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Scribe is an independent Australian book-publishing company, founded by Henry Rosenbloom in 1976.

01/09/2026

⚡️ SEPTEMBER PUBLICATION DAY ⚡️⁠
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💕 Head to our Instagram account to participate in our giveaway 💕⁠
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Dear readers, it's the first day of spring in the southern hemisphere, and to mark the shift in season Scribe is publishing four enlightening new books. Acclaimed author Laura Elizabeth Woollett brings us ‘Hell Days’, a forensic deep dive into the little-known condition of PMDD. Journalists Cagan Koc and Diederik Baazil bring us ‘The Machine and the Microchip’, an investigation into the war over the world’s most important technology. Historian and broadcaster James Crawford releases ‘The Vanishing Earth’ — ⁠a journey into the scarred landscapes of global extraction.
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And on the 15th of September, debut novelist Hector MacKenzie will release ‘the long cloud’ — a tender and witty meditation on masculinity, beauty, and mortality. ⁠
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⁠🩸 Hell Days by Laura Elizabeth Woollett ⁠
‘An immaculately researched and thought-provoking book about a disorder that history has failed to understand ...’⁠
Gina Rushton, author of ‘The Most Important Job in the World’⁠
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☁️ the long cloud by Hector MacKenzie ⁠
(out 15 September) ⁠
‘A timely, timeless book about leaving and returning, failure and success, ambivalence and disappearance, things and people left behind.’⁠
Chris Kraus, author of ‘I Love Dick’⁠

🤖 The Machine and the Microchip by Cagan Koc and Diederik Baazil ⁠
‘A gripping geopolitical thriller that moves from secret White House meetings to cleanrooms across the world. Sharp, revealing, fast-paced, and packed with insider scoops.’⁠
Laurens Lange, chief editor of RTL News⁠
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🌎️ The Vanishing Earth by James Crawford ⁠
‘Crawford belongs with other storyteller-explorers — strolling player-writers like Iain Sinclair, Rebecca Solnit, and Robert Macfarlane — who are stretching naturalist observation into incisive cultural inquiry ... Riveting.’⁠
The New York Review of Books ⁠
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All books now available in-store and online! Visit scribepublications.com.au 💫

31/08/2026

Testimonials by Scribe's authors: Part two ⁠
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Thank you to: ⁠
Kylie Mirmohamadi ⁠
Dr. Ahona Guha ⁠
Madeleine Ryan ⁠
Cate Kennedy ⁠
Ross McMullin ⁠
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The Scribe team is honoured to publish books by an incredible community of writers, from many different fields and walks of life. To celebrate the company’s 50th-anniversary milestone, we asked some of them to share their reflections on being published by us. ⁠
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Head over to the Scribe website to read all the testimonials in full, links in our bio ✨️❤️

26/08/2026

The Scribe team is honoured to publish books by an incredible community of writers, from many different fields and walks of life. To celebrate the company’s 50th-anniversary milestone, we asked some of them to share their reflections on being published by us. Enjoy reading a few of those reflections here. (More to come!) ⁠
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Head over to the Scribe website to read all the testimonials in full ✨️❤️

18/08/2026

♥️ Celebrating fifty years of Scribe ♥️⁠
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As of 2026, Scribe Publications is 50 years old. For half a century, Scribe has operated as an independent publishing house, and a bastion of great literature in Australia’s evolving cultural landscape. From its very beginnings the Scribe team has fostered strong relationships with its authors and wider community, cultivated a passionate, editorial-led approach to publishing, and championed original ideas, powerful writing, and bold points of view.⁠
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Having established Scribe UK in 2013, and an office in the US in 2017, Scribe’s outlook is global. We bring Australian books to readers all over the world, and in turn enrich Australian readers with the very best international offerings by authors of many different nationalities. We have a celebrated history of developing new authors, and books we’ve published have received or been finalists for every major literary prize in Australia, alongside numerous international prizes. ⁠
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Scribble , the children’s imprint of Scribe, is ten years old this year, having been established by Miriam Rosenbloom in 2016. In its short history it has launched many authors and illustrators’ careers and won numerous awards, including ‘Publisher of the Year’ in the Oceania region at the Bologna Book Fair in 2019, and published internationally bestselling titles, including Davina Bell & Allison Colpoys’ ‘All the Ways to be Smart.⁠’⁠
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Scribe is immensely proud to have spent the last five decades bringing readers across Australia and the world the finest works of fiction and nonfiction, from local and international authors.⁠
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🌟 Stay tuned this week for the announcement of our 50th anniversary reading lists, and a very special 🌟

