Scribe imprint: 233 books
Asbestos House
the secret history of James Hardie Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2006
Founded in 1888, James Hardie Industries is one of Australia’s oldest, richest and proudest corporations. And its fortunes were based on what proved to be one of the worst industrial poisons of the twentieth century: asbestos.
Asbestos House, the name of the grand headquarters that Hardie...
In the Land of Giants
hunting monsters in the Hindu Kush
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
‘The imagination has its sanctuaries, too.’
High up in the Hindu Kush, between the ancient pagan Kalash people and the new medievalists of the Taliban, a charismatic young Spaniard, Jordi Magraner, made his home, mastering the local languages and customs before meeting his death in the...
Modern Manglish
gobbledygook made plain
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
‘It’s dog eat dog in this rat race.’
‘We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it.’
‘I hope to come first or second, or at least to win it.’
The information superhighway brings more text to our door than ever before. It’s just that most of it gets mangled along...
Digital vs Human
how we'll live, love, and think in the future
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
From the author of the international bestseller Future Files comes the one book you need to read to prepare for the world of tomorrow.
On most measures that matter, we’ve never had it so good. Physically, life for humankind has improved immeasurably over the last fifty years. Yet there is...
Beloved Land
stories, struggles, and secrets from Timor-Leste
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
WINNER OF THE 2014 ACT BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
At the stroke of midnight on 20 May 2002, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste became the first new nation of the 21st century. From that moment, those who fought for independence have faced a challenge even bigger than shaking off Indonesian...
by Richard Broinowski
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
On a calm afternoon in March 2011, a force-nine earthquake jolted the Pacific Ocean seabed east of Japan. Forty minutes later, a tsunami 21 metres high crashed onto the coast of Fukushima, Miyagi, and Iwate prefectures. Towns collapsed, villages were destroyed, and 16,000 people were swept away. The...
by Peter Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
The Black Saturday bushfires killed 173 people — wreaking a greater human toll than any other fire in Australia’s history. Ten of those victims died in Steels Creek, a small community on Melbourne’s outskirts. It was a beautiful place, which its residents had long treasured and loved. By the...
by Denis Muller
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Journalism is being transformed by the digital revolution. Journalists working for media organisations are having to file and update stories across multiple platforms under increasing time pressures. Meanwhile, anyone with sufficient literacy skills and access to the internet can aspire to practise...
Journalism at the Crossroads
crisis and opportunity for the press
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
A lively, spirited, and stirring critique of what is wrong with the Australian press — and how we might go about fixing it.
As newspaper subscription-rates decline, and mastheads lament what appears to be a broken business model, the future of journalism is uncertain. Yet, in an age of spin...
by J.M. Green
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 NED KELLY AWARDS, BEST FIRST FICTION
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 SISTERS IN CRIME’S DAVITT AWARDS FOR BEST DEBUT CRIME BOOK
Introducing Stella Hardy, a wisecracking social worker with a thirst for social justice, good laksa, and alcohol.
Stella’s phone...
Empty Brain — Happy Brain
how thinking is overrated
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Find the happiness of emptiness.
Few things scare us more than inner emptiness. The presumed emptiness of coma or dementia scares us so much that we even sign living wills to avoid these states. Yet as Zen masters have long known, inner emptiness can also be productive and useful. We can reach...
A Long Time Coming
essays on ageing
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 NIB: WAVERLEY LIBRARY AWARD FOR LITERATURE
A powerful collection of essays exploring what it means to grow old in our youth-obsessed world
To live a long life should be a joy; to be old should not be a burden.
With improved health care and higher standards...
Our Ageing Brain
how our mental capacities develop as we grow older
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
An international bestseller delivering good news on brain function and ageing
We all worry sometimes that our brains — particularly our memories — just don’t work as well as they used to. In this illuminating book, internationally acclaimed Dutch neuroscientist André Aleman shows that...
by Lutz Seiler
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
The lyrical, bestselling 2014 German Book Prize winner.
It is 1989, and a young literature student named Ed, fleeing unspeakable tragedy, travels to the Baltic island of Hiddensee. Long shrouded in myth, the island is a notorious destination for hippies, idealists, and those at odds with the...