA1 The Big Picture
Towards an Independent Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
‘We need to determine a foreign policy of our own – one that looks after Australia’s interest in the new order; an order which will have China as its centre of gravity.’ —Paul Keating
Australia’s top thinkers on foreign affairs address the most significant foreign affairs dynamics...
It's Your Money
How Banking went Rogue, Where it is Now and How to Protect and Grow Your Money
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2019
You don’t need to be an expert to manage your money well, but you do need to know how to choose trustworthy advisers and services.
In It’s Your Money, Alan Kohler, one of Australia’s most trusted financial experts, offers unique insights into and thorough analysis of the crisis in financial...
Penguin and the Lane Brothers
The Untold Story of a Publishing Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
An intimate partnership of three brothers – Allen, Richard and John Lane – lay at the heart of Penguin Books, the twentieth century’s greatest publishing house. In a spirit of daring and creative opposition, the brothers issued quality books on a massive scale and at minuscule prices – and achieved...
Outback Penguin
Richard Lane's Barwell Diaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Richard Lane was one of three brothers who founded Penguin Books in 1935.
But like all great stories, his life didn’t start there.
After sailing to Adelaide in 1922, Richard began work as a boy migrant – a farm apprentice living in rural South Australia as part of the ‘Barwell...
Our Man Elsewhere
In Search of Alan Moorehead
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
A world-famous Australian writer, an inspiration to Robert Hughes and Clive James, a legendary war correspondent who also wrote bestselling histories of exploration and conservation . . . and yet forgotten? In this dazzling book, Thornton McCamish delves into the past to reclaim a remarkable figure,...
Gazing at the Stars
Memories of a Child Survivor
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
In March 1939, seven-year-old Eva Weiss’s innocence was shattered by Germany’s invasion of her homeland, Slovakia. Over the next five years, as the Nazi persecution of Europe’s Jews gathered momentum, Eva’s parents were forced to send their children into hiding, but she and her sister Marta could...
Battlers and Billionaires
The Story of Inequality in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Is Australia fair enough? And why does inequality matter anyway?
In Battlers and Billionaires, Andrew Leigh weaves together vivid anecdotes, interesting history and powerful statistics to tell the story of inequality in this country. This is economics writing at its best.
From egalitarian...
Clear and Concise
Become a Better Business Writer
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
How well do you write?
Good communication is a skill required by all professionals. Whether you're preparing reports, conducting reviews or simply writing emails, expressing your ideas clearly and persuasively is fundamental to your success in the workplace.
Susan McKerihan has spent...
by Clare Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Rosie and Nona are sisters. Yapas.
They are also best friends. It doesn’t matter that Rosie is white and Nona is Aboriginal: their family connections tie them together for life.
The girls are inseparable until Nona moves away at the age of nine. By the time she returns, they’re in...
by Anna Goldsworthy
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
When classical pianist Anna Goldsworthy falls pregnant with her first child, she is both excited and anxious about what lies ahead. Should she indulge her craving for sausage after sixteen years without meat? Will her birth plan involve Enya or hypnosis, or neither? And just how worried should she...
Use Your Words
A Myth-Busting, No-Fear Approach to Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Want to write? Got a memoir, novel, screenplay or blog in your back drawer? Need to get ‘unstuck’? This is the magic pill you’ve been looking for.
In Use Your Words writer and comedian Catherine Deveny reveals the secrets that have made her ‘Gunnas’ Writing Masterclasses sell-out...