Scribe Publications: 214 books
by Craig Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
From the bush of Baradine to the corridors of Canberra, this is Craig Emerson’s story of triumph over adversity.
In the mid-1960s, in the small town of Baradine in north-western New South Wales, the Emerson family was in continual crisis. The mother suffered from deep depression, and the...
How I Rescued My Brain
a psychologist’s remarkable recovery from stroke and trauma
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
As a psychologist specialising in court assessments, David Roland often saw the toughest, most heartbreaking cases. The emotional trauma had begun to take its toll — and then the global financial crisis hit, leaving his family facing financial ruin.
So when he found himself in a local emergency...
Good Health in the 21st Century
a family doctor's unconventional guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2006
Western nations are worried about the problems of an ageing population. But if we take into account the health trends in younger generations, we arrive at a frightening prediction: for the first time in history, we have produced a generation that may not outlive its parents.
Like a growing...
Making Babies
personal IVF stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
Around 15 per cent of couples in various Western countries suffer from infertility. Every year thousands try IVF and other assisted-reproduction techniques, but only about a third go home with a baby in their arms. IVF now accounts for 3 per cent of all births in Australia, and the numbers are similar...
The Force
living safely in a world of electromagnetic pollution
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
Technology infiltrates our lives so rapidly that few of us stop to consider the potential health implications. Yet could the technology designed to improve our lives actually be making us sick?
Scientists have long believed that there is a link between health problems and radiation from mobile...
Who Gave You Permission?
the memoir of a child sexual-abuse survivor who fought back
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
‘Who gave you permission to speak to anybody?’ Rabbi Telsner, the leader of the Yeshivah Centre, thundered during his regular weekly sermon. It was a question directed to Manny Waks’s father, after Manny had finally gone public with his accusations of sexual abuse and its cover-up within the...
The Family
The shocking true story of a notorious cult
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
The apocalyptic group The Family and their guru, Anne Hamilton-Byrne — one of very few female cult leaders in history — captured international headlines throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
Hamilton-Byrne, who some followers believed was Jesus Christ, was glamorous and charismatic — and, many...
by Fran Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
In Brazil, you can commune with spirits and dance with gods. In Brazil, you can learn a lot about life’s possibilities.
Seven years of travel in Brazil saw Fran Bryson’s fascination with the country develop into something of an obsession with its culture, religions, and history. During...
Growing Older Without Feeling Old
on vitality and ageing
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
The past century has witnessed a revolution.
Less than a hundred years ago, the average Western life expectancy was 40; now it is 80. And there is no end in sight: the first person who will reach 135 has already been born. It’s the most radical change in our society since industrialisation,...
Viennese Romance
a novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Available in English for the first time, here is David Vogel’s previously unknown novel that had literary Israel abuzz when it was published in 2012, almost one hundred years after the author started working on it.
David Vogel has long been regarded as a leading figure in modern Hebrew literature,...
Tony Abbott
a man’s man
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
‘If he’s elected as our PM in the future I would be very scared for women everywhere.’ — Mia Freedman
When Julia Gillard — a woman who was unmarried and childless, and an atheist — became prime minister in 2010, Tony Abbott was left boiling with rage. Not only had he lost, but he...
by Michael Bachelard
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Out of nowhere in 2004, an obscure religious sect burst onto the political stage in Australia. Almost unheard of until then, the Exclusive Brethren was suddenly spending up big in election advertising in support of conservative political parties. But its members were shy to the point of paranoia about...
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by Andrew Hankinson
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction and a Northern Writers Award
These are the last days of Raoul Moat.
Raoul Moat was the fugitive Geordie bodybuilder-mechanic who became notorious one hot July week when, after killing his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend, shooting her in the...
Farewell, Dear People
biographies of Australia’s lost generation
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
WINNER OF THE 2013 PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
WINNER OF THE 2012 MANNING CLARK HOUSE NATIONAL CULTURAL AWARD
COMMENDED FOR THE FAW EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION AWARD
For Australia, a new nation with a relatively small population, the death of 60,000 soldiers...