2027 is fast approaching, and the Scribe team is incredibly excited about the selection of brilliant fiction and nonfiction titles we will be sharing with the world in the new year. In recent weeks we've revealed some beautiful new covers across our socials, and they've garnered some lovely responses. Check out our new cover reveal posts below:
🖼️ EVERYTHING IS STUPID, THE WORLD IS ON FIRE, AND NOTHING MATTERS
A young man is gripped by one fear: that he’ll lose his mind.
With depression, alcoholism, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia spread across his family tree, the odds are not in his favour. So, he does what any analytically minded man might do: he tries to calculate the statistical probability of his own madness. What follows is a restless, darkly comic journey — from New York to Paris to Vienna — as he tries to outrun a fate that seems written into his DNA, only to end up working as a psychologist inside the very institution he’s spent his life fearing.
There, surrounded by stories that echo his own family’s, he begins to see with a new, hard-earned clarity. In this bestselling German debut, a potent blend of memoir and fiction, Engler unravels a compassionate tale of reconciliation in which the protagonist is forced to confront a question he has avoided all his life: What is normal?
Marking seventy years since the Little Rock crisis, Gloria Ray tells the sweeping and intimate story of Gloria Ray Karlmark and one of America’s defining struggles for racial justice.
In 1957 Gloria Ray dreamed of one day studying to become a nuclear physicist. She set her sights on Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas, and a few years after the US Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, at fourteen years old, Gloria enrolled.
But as Gloria approached Central High with the other black students on their first day, they were denied entry by armed National Guard troops and an angry white mob. In Gloria’s words, ‘That day my childhood ended.’
The Little Rock Nine, as the students became known, quickly garnered global attention, and the escalating tensions in Little Rock forced President Eisenhower to deploy federal troops to escort them into school. Every day they endured hostility, intimidation, and violence, paying a brutal price for seeking an education. Eventually, rather than accept integration, white Arkansas leaders closed public schools, depriving thousands of young people of a year of learning.
A groundbreaking tale of courage and resistance, this powerful collaboration between Gloria Ray Karlmark and acclaimed journalist Elisabeth Åsbrink tells Gloria’s story for the very first time. Gloria Ray provides essential historical context for this defining moment in the fight for civil rights and features first-person chapters from Gloria, as well as interviews with other members of the Little Rock Nine.
From the author of Diving, Falling comes a gripping family drama and a sharp examination of inheritance.
Once there were three sisters who lived in a house on a cliff, with their mother, Adeline, and their overbearing father, Winston. Now the Baruni daughters — Penelope, Laronda, and Alexis — are adults, and they’ve provoked their father’s wrath by signing over to Adeline the ownership of that seaside home, which he’d always intended to keep from her.
Desires shift, a pandemic looms, and the climate is changing. Penelope’s husband, Jim, whose marine research is eroding his belief in the future, is looking for new love. Laronda’s children are growing up and away from her, and she and her husband are growing apart. And Alexis, the sensitive one, does her best to carry on, despite the drama that threaten to upend them all.
Storm Tide is a portrait of a family living on the edge of land and in the turbulence of flux. With shades of King Lear, Mirmohamadi expertly explores the connections, chosen and unchosen, that keep us together, and tie us to the natural world.
A clear-eyed manual for building a life of meaning in the chaos of the modern world.
So you’ve realised life is meaningless. Religion is fake, your job is pointless, society is a charade, and everyone else is just pretending things are fine when, in reality, existential despair is the only logical reaction to any of this. You’re staring into the abyss — but author and spiritual director Britt Hartley is here to pull you back from the edge.
Hartley has travelled deep into the void of nihilism herself after deconstructing her faith and every other belief system she could think of, and she knows firsthand how to rebuild a meaningful life from scratch without sugar-coating or toxic positivity. In this book, she shares the tools of philosophy, spirituality, psychology, and creativity that have helped her and countless of her clients rediscover how to live. You’ll learn how to:
Yes, maybe it’s true that everything is stupid, the world is on fire, and nothing matters. But as Hartley demonstrates, that only means we have the opportunity to define our own lives in the ways that matter most — and move forward with hope and purpose.
Kylie Mirmohamadi is a writer and academic whose work and research spans domestic Australian landscapes, online fan fiction, and 19th-century English literature. She has a PhD in History and is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in English and Creative Writing at La Trobe University. Kylie lives with her family in Melbourne, where she often finds ideas for writing when walking among the tree-lined creeks of her inner-city suburb with her poodle. Her first novel, Diving, Falling, was published in 2024.
Leon Engler grew up in Munich and studied theatre, film, media, cultural studies, and psychology in Vienna, Paris, and Berlin. He has published numerous theatre plays, radio plays, and short stories and was awarded the 3sat Prize at the Bachmann Competition in 2022. He works as an author, psychologist, and lecturer in psychology and literary writing. Botany of Madness is his debut novel.
Alexandra Roesch is a bicultural, bilingual freelance translator based in Frankfurt, Germany. An experienced translator of fiction and nonfiction, she has an MA in translation from the University of Bristol and was longlisted for the 2018 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize.
Elisabeth Åsbrink is a journalist and multi-award-winning author. Her book 1947 won the prestigious Letterstedt Prize and has been translated into 19 languages. Her latest book is Made in Sweden.
Britt Hartley is an atheist spiritual director and educator with a master’s degree in applied theology, specialising in religious deconstruction, nihilism recovery, and secular meaning-making. As the founder of No Nonsense Spirituality, where she teaches courses and offers coaching, she has helped thousands of people move beyond despair and toward lives of clarity, connection, and courage. She lives in Boise, Idaho, with her four children and a dog named Pepperoni.
