Scribe imprint: 233 books
Made in Sweden
25 ideas that created a country
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
What are the real Swedish Values? Who is the real Swedish Model?
In recent times, we have come to favour all things Scandi — their food, furnishings, fiction, fashion, and general way of life. We seem to regard the Swedes and their Scandinavian neighbours as altogether more sophisticated,...
by Amanda Curtin
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
It has taken a lifetime for me to see that the more afraid people are of the darkness, the further into it they will flee.
Nearing the end of her life, Meggie Tulloch takes up her pen to write a story for her granddaughter. It begins in the first years of the twentieth century, in a place where...
The Energy-Freedom Home
how to wipe out electricity and gas bills in nine steps
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
The average Australian household spends over $2,000 a year on gas and electricity bills. Now, not only can you reduce those bills, but you can even wipe them out, while making your home more comfortable.
Paying for energy is the largest running cost that most home-owners are burdened with....
The Fabulous Flying Mrs Miller
a true story of murder, adventure, danger, romance, and derring-do
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
The remarkable true story of a beguiling Melbourne housewife who in the 1920s seeks international fame, fortune and adventure as an aviator and finds herself as the central figure in a sensational American murder trial.
'Mrs Keith Miller, internationally known aviatrix, was taken to the county...
Pills, Powder, and Smoke
inside the bloody war on drugs
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2019
Like the never-ending war on terror, the drugs war is a multi-billion-dollar industry that won’t go down without a fight. Pills, Powder, and Smoke explains why.
The war on drugs has been official American policy since the 1970s, with the UK, Europe, and much of the world following suit. It...
Human Rights Overboard
seeking asylum in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
In 2005, in the wake of the Cornelia Rau scandal, a citizen’s inquiry was established to bear witness to events in Australia’s immigration-detention facilities. Until then, the federal government had refused to conduct a broad-ranging investigation into immigration detention, and the operations...
by Lindsay Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Behind the prosperous, genteel landscape of the inner city lies a very different world of hardship and insecurity – where a roof over your head is never guaranteed.
Jack van Duyn is a Melbourne taxi-driver in his mid-fifties, living alone in a dingy Brunswick flat. He’s settled into a drab...
by Peggy Frew
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
WINNER OF THE 2010 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD PRIZE FOR AN UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD UTS GLENDA ADAMS AWARD FOR NEW WRITING
Bonnie has given up her life as a musician to become a stay-at-home mum. She tells herself she has no...
by Jacinta Halloran
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Doctor Anna McBride’s life is starting to unravel. The mother of two boys and a dedicated GP, she is being sued for medical negligence — a case of delayed diagnosis. Anna’s day-to-day work becomes increasingly difficult as she starts to scrutinise her every action and question her worth. Deeply...
Come Spring
an autobiographical novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2002
'I wasn't happy. I wasn't unhappy. I was there at that time and that was all. I didn't involve myself in philosophical reflections, but my mind was like a camera, imprinting forever the idyllic beauty of the European summer of 1939.'
The idyll does not last long. Within days a young Jewish...
by Robert Gott
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
The Port Fairy Murders is the sequel to The Holiday Murders, a political and historical crime novel set in 1943, featuring the newly formed homicide department of Victoria Police.
The department has been struggling to counter little-known fascist groups, particularly an organisation called...
Inglorious Empire
what the British did to India
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British in India — from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj — and reveals how Britain’s rise was built upon its plunder of India.
In the eighteenth century, India’s share of the world economy was as large as Europe’s....
Pompey Elliott at War
in his own words
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Hundreds of Australian first-person narratives of World War I have been published, but none more riveting than this one.
The wartime letters and diaries of Pompey Elliott, Australia’s most famous fighting general, are exceptionally forthright. They are also remarkably illuminating about his...
The Museum of Words
a memoir of language, writing, and mortality
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
In late 2015, Georgia Blain was diagnosed with a tumour sitting right in the language centre of her brain. Prior to this, Georgia’s only warning had been a niggling sense that her speech was slightly awry. She ignored it, and on a bright spring day, as she was mowing the lawn, she collapsed on a...