Scribe acquires new Savva nonfiction

Scribe Publications has acquired world rights to Earthquake: Signposts to the election that shook Australia by Niki Savva.

Earthquake is a combination of selections from Savva’s columns from the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald and new analysis to tell the complete story of an epoch-making period in Australian politics, said the publisher.

Following ‘a sequence of events that resulted in an improbable triumph for Labor and a historic drubbing for the Liberal Party’ in the 2025 federal election, and captured in Savva’s ‘typically uncompromising, penetrating, and prescient way’, the book provides ‘a considered analysis of what went on behind the scenes, accompanied by [Savva’s] trademark access to important players and eyewitnesses, before an election that transformed Australian politics,’ said the publisher.

Savva is one of the most senior correspondents in the Canberra Press Gallery. She was twice political correspondent for the Australian, and headed up the Canberra bureaus of both the Herald Sun and the Age. She was Peter Costello’s press secretary for six years and on John Howard’s staff for three. She is a regular columnist for the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, and often appears on ABC TV’s Insiders.

Scribe plans to publish Earthquake: Signposts to the election that shook Australia on 24 November 2025.

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