Scribe Acquires Sentinels by Michael Dulaney
Scribe is very pleased to announce the acquisition of world rights for Sentinels: dispatches from the human–animal interface by Michael Dulaney.
A zoonosis is any disease transmitted between animals and humans, and in the era of climate change they are on the rise. In a journey that will take readers from southern China to West Africa, from Antarctica to Australia, Dulaney tracks the surprising ways that people and animals are navigating this shared future — along the way meeting camels in Saudi Arabian beauty pageants, coastal seals with bird flu, and genetically engineered disease-proof pigs. In prose that is entertaining, moving, and deeply informed, Sentinels is not just about fears of contagion, but about the wonder of nature, and understanding our species’ capacity to regenerate and revitalise as much as to destroy.
Senior editor David Golding comments that, ‘This is a story with global relevance. It’s terrific writing, well researched, and best of all Michael brings the reader along with him and makes us understand the importance of the topic without sensationalising it.’
Dulaney is a writer and journalist who was shortlisted for the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers in 2017. For many years he was the environment columnist for The Lifted Brow, where he wrote about the human–animal interface. His science and nature writing has been published by The Monthly, Literary Hub, The Big Issue, and the BBC, among others.
Sentinels will be published in 2026.