Scribe Publications

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Scribe has been operating as a wholly independent trade-publishing house for more than 40 years. What started off in 1976 as a desire on publisher Henry Rosenbloom’s part to publish ‘serious non-fiction’ as a one-man band has turned into a multi-award-winning company with more than 25 staff members in Melbourne, Australia and London, England.

THE NEWCOMER

Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Newly arrived in a sleepy Pacific island town, Paulina Novak is known for her hard drinking, disastrous relationships and troubled past. And when Paulina is found murdered, her mother Judy is determined to find justice for her daughter — whatever it takes.

• A chilling and evocative novel based on a real-life murder, The Newcomer is a tense psychological drama for readers of Kate Mildenhall and Ottessa Moshfegh.

• Laura Elizabeth Woollett explores the spectrum of human emotion with great psychological acuity, questioning the media’s fascination with murdered women and society’s need for ‘perfect’ female victims.

RELEASE DATE: 07/2021 IsBn: 9781922310231 RRP (AUD): $32.99 FORMAT: PB, 368pp RIGHTS: World ex North America CATEGORY: Fiction

THE GOLDEN BOOK

Kate Ryan

On the cusp of adulthood, Ali and Jessie were inseparable — until a devastating accident changed everything. Years later, when Ali hears news of Jessie’s death, she is forced to reckon with the events of that summer. As old secrets come to light, Kate Ryan asks profound questions about responsibility and blame — and, ultimately, about love.

• ‘A gorgeous evocation of the wildness of youth, and of what it takes to find love after disaster. Kate Ryan writes from the heart. Earthy, lovely, and profound. A beautiful, resonant book.’ — Peggy Frew, author of Islands.

RELEASE DATE: 08/2021 ISBN: 9781922310088 RRP (AUD): $29.99 FORMAT: PB, 240pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Fiction

CRIMES AGAINST NATURE

Jeff Sparrow

Taking the familiar narrative about global warming — the one in which we are all to blame — and inverting it, Jeff Sparrow shows how, again and again, pollution and ecological devastation have been imposed on the population without our consent and (often) against our will.

• From global histories of destruction, Walkley Award-winning journalist Jeff Sparrow distils stories of hope, highlighting the yearning for a more sustainable world — and the power and promise of ordinary people.

RELEASE DATE: 11/2021 ISBN: 9781922310705 RRP (AUD): $29.99 FORMAT: PB, 240pp RIGHTS: World CATEGORY: Non-fiction

A ROOM CALLED EARTH

Madeleine Ryan

A brilliant debut from a neurodiverse author that explores a young woman’s magical, sensitive, and passionate inner world. A young woman gets ready to go to a party. She arrives, feels overwhelmed, leaves, and then returns. Minutely attuned to the people who come into her view, and alternating between alienation and profound connection, she is hilarious, self-aware, sometimes acerbic, and always honest — and by the end of the night, she’s shown us something radical about love, loss, and the need to belong.

• ‘The dazzling directness of her prose opens thrilling new doors into the female experience of the sexual, spiritual and social worlds … The smart, magical voice Madeleine Ryan has found in A Room Called Earth is unlike anything else you’ll find this year.’ — The Independent.

RELEASE DATE: 03/2021 ISBN: 9781925849776 RRP (AUD): $29.99 FORMAT: PB, 304pp RIGHTS: World ex North America, Russia CATEGORY: Fiction