Scribe Publications: 214 books
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...
One Last Spin
the power and peril of the pokies
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
A poignant and compassionate work of literary journalism that tackles Australia’s most controversial pastime.
Almost 200,000 poker machines sing and flash in pubs, clubs, and casinos in every corner of the country. They’re highly complex devices, their components designed by mathematicians,...
Happy Never After
why the happiness fairytale is driving us mad (and how I flipped the script)
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Jill Stark was living the dream. She had a coveted job as a senior journalist, she was dating a sports star, and her first book had just become a bestseller. After years of chasing the fairytale ending, she’d finally found it. And then it all fell apart.
Getting her happy-ever-after plunged...
Looking for the Light on the Hill
modern Labor's challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Today, the Australian Labor Party is in crisis. Reduced to minority government after just one term, and at rock bottom in the opinion polls, the party seems to be at a defining moment in its history. The perception of the federal government is that it can’t deliver, can’t be trusted, can’t communicate...
Dissent
the student press in 1960s Australia
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
A passionate portrayal of Australia’s social awakening — the people, the politics, and the power of the student press.
The 1960s was a decade of profound change, marked by an accumulating tension between political conservatism and social restlessness. During this time, university campuses...
Into the Darkness
the mysterious death of Phoebe Handsjuk
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
On 2 December 2010, the body of a 24-year-old woman was found at the bottom of the rubbish chute in the luxury Balencea tower apartments in St Kilda Road, Melbourne, twelve floors below the apartment she had shared with her boyfriend, Antony Hampel.
Within minutes, the sound of sirens filled...
The Show
another side of Santamaria’s Movement
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
In 1942, on the recommendation of 26-year-old Bob Santamaria, Australia’s Catholic bishops created a clandestine church organisation to smash the Communist Party’s massive trade union base. Soon, The Movement, working closely with ASIO, became a sophisticated intelligence agency that would influence...
Mateship
a very Australian history
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
A ‘mate’ is a mate, right? Wrong, argues Nick Dyrenfurth in this provocative new look at one of Australia’s most talked-about beliefs.
In the first book-length exploration of our secular creed, one of Australia’s leading young historians and public commentators turns mateship’s history...
Pitched Battle
in the frontline of the 1971 Springbok tour of Australia
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
A vivid story of the men and women who took a stand when sport mixed with politics
In 1971, when the racially selected all-white Springbok rugby team toured Australia, we became a nation at war with ourselves. There was bloodshed as tens of thousands of anti-Apartheid campaigners clashed with...
Travels in Atomic Sunshine
Australia and the occupation of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
A vivid, salutary study of Australia’s little-known participation in the post-war occupation of Japan.
In February 1946, the Australians of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) moved into western Japan to ‘demilitarise and democratise’ the atom-bombed backwater of Hiroshima...
De Luxe
a Jack Susko mystery
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
For once, Jack Susko is feeling pretty good: his secondhand bookshop is on the up, and the cops haven’t been around in ages. Even his cat, Lois, is being nice to him.
Then one morning a beautiful woman knocks on Jack’s door and hands him an eviction notice. His former boss, a corrupt property...
by Ken Crispin
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
What is justice? How does our legal system work? How can we trust a system that is so changeable and widely criticised? And are our laws really effective? These are some of the fundamental questions that former Supreme Court judge Ken Crispin sets out to answer in this enlightening and thought-provoking...
by David Vogel
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
David Vogel has long been regarded as a leading figure of Hebrew literature, and his work has been compared to that of Joseph Roth, Thomas Mann, and Franz Kafka.
In the Sanatorium was Vogel’s first published work of fiction, translated here into English for the first time. It is set in a...
I Am Here
stories from a cancer ward
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
What comfort can an agnostic give people who are suffering or dying?
Looking for more meaning in his work, Johannes Klabbers gave up a tenured academic position to spend his days caring for the sick and dying. He trained as a secular pastoral carer in a cancer hospital, and from the patients...