[2] Schwarz is the author of Memories of Empire: The White Man's World, which was Book of the Year at the Longman/History Today Awards in 2013.
[6] Schwarz has written and edited books on postcolonialism, British cultural and political history, and 20th-century Caribbean and North American writers including George Lamming, Earl Lovelace, and James Baldwin.
[7][8] He co-authored Stuart Hall's posthumously published memoir Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands (2017), about which Colin Grant wrote in The Guardian: "The conversational tone of the book has emerged from the hours of interviews Schwarz conducted with Hall over a number of years.
Answering the need to reduce this material to a manageable form, he arranges each chapter with a foreword, argument and afterword, which gives the flavour of an extended series of talks. ...
"[9] The reviewer for Black Perspectives concluded: "An undeniable boon to cultural and postcolonial studies, Stuart Hall and Bill Schwarz's Familiar Stranger turns the traditional memoir on its head, and produced an engaging exchange about race, identity, colonialism, and culture.