Scribe Publications: 214 books
The Western Front Diaries
the Anzacs’ own story, battle by battle
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
A special 100th-anniversary edition.
Long overshadowed by the national obsession with the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign, the breathtaking story of what really happened on the Western Front has finally been brought into the bright light of day.
The Anzacs’ Western Front campaign had...
by Tony Birch
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2006
COMMENDED FOR THE 2011 KATE CHALLIS RAKA AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2006 QUEENSLAND PREMIER’S LITERARY AWARDS — AUSTRALIAN SHORT STORY COLLECTION
Shadowboxing is a collection of ten linked stories in the life of a boy growing up in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy in the 1960s....
by Lyn Bagnall
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2006
An essential resource for all Australian and New Zealand gardeners who care about their family’s health and the environment
Organic gardening leaves your patch of earth in a better condition than when you found it by working with nature rather than against it. A practicable and better alternative...
Futurevision
scenarios for the world in 2040
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
The future is not what it used to be. In this volatile era, with the world changing rapidly, people are more curious than ever to know what lies ahead.
Will relentless consumerism end up destroying our planet? Or can science and technology allow us to innovate our way out of trouble? Perhaps...
Credit Code Red
how financial deregulation and world instability are exposing Australia to economic catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Australia has been the lucky country for a long time. First it rode off the sheep’s back. Then it became a quarry for emerging economies. It deregulated its financial sector, abandoned manufacturing, rode an apparently endless urban-land boom, and has gone more than 25 years without a recession....
Asbestos House
the secret history of James Hardie Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2006
Founded in 1888, James Hardie Industries is one of Australia’s oldest, richest and proudest corporations. And its fortunes were based on what proved to be one of the worst industrial poisons of the twentieth century: asbestos.
Asbestos House, the name of the grand headquarters that Hardie...
In the Land of Giants
hunting monsters in the Hindu Kush
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
‘The imagination has its sanctuaries, too.’
High up in the Hindu Kush, between the ancient pagan Kalash people and the new medievalists of the Taliban, a charismatic young Spaniard, Jordi Magraner, made his home, mastering the local languages and customs before meeting his death in the...
Modern Manglish
gobbledygook made plain
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
‘It’s dog eat dog in this rat race.’
‘We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it.’
‘I hope to come first or second, or at least to win it.’
The information superhighway brings more text to our door than ever before. It’s just that most of it gets mangled along...
Digital vs Human
how we'll live, love, and think in the future
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
From the author of the international bestseller Future Files comes the one book you need to read to prepare for the world of tomorrow.
On most measures that matter, we’ve never had it so good. Physically, life for humankind has improved immeasurably over the last fifty years. Yet there is...
Beloved Land
stories, struggles, and secrets from Timor-Leste
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
WINNER OF THE 2014 ACT BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
At the stroke of midnight on 20 May 2002, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste became the first new nation of the 21st century. From that moment, those who fought for independence have faced a challenge even bigger than shaking off Indonesian...
by Richard Broinowski
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
On a calm afternoon in March 2011, a force-nine earthquake jolted the Pacific Ocean seabed east of Japan. Forty minutes later, a tsunami 21 metres high crashed onto the coast of Fukushima, Miyagi, and Iwate prefectures. Towns collapsed, villages were destroyed, and 16,000 people were swept away. The...
by Peter Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
The Black Saturday bushfires killed 173 people — wreaking a greater human toll than any other fire in Australia’s history. Ten of those victims died in Steels Creek, a small community on Melbourne’s outskirts. It was a beautiful place, which its residents had long treasured and loved. By the...
by Denis Muller
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Journalism is being transformed by the digital revolution. Journalists working for media organisations are having to file and update stories across multiple platforms under increasing time pressures. Meanwhile, anyone with sufficient literacy skills and access to the internet can aspire to practise...
Journalism at the Crossroads
crisis and opportunity for the press
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
A lively, spirited, and stirring critique of what is wrong with the Australian press — and how we might go about fixing it.
As newspaper subscription-rates decline, and mastheads lament what appears to be a broken business model, the future of journalism is uncertain. Yet, in an age of spin...