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
The Guardian First Book Award longlist
17 August 2015Congratulations to Chigozie Obioma and Gavin McCrea, whose debut novels…
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Insights
An interview with Rudi Westendorp
7 August 2015It is the fear of facing death that keeps researchers and doctors away…
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Reclaiming lost art treasures stolen by the Nazis
2 August 2015Searle was an extremely rich man who bought a painting without…
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Congratulations to Chigozie Obioma
30 July 2015The Fishermen longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.
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Introducing our new children’s imprint — Scribble
27 July 2015Our first children's imprint will begin publishing in March 2016.
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Slavery to mass incarceration
17 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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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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Jenni Ogden receives Distinguished Career Award
29 June 2015Congratulations to Jenni Ogden, who will be receiving a Distinguished…
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Just Mercy wins the Carnegie Medal for Excellence
28 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
25 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
18 June 2015Congratulations to Just Mercy author Bryan Stevenson.
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The 2015 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers
17 June 2015Get those manuscripts ready — this year's prize is officially open.
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Q&A with Bryan Denson
10 June 2015Scribe staff ask Bryan Denson about writing The Spy's Son.
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