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10/12/2025

🎁✨️ SCRIBE CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY #2✨️🎁⁠
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🌠 NONFICTION BUNDLE 🌠 ⁠
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Here at Scribe we believe that real life is often wilder than fiction, and that nonfiction books are an essential way to help us navigate our many complex realities. This Christmas, we're giving the gift of nonfiction, 11 books that span the worlds of science, psychology, justice and politics, true crime, folk mythology, photography and so more, (and an incredibly large and sturdy Scribe tote bag), to one lucky winner!!!⁠
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📚️ THE BOOKS 📚️⁠
📕 Science Under Siege by Michael Mann () and Peter Hotez () ⁠
📕 The Butterfly Thief by Walter Marsh ()⁠
⁠📕 Ernest Rutherford and the Birth of Modern Physics by Matthew Wright⁠
⁠📕 Pride and Prejudices by Keio Yoshida ()⁠
⁠📕 The Sirens' Call by Chris Hayes ()⁠
⁠📕 The Gifts of Reading for the Next Generation inspired by Robert Macfarlane () and curated by Jennie Orchard (.orchard⁠
⁠📕 Healthy Happy ADHD by Lisa Dee () ⁠
⁠📕 Atlantic Furies by Midge Gillies ()⁠
⁠📕 Monsterland by Nicholas Jubber ()⁠
⁠📕 Beyond Suburbia by Warren Kirk ()⁠
⁠📕 The Devil Takes Bitcoin by Jake Adelstein ()⁠
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TO WIN:⁠
- HEAD OVER TO OUR INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT , and follow instrux on our most recent post.
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✨ Competition closes 17 December, for Australian and New Zealand-based accounts ✨⁠
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Love Scribe⁠ ♥️

10/12/2025

🎁✨️ SCRIBE CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY ✨️🎁⁠
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🧚🏽‍♂️ FICTION BUNDLE 🧚🏽‍♂️⁠
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Here at Scribe, we believe that a seriously good book can be a life-changing gift for a loved one. This Christmas, we're giving the gift of immersive narratives, compelling characters, and transformative new worlds — a giveaway of 12 of our most exciting 2025 fiction releases (and an incredibly large and sturdy Scribe tote bag) to one lucky winner!!! 12 new stories to inspire and uplift your family and friends. ⁠
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📚️ THE BOOKS 📚️⁠
📘 The Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung (), translated by Anton Hur () ⁠
📘 Fireweather by Miranda Darling ()⁠
📘 I Ate the Whole World to Find You by Rachel Ang ()⁠
📘 Time Together by Luke Horton () ⁠
📘 The Knowing by Madeleine Ryan ()⁠
📘 Kataraina by Becky Manawatu () ⁠
📘 Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq (), translated by Deepa Bhasthi ()⁠
📘 The Four Spent the Day Together by Chris Kraus ()⁠
📘 People with No Charisma by Jente Posthuma (), translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey ()⁠
📘 Mayra by Nicky Gonzalez ⁠(.gee)⁠
📘 Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty () ⁠
📘 Burning Seasons by Nana Howton ⁠
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TO WIN:⁠
- HEAD OVER TO OUR INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT , and follow instrux on our most recent post.
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✨ Competition closes 17 December, for Australian and New Zealand-based accounts ✨⁠
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Love Scribe⁠ ♥️

02/12/2025

PUBLICATION DAY⁠
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A Historian in Gaza ⁠
by Jean-Pierre Filiu ⁠
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‘The Gaza I knew, and whose length and breadth I’ve travelled, has ceased to exist.’⁠
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Jean-Pierre Filiu, acclaimed historian of Gaza, is intimately familiar with the land’s people and places; he speaks the local dialect. But nothing prepared him for what he encountered there in December 2024. This is his account of just one month in a place shattered by Israel.⁠
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When the historian returned to Gaza in late 2024, he arrived under circumstances unimaginably different from his many past visits since 1980: this time, only two convoys were allowed into the Strip each week, and he was one of the few humanitarians able to enter, by night. He remained inside for 33 days, and emerged determined to bear witness to the devastation — to the Gazans fighting simply to live, every single day.⁠
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Filiu’s portrait of a land betrayed is a grim work of war reportage, documented with the acuity of a historian; and a lyrical narrative of human suffering, and human dignity.⁠
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A Historian in Gaza is out now 📚️

21/11/2025

❗️OUT TODAY❗️⁠
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EARTHQUAKE: the election that shook Australia, by Niki Savva⁠
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‘A powerful combination of columns from The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, with a piercing new analysis by one of the country’s most admired political commentators.’⁠
Laurie Oakes⁠
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Following on from her highly acclaimed works So Greek, The Road to Ruin, Plots and Prayers, and Bulldozed, Savva releases Earthquake, a detailed, considered analysis of what went on behind the scenes, accompanied by her trademark access to important players and eyewitnesses, of an election that transformed Australian politics.⁠
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Out everywhere now, online and in-store 📚️ ✨️

