Scribe Publications Pty Ltd: 213 books
Lion Attack!
I’m trying to be honest and I want you to know that
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
From an inaugural winner of the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers comes a funny, energetic coming-of-age story that isn't quite like any other book you'll read this year.
Oliver is a writer who's just moved cities. He doesn't have any friends yet; he can't get his surly flatmate, Mark,...
Buckley’s Hope
a novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
This is a historical novel, based on the true story of a young English convict named William Buckley who, on Boxing Day 1803, escaped from Victoria’s abortive first settlement at Sorrento and then survived in the wilderness for thirty-two years, mainly because he was adopted and helped by local...
Stop Press
the last days of newspapers
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
There is a story that no one in the media seems willing to tell, one in which journalists have a vested interest: the death of newspapers. Traditionally known to break the biggest headlines, to chase the rumours to their source, and to undertake the most in-depth reporting, newspapers are now grappling...
No Way But This
in search of Paul Robeson
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr.
Paul Robeson was a prize-winning scholar and the greatest footballer of his era, even before he ascended to global superstardom as a singer, Hollywood actor, and activist. The son of an escaped slave, Robeson stunned audiences with ‘Ol’ Man River’ and...
by Emmanuel Macron
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
The bestselling memoir by France's president, Emmanuel Macron.
Some believe that our country is in decline, that the worst is yet to come, that our civilisation is withering away. That only isolation or civil strife are on our horizon. That to protect ourselves from the great transformations...
The Lost Boys
inside Muzafer Sherif’s Robbers Cave experiment
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
The fascinating true story of one of the most controversial psychological experiments of the modern era
Competition. Prejudice. Discrimination. Conflict.
In 1954, a group of boys attended a remote summer camp in Oklahoma. There they were split into two groups, and encouraged to bully,...
Wireless-Wise Families
what every parent needs to know about wireless technologies
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
We love them, we depend on them, we fill our homes with them — but how much do you know about mobile phones and other wireless devices and the radiation they emit?
Did you know, for example, that your use of wireless devices can affect your children, your unborn children, and even your chances...
Dark Emu
Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
History has portrayed Australia’s First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong.
In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people across the continent were building...
by Nadia Dalbuono
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
The second Leone Scamarcio thriller.
As autumn sets in, the queues outside the soup kitchens of Rome are lengthening, and the people are taking to the piazzas, increasingly frustrated by the deepening economic crisis.
Detective Leone Scamarcio is called to an apparent suicide on the...
by Barry Heard
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Sophisticated computer hacking told the syndicate everything about Wally. Everything but why it would be a big mistake to kidnap him.
Retired farmer Wally Flannagan is on a pilgrimage to Indonesia to witness the once-in-a-lifetime blooming of a rare flower. His holiday soon goes awry when he...
Walking the Camino
a modern pilgrimage to Santiago
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2007
In May 2006, armed only with a small rucksack and a staff, Tony Kevin, an overweight, sedentary, 63-year-old former diplomat, set off on an eight-week trek across Spain. But this was not just a very long walk — it was a pilgrimage.
From Granada, in the southeast, to Santiago de Compostela,...
by Michael McGirr
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
At the age of thirty-four, Michael McGirr decides to take his charming and inimitable mum on the honeymoon she and her late husband never got around to having. Between recounting their hilarious travels around Europe and meditating on the historical figures who dot their voyage — everyone from Hemingway...
by Heidi Sopinka
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
We grant men a right to solitude. Why can’t we do the same for women?
Born into a wealthy family in northern England and sent to boarding school to be educated by nuns, Ivory Frame rebels. She escapes to inter-war Paris, where she finds herself through art, and falls in with the most brilliantly...
The New Front Page
new media and the rise of the audience
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
A provocative, timely account of the changing face of journalism from a pioneer of the new-media revolution
For a long time, media organisations have controlled the news, treating their audiences as products for advertisers. Yet as journalism has moved online and behind paywalls, the public...