September New Releases

With September comes seven new Scribe books. These titles range from social change through science, farming, consensual non-monogamy, and the warped reality of the ultra-rich, to more quiet fiction titles exploring identity and creativity.

The Age of Uncertainty is an epic page-turning history about how by revolutionising physics, a group of physicists also redefined our world and the reality we live in. Farm takes readers on a personal journey through the heart of the industrialised global food system to share what life as a new farmer is really like when you're trying to survive but also find a path to a cooler future. Survival of the Richest is an astonishing book of social analysis showing us how to get beyond The Mindset, a silicon Valley-style certainty that with enough money and the right technology, they can break the laws of physics, economics, and morality. From the award winning author of Winter in Sokcho, The Pachinko Parlour is a nuanced interrogation of identity and belonging, following Claire as she divides her time between tutoring twelve-year-old Mieko and listlessly passing time at her grandparents'. Set in the male-dominated art scene of 1970s California, Utopia is a haunting but beguiling book about art, love, and creativity. Written by journalist Pieter van Os, Hiding in Plain Sight is an extraordinary investigation into the survival story of an Orthodox Jewish woman who survived wartime Poland by pretending to be a Catholic. Lastly, in Polysecure polyamorous psychotherapist Jessica Fern offers a practical translation of the principles of attachment theory to consensually non-monogamous relationships.

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The Age of Uncertainty

**The epic, page-turning history of how a group of physicists toppled the Newtonian universe in the early decades of the twentieth century.**
Marie Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, and Albert Einstein didn’t only revolutionise physics; they redefined our world and the reality we live in. In *The Age of Uncertainty*, Tobias Hürter brings to life the golden age of physics and its dazzling, flawed, and unforgettable heroes and heroines. He immerses us in a half century of global turmoil against which some of humankind’s greatest and strangest scientific discoveries…

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Farm

**Is it possible to survive as a new farmer and change the future of farming at the same time?**
For years we’ve been told that the food system is destroying the planet. That there are too many cows and tractors, too much fertiliser, too much waste, and that farmers and food manufacturers are polluting our atmosphere. But we’ve also been told that food can help save us from the worst of global warming. How can it be both destroyer and saviour?
In 2018, Nicola Harvey and her husband, Pat, left their careers and inner-city Sydney life to farm cattle in rural New Zealand. They thought it would be exciting,…

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Survival of the Richest

**The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind.**
Five mysterious billionaires summoned Douglas Rushkoff to a desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive The Event: the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came to understand that these men were under the influence of The Mindset, a Silicon Valley–style certainty that they can break the laws of physics, economics, and morality to escape a disaster of their own making — as long as they have enough money and the right technology.
In *Survival of the Richest*, Rushkoff traces the origins of…

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The Pachinko Parlour

**From the author of *Winter in Sokcho*, which won the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature.**
The days are beginning to draw in. The sky is dark by seven in the evening. I lie on the floor and gaze out of the window. Women’s calves, men’s shoes, heels trodden down by the weight of bodies borne for too long.
It is summer in Tokyo. Claire finds herself dividing her time between tutoring twelve-year-old Mieko in an apartment in an abandoned hotel and lying on the floor at her grandparents: daydreaming, playing Tetris, and listening to the sounds from the street above. The heat rises; the days…

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Utopia

**It’s okay for men to make bad art. There’s no price on their head for doing it … Nothing for men is pre-determined, except their chance at great success.**
*Los Angeles, 1978.*
When Romy, a gifted young artist in the male-dominated art scene of 1970s California, dies in suspicious circumstances, it is not long before her art-star husband Billy finds a replacement.
Paz, fresh out of art school in New York, returns to California to take her place. But she is haunted by Romy, who is everywhere: in the photos and notebooks and art strewn around the house, and in the eyes of the baby she left behind.
As Paz…

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Hiding in Plain Sight

**An extraordinary Holocaust survival story about a young Jewish woman who managed to survive in wartime Poland by pretending to be a Catholic.**
Polish Catholics believed she was one of them. A devoted Nazi family took her in as if she was their own daughter. She fell in love with a German engineer who built aeroplanes for the Luftwaffe. What none of these people knew was that Mala Rivka Kizel had been born into a large Orthodox Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland, in 1926. By using her charm, intelligence, blonde hair, and blue eyes to assume different identities, she was the only member of her family to…

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Polysecure

**A practical translation of the principles of attachment theory to non-monogamous relationships.**
Attachment theory has entered the mainstream, but most discussions focus on how we can cultivate secure monogamous relationships. What if, like many people, you’re striving for secure, happy attachments with more than one partner?
Polyamorous psychotherapist Jessica Fern breaks new ground by extending attachment theory into the realm of consensual non-monogamy. Using her nested model of attachment and trauma, she expands our understanding of how emotional experiences can influence our relationships. Then, she…

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The Age of Uncertainty

Tobias Hürter

RRP: $35.00 Pub date: 30 Aug 2022 Category: History of science Cover view

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Utopia

Heidi Sopinka

RRP: $29.99 Pub date: 30 Aug 2022 Category: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Cover view

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Polysecure

Jessica Fern

RRP: $32.99 Pub date: 30 Aug 2022 Category: Alternative lifestyles Cover view

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Survival of the Richest

Douglas Rushkoff

RRP: $29.99 Pub date: 20 Sep 2022 Category: Society & culture: general Cover view

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The Pachinko Parlour

Elisa Shua Dusapin

RRP: $24.99 Pub date: 30 Aug 2022 Category: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Cover view

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Hiding in Plain Sight

Pieter van Os

RRP: $35.00 Pub date: 30 Aug 2022 Category: True stories of heroism, endurance & survival Cover view

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Farm

Nicola Harvey

RRP: $32.99 Pub date: 30 Aug 2022 Category: Memoirs Cover view

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