18/11/2025

🪂 HAPPY ANZ PUBLICATION DAY 🪂⁠
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Crash of the Heavens by Douglas Century ()⁠
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This is the awe-inspiring story of Hannah Senesh, a female paratrooper in World War II whose courage and sacrifice left an indelible mark on history. ⁠
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Five years after fleeing Europe, Hannah, a poet and a paratrooper, parachuted back into occupied territory as a freedom fighter with the most crucial role in her team: the wireless operator tasked with sending and deciphering top secret British radio codes. Though captured after crossing the border into Hungary, she refused to give up her radio codes or any information about her mission, despite enduring months of torture. Her final act of defiance cemented her legendary status as the ‘Jewish Joan of Arc’, and her posthumously published poems, translated into more than twenty languages, continue to inspire new generations of readers.⁠
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More than just a gripping historical account of Hannah’s life and afterlife, Crash of the Heavens offers a powerful reminder of the human spirit’s ability to shine, even in the darkest of times.⁠
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Crash of the Heavens is available now online and in-store ✨️

04/11/2025

NOVEMBER PUBLICATION DAY ❗️⁠
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Today marks the publication of two phenomenal new books, the inspiring story of six, heroic female aviators, and the annual collection of the very best in Australian political cartoons. ⁠
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✈️ In ATLANTIC FURIES, Midge Gillies () uncovers the stories of Elsie Mackay, Lady Anne Savile, Frances Grayson, Ruth Elder, Amelia Earhart, and Mabel Boll. These courageous, rule-breaking women risked everything to prove that women could fly the Atlantic. Some had lied to their families in order not to be stopped, others duped the press about their intentions and, ultimately, three lost their lives, but each pushed the boundaries of the possible.⁠
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🎨 ⁠BEST AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL CARTOONS 2025, edited by Russ Radcliffe () is the year in politics as observed by Australia's funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists. In this profoundly disordered world, we have never needed the satirical insights of our great political cartoonists more. This year’s collection features Dean Alston, Badiucao, Matt Bissett-Johnson, Peter Broelman, Warren Brown, Harry Bruce, Mark David, First Dog on the Moon, Matt Golding, Megan Herbert, Fiona Katauskas, Mark Knight, Jon Kudelka, Glen Le Lievre, Sean Leahy, Johannes Leak, Brett Lethbridge, Alan Moir, Nordacious, David Pope, Geoff Pryor, David Rowe, Greg Smith, Phil Somerville, John Spooner, Andrew Weldon, and Cathy Wilcox.⁠
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⁠And coming later this month ...⁠
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⚡️CRASH OF THE HEAVENS by Douglas Century (): publishing 18 November ⁠
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🌏️ EARTHQUAKE by Niki Savva: Publishing 24 November ⁠
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✨️ Orders available now at scribepublications.com.au ✨️

31/10/2025

✨️🔮🐏🐇👻 HAPPY HALLOWEEN, from the Scribe team! ✨️🔮🐏🐇👻 ⁠
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To celebrate this year's spooky season, we're running a GHOULISH GIVEAWAY of all Bora Chung's phenomenal books!⁠
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A master of horror and speculative fiction, Bora Chung is a Korean author whose work has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, amongst other accolades. As of 2025, five of her works have been translated by Anton Hur and published in English. ⁠
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To win all three copies of: ⁠
The Midnight Timetable ⁠
Cursed Bunny ⁠
Your Utopia⁠
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1. Head on over to the Instagram account
2. Follow Scribe ⁠
3. Comment 🐏🐇, or tell us a scary story (if you dare...) ⁠
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Enter by 7 November for your chance to win! ⁠
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‘I love the creatures who populate the Haunted Institute of Bora Chung’s mind — handkerchiefs with vendettas, jackets that weep in marbles, wounded, oracular sheep. Midnight Timetable is enigmatic, wild, and fun, even while making deep and provocative points about the dark joys suffering makes available. A fascinating novel of shifting realities centered by a steady, humane heart. Bora Chung is a master of concocting dreamscapes that linger.’⁠ Marie-Helene Bertino, author of Beautyland

30/10/2025

‘In Ernest Rutherford and the Birth of Modern Physics, biographer Matthew Wright illuminates the astonishing career of perhaps the greatest hands-on scientist to live and work through the iconoclastic revolution that gave rise to the nuclear age, from the 1890s through to the late 1930s.⁠
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Rutherford was born in 1871 in the tiny town of Spring Grove in the South Island, and won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1908. Edmund Hillary would later climb impossible mountains, and Richie McCaw take the All Blacks to even greater heights, but Rutherford, with a Nobel, a knighthood, and then as Lord Nelson, was the most famous and respected Kiwi of his day.⁠
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Wright (a Kiwi himself) manages the deft balancing act of telling the life story of a pioneering physicist while explaining the science in a comprehensible way.’⁠
Pat Sheil, The Age ⁠
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Ernest Rutherford and the Birth of Modern Physics by Matthew Wright is out now! 🪐⚡️✨️

