Scribe Publications Pty Ltd: 213 books
Plots and Prayers
Malcolm Turnbull’s demise and Scott Morrison’s ascension
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
In an enthralling sequel to her bestselling The Road to Ruin, Niki Savva reveals the inside story of a bungled coup that overthrew the Liberal prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, and installed a surprise successor, Scott Morrison, who went on to take the party to a miraculous electoral victory.
On...
by Dawood Amiri
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Dawood Amiri is an ethnic Hazara who, as a young man, made the fateful decision to flee the terror being inflicted on his people, and seek asylum in Australia. He arrived in Indonesia in 2010, but was eventually captured when he was about to board a boat headed for Christmas Island. After a long stint...
by George Megalogenis
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2006
Paul Keating and John Howard altered the nation’s body-clock. Between them, they dominated 30 years of power, as both treasurers and prime ministers. Typically, they have been seen only as antagonists with competing visions of Australia and its place in the world. In The Longest Decade, however,...
Biting Through
five years in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
John Ratcliffe is a quiet man, not the type of person who stands out in a crowd or draws attention to himself. But scratch the surface and you will find a person who has lived anything but a normal life.
Once belonging to a group of highly trained soldiers, Ratcliffe left the Australian military...
The Rise of the Fifth Estate
social media and blogging in Australian politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
The Rise of the Fifth Estate is the first book to examine the emergence of social media as a new force in the coverage of Australian politics.
Using original research, Greg Jericho reveals who makes up the Australian political blogosphere, and tackles head-on some of its key developments —...
by Lindsay Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
An astute novel about Australian racism — and about humanity prevailing over entrenched prejudice.
Jack Van Duyn is stuck in his comfort zone. A pot-bellied, round-shouldered cabbie in his mid-fifties, Jack lives alone, has few friends, and gets very little out of life. He has a negative...
Rodrigo Duterte
fire and fury in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
The first biography of Rodrigo Duterte, the murderous, unpredictable president of the Philippines, a fascinating, fearsome man and the embodiment of populism in our time.
Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines in 2016. In his first 18 months in office, 12,000 people were murdered...
by Jill Jolliffe
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Now reissued as a revised, film tie-in edition
In October 1975, during the decolonisation of Portuguese Timor, five young television reporters travelled from Australia to report on the brewing unrest in the region. It was a journey that would be their last: Greg Shackleton, Gary Cunningham,...
Well Done, Those Men
memoirs of a Vietnam veteran
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2005
In this intensely personal account, Barry Heard draws on his own experiences as a young conscript, along with those of his comrades, to look back at life before, during, and after the Vietnam War. The result is a sympathetic vision of a group of young men who were sent off to war completely unprepared...
by Shashi Tharoor
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018
Shashi Tharoor offers a profound re-examination of Hinduism, one of the world's oldest and greatest religious traditions.
Opening with a frank and touching reflection on his personal beliefs, he lays out Hinduism's origins and its key philosophical concepts — including Vedanta, the...
The Woman Who Fooled The World
Belle Gibson's cancer con, and the darkness at the heart of the wellness industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Belle Gibson convinced the world she had healed herself of terminal brain cancer by eating a healthy diet. She built a global business based on her story. There was just one problem: she never had cancer in the first place.
In 2015, journalists uncovered the truth behind Gibson’s lies. This...
Letting Go
how to plan for a good death
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
‘Too frequently, we leave it too late to start to think — but a crisis is never the best time for careful thought.’
As Australia's population ages, many individuals are faced with making complex medical decisions, for themselves and for others, in times of great stress. How far should...
Pozieres
the Anzac story
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
In 1916, one million men fought in the first battle of the Somme. Victory hinged on their ability to capture a small village called Pozières. After five attempts to seize it, the British called in the Anzacs to complete this seemingly impossible task.
At midnight on 23 July 1916, thousands...
When This Thing Happened
the story of a father, a son, and the wars that changed them
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
A tour de force about the impact of war on one family over the twentieth century.
Working at the Australian War Memorial for many years, Michael McKernan had heard and written about many stories of war. For him, war was never about the big picture; it always came down to the individual. Yet...