Blog
Blog
In this section, you'll find all the latest (and the oldest) news relating to our books and authors, and to our Melbourne and London offices.
Awards, acquisitions, author tours, reprints, a bit of gossip, and the occasional job listing — it's all here.
So if it's your secret dream to work at Scribe, or you just like knowing what's happening in the world of publishing, then read on.
And then get back to reading a good book.

News
Just Mercy named a finalist in the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
11 September 2015Congratulations to Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy.
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Happiness and Its Causes — David Roland
10 September 2015How I Rescued My Brain with David Roland at Happiness & Its Causes 2015.
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Scribe announces new design-led children’s imprint, Scribble
8 September 2015After nearly forty years of independent publishing in Australia and two…
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Higher Ed blog tour
17 August 2015The blog tour for Higher Ed by Tessa McWatt will be kicking off in one…
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Insights
Reclaiming lost art treasures stolen by the Nazis
14 August 2015Searle was an extremely rich man who bought a painting without…
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Mrs Engels is longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award
14 August 2015Congratulations to Scribe author Gavin McCrea, whose debut novel Mrs…
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Slavery to mass incarceration
16 July 2015Bryan Stevenson on slavery and social justice.
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Joel Bourne’s shopping cart
1 July 2015At almost every talk I give on the global food crisis, someone usually…
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‘The UK science curriculum is not designed to spark curiosity’ Greg Brown on teaching science
1 July 2015Today Greg Brown is half of AsapSCIENCE, the YouTube phenomenon with…
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Eben Venter on Books and Arts
30 June 2015Eben Venter speaks to Matthew Crawford for ABC RN’s Books and Arts.
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Q&A with Tatiana Salem Levy
29 June 2015Tatiana Salem Levy on the fascinating background to her novel, The…
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Just Mercy wins the Carnegie Medal for Excellence
29 June 2015Bryan Stevenson's masterful Just Mercy — which has been described as…
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Vote for your favourite book on PEN’s World Bookshelf
26 June 2015English PEN is celebrating ten of years of its Writers in Translation…
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Just Mercy is longlisted for The Warwick Prize for Writing
19 June 2015Congratulations to Just Mercy author Bryan Stevenson.
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