From powerful memoirs to debut novels, the Scribe team is incredibly excited about the selection of brilliant fiction and nonfiction titles we will be sharing with the world in the new year.
In recent weeks we've revealed some beautiful new covers across our socials, and they've garnered some lovely responses. Check out our new cover reveal posts below:
🖼️EVERYTHING IS STUPID, THE WORLD IS ON FIRE, AND NOTHING MATTERS
i had been a male model since i moved to london and initially i was making lots of money and then suddenly i wasn’t making any.
Xander is ageing out. A former high school jock turned model, he’s spent a decade in London riding a carousel of validation and success. Now the ride is slowing down.
When his much-more-successful actor girlfriend, Tessa K, buys him a plane ticket home to New Zealand for the first time in ten years, Xander returns as a stranger. The family farm is for sale. His mother is overbearing. His high school ex wants to reconnect. And his life is unravelling.
Then he meets someone younger, someone vibrant and unburdened, who makes him fall back in love with the small town he fled. But is she the cure for his problems or just another symptom of how empty his life has become?
In the long cloud, newcomer Hector MacKenzie captures the anxious rhythm of life in the ’20s — a tender, often funny meditation on masculinity, beauty, and mortality that proves you might be able to go home, but you can never truly go back.
A young man is gripped by one fear: that he’ll lose his mind.
With depression, alcoholism, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia spread across his family tree, the odds are not in his favour. So, he does what any analytically minded man might do: he tries to calculate the statistical probability of his own madness. What follows is a restless, darkly comic journey — from New York to Paris to Vienna — as he tries to outrun a fate that seems written into his DNA, only to end up working as a psychologist inside the very institution he’s spent his life fearing.
There, surrounded by stories that echo his own family’s, he begins to see with a new, hard-earned clarity. In this bestselling German debut, a potent blend of memoir and fiction, Engler unravels a compassionate tale of reconciliation in which the protagonist is forced to confront a question he has avoided all his life: What is normal?
Award-winning Elisabeth Åsbrink writes the biography of Gloria Ray Karlmark, one of the Little Rock Nine.
Gloria Ray was 14 years old when she was stopped by armed white soldiers from entering Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. The year was 1957 and the governor of Arkansas refused to allow her and eight other Black teenagers to enter the all-white school. ‘That day my childhood ended’, Gloria says today.
Gloria Ray and the others in the Little Rock Nine were the first to act on the 1954 Supreme Court decision that ruled the segregation of Black and white children in American schools unconstitutional. Arkansas’ resistance to the decision was so strong and violent that President Dwight Eisenhower was forced to deploy elite armed troops to escort the nine Black children to school every day.
The incident became world news and a pawn in the Cold War, as well as a shocking exposure of racism in America. The Little Rock Nine are now icons in the history of the American civil rights movement.
But the price was high. They endured harassment, death threats, and violence, and their parents and siblings suffered greatly, as did those who supported their fight for justice. In the end, the governor of Arkansas closed all public schools instead of allowing African-American children to mix with whites, and thousands of young people were affected by the decision.
Gloria Ray is the story of the year that would change her life, but also of American racism and the slavery it grew out of, inextricably linked in the story of the United States. Elisabeth Åsbrink, with her eloquent narration and distinct voice, has a unique ability to crack open key moments of conflict, oppression, and inequality by weaving together strands of personal and national history.
A clear-eyed manual for building a life of meaning in the chaos of the modern world.
So you’ve realised life is meaningless. Religion is fake, your job is pointless, society is a charade, and everyone else is just pretending things are fine when, in reality, existential despair is the only logical reaction to any of this. You’re staring into the abyss, but author and spiritual director Britt Hartley is here to pull you back from the edge.
Hartley has travelled deep into the void of nihilism herself after deconstructing her faith and every other belief system she could think of, and she knows firsthand how to rebuild a meaningful life from scratch without sugar-coating or toxic positivity. In this book, she shares the tools of philosophy, spirituality, psychology, and creativity that have helped her and countless of her clients rediscover how to live. You’ll learn how to:
Yes, maybe it’s true that everything is stupid, the world is on fire, and nothing matters. But as Hartley demonstrates, that only means we have the opportunity to define our own lives in the ways that matter most and move forward with hope and purpose.
