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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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Photos by ⁠
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THE FOUR SPENT THE DAY TOGETHER is out now 📖

16/10/2025

🌹 SCRIBE SALON 🌹⁠
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Dear readers,⁠
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We'd love you to join us on Thursday 13 November for an evening with some of Scribe's most exciting local talent, all launching brilliant new books in 2026.⁠
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Meet Laura Elizabeth Woollett, Laura McPhee-Browne, Keely Jobe, and Hector Mackenzie, as they share their new works with us. The evening will be hosted by Jaclyn Crupi at the Hill of Content bookshop.⁠
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Light refreshments will be served, and we'd be delighted to see you there.⁠
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Supported by the City of Melbourne ⁠
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Bookings free but essential, through the link in our bio ✨️

14/10/2025

The icon herself, 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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Photos by ⁠
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THE FOUR SPENT THE DAY TOGETHER is out now 📖

13/10/2025

ACQUISITION ANNOUNCEMENT ⁠❗️⁠
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Scribe has acquired world rights to Hell Days by Laura Elizabeth Woollett () — her nonfiction debut, and fifth book with Scribe Publications. Woollett's new offering will be published in September 2026. ⁠
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Blending memoir, true crime, medical research, interviews, and cultural analysis, Hell Days investigates premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), a hormonal mood disorder with which the author was diagnosed in 2019. Refracting outward from Woollett's experiences as starving artist, coma patient, parent — to those of other PMDD sufferers, along with dedicated researchers and clinicians, Hell Days is a testament to the precarity and dignity of life as a periodically suicidal person of reproductive age at this moment in history.⁠
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‘Hell Days has evolved so much from my original vague notion of writing about my PMDD (not least because I had a child midway through the writing process). This book was shaped by the disruption of pregnancy and early motherhood, by the escalating brutality of life in the 2020s, and by the pain, wisdom, and generosity of my interview subjects. While still a book about PMDD, Hell Days is also an unravelling of gender, the women's health industry, and the ersatz empowerments of our post-Covid, post- hellscape.’⁠
— Laura Elizabeth Woollett ⁠
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‘Known for her acclaimed fiction, Laura Elizabeth Woollett now turns her unflinching gaze inward and outward in a genre-bending account of what it means to navigate mental health, motherhood, and survival in contemporary life. Hell Days is essential reading — urgent, compassionate, and utterly necessary — and I'm thrilled to be publishing Laura's nonfiction debut.’⁠
— Marika Webb-Pullman, Publisher

30/09/2025

💜 OCTOBER PUBLICATION DAY 💜

Four books, four visionary stories. We're deeply proud to be sharing the work of these phenomenal authors with the world today.

🩵 THE FOUR SPENT THE DAY TOGETHER by Chris Kraus ()
An unforgettable new novel from the author of the modern classic I Love Dick. On the Iron Range of northern Minnesota, three teenagers shot and killed an older acquaintance after spending the day with him. Catt Greene turns away from her own life and towards the murder case, which becomes an all-consuming obsession.

🩷 THE MIDNIGHT TIMETABLE by Bora Chung () translated by Anton Hur ()
A masterful new work of literary horror from the Korean horror and sci-fi writer, and translator, who were shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. In a labyrinthine research facility, those who open the wrong door might find it’s disappeared behind them, or that the echoing footsteps they’re running from are their own.

💙 THE BUTTERFLY THIEF by Walter Marsh ()
The author of the acclaimed Young Rupert brings us the thrilling story of the most audacious serial heist in the history of Australia’s museums. In January 1947, over 3,000 rare and precious specimens of butterflies vanished from Australia’s most prestigious museums. The culprit was Colin Wyatt, a British gentleman adventurer who became the centre of this scientific true crime caper stretching around the globe.

🧡 ERNEST RUTHERFORD AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN PHYSICS by Matthew Wright
From the author of over 60 books, comes this story of the New Zealander whom Einstein labelled ‘a second Newton', and who became known as the ‘father of the atom’ in recognition of his pioneering role in particle physics. This book explores why Rutherford’s contribution was integral not just to the scientific revolution of the twentieth century, but to the way we now understand the nature of the universe.

OCTOBER GIVEAWAY 🎁⁠
If you’d like to go in the running to win one of our October books in AU or NZ: ⁠
» Leave a comment telling us which book you'd like and explain why, tag a friend⁠!⁠
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Order copies via our website, link in the bio ✨️

25/09/2025

Dear followers, here's a little bit about us ... ♥️⁠
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Since we began in 1976, Scribe has been proudly independent. We're currently one of the last remaining independent publishing houses in Australia. Our editorial-led approach to publishing means we have a reputation for championing original ideas, brilliant writing, and bold points of view, and we’ve often taken on books that other publishers have shied away from: the difficult, the unconventional, the necessary. ⁠
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We have a 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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Scribe’s nonfiction program strives to publish books that are deeply researched, explore important ideas, and drive conversations about perpetually relevant topics such as climate change, politics and justice, health, science, and technology. Scribe’s fiction list is made up of powerful and original Australian voices, and its translated fiction program brings some of the most exciting international authors and books to our shores.⁠
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In 2013 we established Scribe UK (), and in In 2017 we began publishing directly into the US. We now bring our books to English-language readers all over the world.⁠
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‘I became a trade publisher because I wanted to publish books that mattered. Many years later, we still try to publish books that have a reason for being, beyond the need to generate money.⁠
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I’m drawn to non-fiction writers who have a good case to argue, or who offer fresh perspectives on old stories. With fiction, I love writers with verve and panache who have something to say. Whatever the genre, I’m drawn to books that treat readers as intelligent.⁠
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I’m driven by a conviction that we have to provide a means for authors to tell the truth about what they see and what they know, and that we have to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comforted”.’⁠
Henry Rosenbloom, Scribe’s founder and publisher-in-chief⁠
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The Scribe team will continue to bring you the books that matter.

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