Local writers
At Scribe, we’re proud to publish and support local authors, so we’re offering 20% off all our 2024 titles by Victorian contributors.
Use the code VIC2024 at checkout to get 20% of any or all of thse fantastic titles.
12 Rules for Strife
This is a handbook for change. Because we all know ways in which life could be better. And it can be better. We can make it better.
We don’t need to wait for a leader or saviour. We don’t need to limit ourselves to comments and clicks. In this stunningly original comic-book tour of a serious topic, Jeff Sparrow and Sam Wallman explore 12 powerful ideas distilled from the history of struggle for better lives, better working conditions, and a better world. They show how solidarity can be built across growing divisions — without compromising our values.
‘Strife’ is just another word for making…
Diving, Falling
It’s never too late to rewrite your own story.
For years, Leila Whittaker has been the mediator in her family. She smoothes ruffled feathers between her sons; endures the volatile moods of their father, the acclaimed Australian artist Ken Black; and even swallows the bitter pill of Ken’s endless affairs. All this, for the quiet hum of creative freedom her marriage provides. Or so she tells herself.
When Ken dies, leaving his artist’s estate to their two sons, and the pointed amount of sixty-nine thousand dollars to his muse, Anita, Leila decides she’s had enough. It’s time to seek some peace (and…
Melbourne Ghost Signs
A beguiling photographic collection of the faded signs and half-hidden logos of Melbourne, revealing the historic tales — big and small — of this ever-changing city.
From the gold-rush years to the Swinging Sixties, from Robur Tea to Tarax soft drinks, this city can never settle. In a process of continual renewal, old buildings are incorporated into new, both uncovering and obscuring snippets of history. Ghost signs provide hints to our common heritage, ready to be picked up by the keen eye and quick shutter.
Sean Reynolds, a transplanted American, first became fascinated by these old signs while…
Life Skills for a Broken World
A revolutionary framework for living well in a broken world, from acclaimed author and psychologist.
How can I manage heartbreak? How do I cope with death? How can I learn to tolerate anxiety and have hope?
In this helpful, practical, and realistic guide to good psychological health, Dr Ahona Guha shows us how to cope, thrive, and still feel hopeful for the future. Combining techniques from a range of therapeutic modalities, she demonstrates how we can build a range of essential psychological skills, and apply them to live a more tranquil and joyful life.
Life Skills for a Broken World is a breath of fresh…
Follow Your Gut
Meet the ecosystem inside you …
A timid Bifidobacterium named Biffy is forced to leave their family and become part of a new community, in the gut of a newborn human baby.
Follow Your Gut is a comic that ate a biology textbook. It’s an epic adventure set over the first three years of a new life, exploring one of the most important relationships you will ever have — the one with your gut microbiome.
Created by artists, scientists, and educators, this story is for anyone who’s curious about the human–microbe symbiosis, and what all those trillions of bacteria are doing down there in your…
When Cops Are Criminals
A powerful indictment of the criminal behaviour of police officers, and a call for institutional reform, edited by the multi-award-winning author of Black and Blue.
When Cops Are Criminals examines the widespread problem of police brutality and corruption from the perspectives of those who understand it in depth. Pulling together the accounts of survivors, campaigners, and academics, it explores different forms of criminal behaviour by police, the factors that contribute to it, the impact it has on victims, and the challenges of holding perpetrators accountable.
Told with candour, honesty, bravery, and…
Working for the Brand
Josh Bornstein asks how our major corporations have come to exercise repressive control over the lives of their employees, and explores what can be done to repair the greatest threat to democracy — the out-of-control corporation.
When you go to work, you agree to exchange your labour in exchange for your pay packet, right? Actually, you may not realise it, but you are also selling your rights to free speech and to participate in democracy. Welcome to corporate cancel culture, a burgeoning phenomenon that is routinely ignored in debates about free speech. If you work for a large company, it will not…
Twenty-Two Impressions
A poetic new essay collection in which the symbols of the tarot brush up against life in a changing world.
The Tarot de Marseille is a 16th-century set of playing cards, the deck on which the occult use of tarot was originally based. When Jessica Friedmann bought her first pack, the unfamiliar images sparked a deep immersion in the art, symbols, myths, and misrepresentations of Renaissance-era tarot.
Over the years that followed, and as tarot became a part of her daily rhythm, Friedmann’s life was touched by floods and by drought, by devastating fires and a pandemic, creating an environment in which the…
Best Australian Political Cartoons 2024
The year in politics as observed by Australia’s funniest and most perceptive political cartoonists.
Featuring Dean Alston, Badiucao, Matt Bissett-Johnson, Peter Broelman, Harry Bruce, Mark David, Christopher Downes, Andrew Dyson, John Farmer, First Dog on the Moon, Matt Golding, Megan Herbert, Judy Horacek, Fiona Katauskas, Mark Knight, Jon Kudelka, Glen Le Lievre, Johannes Leak, Alan Moir, David Pope, Geoff Pryor, David Rowe, John Shakespeare, Phil Somerville, John Spooner, Andrew Weldon, and Cathy Wilcox.