Scribe Publications: 214 books
by Anna Westbrook
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Inspired by the true events of an unsolved murder
Sydney, 1946. Eleven-year-old Frances and her best friend, Nancy, are growing up in the doglegged streets of Newtown and into a world they do not understand. It is the aftermath of World War II, and thousands of damaged soldiers have returned...
by Robert Gott
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
On Christmas Eve, 1943, the newly formed but undermanned Homicide division of the Melbourne police force is called to investigate the vicious double murder of a father and son. When Military Intelligence becomes involved, Homicide’s Inspector Titus Lambert must unravel the personal from the political.
If...
The Near and the Far
new stories from the Asia-Pacific region
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
From 21 of the best writers in the Asia-Pacific region comes a collection about finding connections where you least expect them.
It’s a sweltering night in Kuala Lumpur, and a journalist is protesting in a city on the edge of meltdown. It’s post-9/11 San Francisco, and a woman meets her...
by Peter Cotton
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
A federal election campaign is thrown into chaos when a popular government minister goes missing and then turns up dead on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin.
With Detective Darren Glass and the Australian Federal Police on the case, the investigation into the minister’s murder quickly becomes...
by Hans Fallada
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Available for the first time in English, here is an unforgettable portrayal by a master novelist of the physical and psychological devastation wrought in the homeland by Hitler’s war.
Late April, 1945. The war is over, yet Dr Doll, a loner and ‘moderate pessimist’, lives in constant fear....
The Secret Code-Breakers of Central Bureau
how Australia’s signals-intelligence network helped win the Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
A groundbreaking work of Australian military history, The Code-Breakers of Central Bureau tells the story of the country’s significant code-breaking and signals-intelligence achievements during the Second World War. It reveals how Australians built a large and sophisticated intelligence network...
Why Aren't We Dead Yet?
the survivor’s guide to the immune system
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 BRAGG UNSW PRESS PRIZE FOR SCIENCE WRITING
Disease — specifically infectious disease — is what eventually kills the overwhelming majority of us. In fact, it’s amazing that it doesn’t get us sooner: we fight off millions of disease-causing germs every day.
So...
Headache
a family doctor’s guide to treating a common ailment
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
From the author of the bestselling, Good Health in the 21st Century
Currently, about one in six of us suffer from chronic headache. In Australia, it is estimated that around three million adults get migraines; based on that figure, on any one day almost 100,000 will have one, with about half...
A Life Less Stressed
the five pillars of health and wellness
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
A holistic guide to the stresses that wear us down and the simple changes we can make to lead happier, healthier, and more resilient lives.
Life has never been more stressful. It is no coincidence that chronic degenerative disorders such as cancer, heart disease, autoimmune illnesses, and mental-health...
Your Brain Knows More Than You Think
the new frontiers of neuroplasticity
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Our brains are more powerful than we ever realised.
Too often, we humans tend to assume that nature is fixed, immutable — and this tendency is particularly strong when we think about matters of the mind and behaviour. People just can’t change, we say, so they must somehow be prevented from...
A Perfidious Distortion of History
the Versailles Peace Treaty and the success of the Nazis
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
A controversial and important work of revisionist history that rebuts the accepted version of the role of the Versailles Peace Treaty in the rise of Nazism and the unleashing of World War II.
The Versailles Peace Treaty, the pact that ended World War I between the German empire and the Allies,...
The Chamberlain Case
the legal saga that transfixed the nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
A baby disappears from a tent near Uluru in the sandy desert of central Australia. The Aboriginal trackers say she has been taken by a dingo. But amidst a melange of sinister rumours, suspicion falls on the parents, Lindy and Michael Chamberlain. There are no eyewitnesses, no body, no confession,...
We Are Here
talking with Australia's oldest Holocaust survivors
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
These are the last adult witnesses — in their own words.
When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he quickly began to realise his dream of a racially superior nation free of ‘inferior’ groups. His goal included the eradication of European Jewry, a plan that would ultimately...
Don't Panic
you can overcome anxiety without drugs
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Panic attacks, phobias, extreme shyness, and general anxiety disrupt the lives of an estimated 15 per cent of the population. Typically, these kinds of problems are diagnosed, often without evidence, as being caused by a biochemical imbalance that requires rebalancing through medication. The result,...