We’re very happy to see two Scribe titles on the shortlist for the 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. Rise & Shine by Patrick Allington has been shortlisted for the Fiction Award, and Fathoms by Rebecca Giggs has been shortlisted for the Non-Fiction Award.
The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature are presented by the South Australian Government and managed by the State Library of South Australia.
Congratulations to Patrick, Rebecca, and all shortlisted authors and their publishers. Winners will be announced in a special ceremony at Adelaide Writers’ Week on Saturday 5 March 2022 as part of the Adelaide Festival.
Each morning, the last humans start their day with graphic footage from the front. This is what sustains them — literally.
In a world where eight billion souls have perished, the survivors huddle together apart, perpetually at war, in the city-states of Rise and Shine. Yet this war, far from representing their doom, is their means of survival. For their leaders have found the key to life when crops, livestock, and the very future have been blighted — a key that turns on each citizen being moved by human suffering. Yet is this small hope, this compassion, enough to sustain them against the despair born…
WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION
WINNER OF THE NIB LITERARY AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION
HIGHLY COMMENDED IN THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATION
A SUNDAY INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR
‘There is a kind of hauntedness in wild animals today: a spectre related to environmental change … Our fear is that the unseen spirits that move in them are ours. Once more, animals are a moral force.’
When Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beach in Australia, she began to wonder how the lives of whales might shed light…
Patrick Allington
Patrick Allington is a writer and editor. His fiction includes the…
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Rebecca Giggs
Rebecca Giggs is a writer from Perth, Western Australia. Her work has…
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