04/08/2026

🐢🌱 AUGUST PUBLICATION DAY 🐇🫖⁠
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Dear readers, this August, we bring you four exceptional books. Acclaimed environmental journalist (and resident creature expert) Michael Dulaney releases Sentinels, a searing investigation into animal-to-human contagion, in the age of climate change. A young woman grapples with the pull of otherworldly, animal drives, in Emeline Atwood's raw, transformative novel A Real Animal.⁠
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Leading Finnish novelist Riikka Pulkkinen weaves an intoxicating literary mystery, in the translated novel Enchantment. Scribe releases a new edition of trailblazing scholar Camille Paglia's book Sexual Personae, the 1990 work that explores the primacy of s*x and violence within the western cultural canon. ⁠
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🌎️ SENTINELS by Michael Dulaney ⁠
Humans have long observed animals for advanced warnings of danger. What can they tell us about the growing threat of contagion in the age of climate change?⁠
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🐆 A REAL ANIMAL by Emeline Atwood⁠
An epic, transformative novel following a young woman as she navigates a series of romantic relationships, reckons with the false promise of family intimacy, and seeks connection with the sublime and natural worlds.⁠
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🔮 ENCHANTMENT by Riikka Pulkkinen .pulkkinen, translated by Tabatha Leggett ⁠
Philippa Laakso was many things to many people. Caring and selfish. Kind to some, cruel to others. And now, she was dead.⁠
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🎭️ SEXUAL PERSONAE by Camille Paglia⁠
Audacious, vastly erudite, and wildly entertaining, Sexual Personae is art history that invites us to see the entire world anew.⁠

All available now in-store and online at scribepublications.com.au
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✨️💝 AUGUST GIVEAWAY 💝✨️⁠
If you’d like to go in the running to win one of our August books in Australia or New Zealand: ⁠
» Leave a comment telling us which book you'd like to read and why⁠
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03/08/2026

🚨🩺 COVER REVEAL 🩺🚨⁠
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The new book from Jake Adelstein, internationally acclaimed journalist and true crime writer, is ... ⁠
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CODE BLUE ⁠
The serial killer, the cover-up, and a two-generation quest for justice⁠
by Jake Adelstein , and co-author Amy Yoshida-Plambeck ⁠
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In the summer of 1992, patients at a veterans’ hospital in mid-Missouri began dying under suspicious circumstances — but the institution meant to protect them was busy protecting itself. Three decades on, Jake Adelstein returns to his hometown Columbia, Missouri, to take up the case his father never stopped investigating.⁠
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This is the story of serial killings in a college town, the cover-up, and the devastating ripple effects of a crime that went unpunished. At the centre of it all: the hospital pathologist who started the investigation and asked his son to finish it.⁠
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For the first time in thirty years, Jake Adelstein has returned home. Together with his daughter, Beni, and co-writer, Amy Yoshida-Plambeck, they turn up the heat on a very cold case in a quest for real justice.⁠
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JAKE ADELSTEIN has been an investigative journalist in Japan since 1993, writing in Japanese and English. He authored Tokyo Vice (now an HBO series), The Last Yakuza (2023), Tokyo Noir (2024), and The Devil Takes Bitcoin (2025). He co-hosted the award-winning podcast The Evaporated: Gone with the Gods. A recognised expert on Japan’s organised crime, he’s reported for The Daily Beast, Los Angeles Times, Tempura, and VICE.⁠
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AMY YOSHIDA-PLAMBECK is an editor and writer based in Tokyo, Japan. She has also produced and written for two award-winning podcasts with Campside Media and Sony Music Entertainment, Witnessed: Night Shift and The Evaporated: Gone With The Gods. ⁠
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PUBLISHING: ⁠
AU and NZ: 2 February 2027 ⁠
US: 9 February 2027 ⁠
UK: 11 February 2027⁠
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Pre-order available now at Scribe 📚️✨️

13/07/2026

🤍 THE SONG OF STORK AND DROMEDARY 🤍⁠
by Anjet Daanje, translated by David McKay⁠ ()⁠
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What reviewers are saying about 'the Dutch novel of the century'. ⁠
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From the International Booker Prize-longlisted author and translator of The Remembered Soldier, comes The Song of Stork and Dromedary, a transcendent, spectacular masterpiece inspired by the life and literature of Emily Brontë, the author of Wuthering Heights, and the historic literary figures, the Brontë sisters. ⁠
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In the early 1800s, in Yorkshire, Eliza May Drayden and her sisters live far from the public eye, devoted to their shared love of reading and writing books. When, after dozens of rejections, Eliza May’s only novel, Haeger Mass, is finally published, it’s labelled as ‘ghastly’ and ‘immoral’. Over time, however, it is embraced by generations of readers as a masterpiece, and tales about its mysterious, reclusive author take on a life of their own.⁠
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In The Song of Stork and Dromedary, Anjet Daanje has crafted an absorbing literary mystery and an unforgettable meditation on love, life, loss, and the inexplicable nature of time. As the Brontës themselves did, Daanje shows us that storytelling is our only way to transcend death.⁠
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Cover design by Tom Etherington ()⁠
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THE SONG OF STORK AND DROMEDARY IS COMING: ⁠
♥️ AU and NZ: 29 September 2026 ⁠
♥️ UK: 8 October 2026 ⁠
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Pre-orders are now available on the Scribe website! 🤍🤍🤍

06/07/2026

💛 THE Q***R BOOKSHELF 💛 by Layla McCay ⁠
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recommends these q***r classics from Australian and New Zealander authors, as it guides readers through the q***r canon ✨️⁠
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‘The Q***r Bookshelf offers a vivid window into the past, present, and future of q***r lives, weaving together the threads that connect q***r readers and writers across generations — and showing how our stories shape the way we understand the world. Compelling and fascinating, it’s an essential read for anyone interested in q***r culture.’⁠
Matt Cain, MBE⁠
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‘No q***r bookshelf is complete without this book. A thoughtful and empowering guide for the discerning q***r reader.’⁠
A. J. West, author of How Q***r Bookshops Changed the World⁠
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The Q***r Bookshelf is available now in-store and online 🧡

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