27/10/2025

💜 COVER REVEAL 🖤⁠
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‘In a small, steaming gully carved into the western slope of a mountain, a single orchid clutches to a vine. It is the last of its kind.’ ⁠
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A feminist utopia crumbles with one impossible birth... Vividly expressed, wildly funny, and wholly original, The Endling examines the volatile intersection of community and politics, exploring what happens when the borders we construct between species, between sexes, between self and world prove more porous than we imagine.⁠
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THE ENDLING by Keely Jobe ⁠
Cover of our wildest dreams designed by Allison Colpoys ⁠
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Coming 31 March 2026, pre-order available now 💫

22/10/2025

🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋⁠
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‘In The Butterfly Thief, Walter Marsh follows the trail of Colin Wyatt, a mysterious 20th-century collector who becomes a lightning rod for the tangled legacies of empire, science, and obsession. With wit and wonder, Marsh turns one man’s improbable life story into a fascinating reflection on how history is gathered, shaped, and stolen.’⁠
Marc Fennell, Stuff the British Stole⁠
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‘This fascinating tale of conquest, colonialism, and collecting kept me riveted from the first page to the last. Walter Marsh is a compelling and gifted storyteller, but it is his ability to reveal the intricate connections between a singularly weird and wonderful butterfly heist and the wider crimes of the West that makes The Butterfly Thief truly extraordinary.’⁠
Hannah Kent, author of Always Home, Always Homesick⁠
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‘The Butterfly Thief tells a story stranger than fiction … As Marsh describes in this fascinating, impressively researched and at times dismaying book … all the trouble caused by Colin Wyatt’s meddling with Australian butterflies.’⁠
Simon Caterson, The Australian⁠
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‘The Butterfly Thief is, at face value, the story of a series of museum heists and the cast of collectors that intersected with it. But for me, it’s also a meditation on the legacies we inherit from the past, and how we reconcile the good and the bad.‘⁠
Walter Marsh, interview for The University of Adelaide ⁠
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THE BUTTERFLY THIEF by is out now 🦋🧐✨️

21/10/2025

🔮 🐏 ✨️🔮 🐏 ✨️🔮 🐏 ✨️🔮 🐏 ✨️⁠
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‘I grew up with stories about magical objects from the medieval Korean annals such as ‘The History of The Three Kingdoms’ and ‘The Legends of The Three Kingdoms’. There are whole stories about a magical flute that could ‘calm ten thousand waves’, or a self-playing magical drum that warns the country of the approaching enemies. And there’s awe, excitement, people’s hopes and expectations attached to these objects. ⁠
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I took ordinary objects used by ordinary people and made them haunted instead of magical. We all have objects with sentimental value, so I just added a little haunting to them.’⁠
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Bora Chung () speaking about new book THE MIDNIGHT TIMETABLE, in response to Freya Bennett's () question: ⁠
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‘The cursed objects in your book often reveal human flaws, fears, or regrets. How do you see the interplay between supernatural elements and psychological realism in your work?’⁠
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Check out the full, brilliant interview over at ramonamag.com 🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄🪄

16/10/2025

The icon, Chris Kraus 🖊️⁠
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‘Chris Kraus reinvents the true crime novel: Her début, “I Love Dick,” was an epistolary memoir of erotic obsession that redefined the form. In “The Four Spent the Day Together,” she turns another genre on its head.’⁠
Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker ⁠
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‘Her first novel in more than a decade, The Four Spent the Day Together, reflects on and ironises contemporary America’s cultural rot. Beginning in Milford, Connecticut, during the 1960s, it chronicles decay across three linked chapters, reflecting on the (first) Trump election, online cancellation, the hollowing-out of the working and middle class, and a frightening murder case.’⁠
Declan Fry, The Age ⁠
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‘The Four Spent the Day Together, Kraus’s ninth book, is another exercise in radical disclosure, this time exploring how, as Kraus’s public profile soared in her 60s, her private life fell apart once more when her second husband relapsed into drug and alcohol addiction. She chose to write about being married to an addict because the experience is “underrepresented”, she says, perhaps because there is so much shame attached to it ... But Kraus, who writes unflinchingly about shame and abjection, finds writing a way to metabolise those feelings.’ ⁠
Sophie McBain, The Guardian⁠
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THE FOUR SPENT THE DAY TOGETHER is out now 📖

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