Scribe Publications Pty Ltd: 213 books
Six Square Metres
reflections from a small garden
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Life lessons from the ground up.
Sometimes you reap what you sow. Sometimes you reap what other people sowed. Sometimes you haven't got a clue what you are sowing, and sometimes you just get lucky, or unlucky. All these things are true of life, as of gardening.
In this thoughtful and...
by A.H. Chisholm
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
With the original introduction by C.J. Dennis and a new foreword by Sean Dooley.
Ninety years on, A.H. Chisholm’s classic Mateship with Birds is still as fresh and inspirational as an early-morning walk in the bush, the air resounding with birdsong. His account of the secret lives of birds...
Climate Code Red
the case for emergency action
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
This meticulously documented call-to-action reveals extensive scientific evidence that the global warming crisis is far worse than officially indicated — and that we’re almost at the point of no return.
Serious climate-change impacts are already happening: large ice-sheets are disintegrating,...
Says Who?
the struggle for authority in a market-based society
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
‘We live in an extremely controlling society in which authority has disappeared … traditional authority is lapsing into brute force … and we ourselves must take the first steps towards creating a new social order.’
This was the trenchant diagnosis by Paul Verhaeghe at the end of his...
Rudd's Way
November 2007–June 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Based on an extensive series of detailed and off-the-record interviews, Nicholas Stuart — Kevin Rudd’s biographer and the author of an acclaimed study into the 2007 election — provides a critical examination of Labor in office and of the key events and crucial moments leading to Rudd’s downfall.
Rudd’s...
by Tania Chandler
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 NED KELLY AWARDS, BEST FIRST FICTION
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 SISTERS IN CRIME’S DAVITT AWARDS FOR BEST DEBUT CRIME BOOK
A riveting psychological thriller.
Kurt Cobain stands at the top of the stairs, wearing the brown sweater. ‘Please don’t leave...
So Greek
confessions of a conservative leftie
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
From one of the most senior correspondents in the Canberra Press Gallery comes a rare account of life as a political insider.
Born in a small village in Cyprus, Niki Savva spent her childhood in Melbourne’s working-class suburbs — frontiers where locals were suspicious of olive oil, and...
A Murder Without Motive
the killing of Rebecca Ryle
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 NED KELLY AWARDS, BEST TRUE CRIME CATEGORY
In 2004, the body of a young Perth woman was found on the grounds of a primary school. Her name was Rebecca Ryle. The killing would mystify investigators, lawyers, and psychologists – and profoundly rearrange the life of...
Teens
what we're really thinking (when we're not saying anything)
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
A Top Five bestseller in Germany.
Teenagers are people too! But what kind?
Slaves to consumerism, ruined by porn, and always willing to trade in Granny’s Christmas present for a bag of weed or a vodka and Red Bull? Until now, we’ve always seen the lives of adolescents through the...
The Re-Origin of Species
a second chance for extinct animals
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
What does a mammoth smell like? Do dinosaurs bob their heads as they walk, like today’s birds? Do aurochs low like cows? You may soon find out.
From the Siberian permafrost to balmy California, scientists across the globe are working to resurrect all kinds of extinct animals, from ones that...
Ego and Soul
the modern West in search of meaning
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
The Western tradition relies on a balance between fulfilling the ego and allowing the soul freedom to speak. But, with modernity, the old certainties that guided human life have faded. A crisis of meaning has followed.
In this substantially revised edition of Ego and Soul, John Carroll examines...
Gallipoli Diaries
the Anzacs’ own story, day by day
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Gallipoli, for the average Australian, is the most famous battle that our volunteer soldiers ever fought, because it was our first entry as a nation into the war, and our people were keen to prove themselves. It would be, however, a long time before the families back home, and the nation as a whole,...
Palestine Diaries
the light horsemen’s own story, battle by battle
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
The third instalment in Jonathan King’s acclaimed World War 1 centennial trilogy.
‘In the history of the world there never was a greater victory than that which was achieved in Palestine.’ — Prime Minister Billy Hughes addressing the Australian Parliament in 1919.
Culminating...
Politics with Purpose
occasional observations on public and private life
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
‘We cannot blame particular individuals for modern Labor’s malaise, because it is part of a systemic global phenomenon. We are all under the sway of politics without purpose. And politics without purpose is pointless.’
Nothing could better sum up Lindsay Tanner’s forthright attitude...