My kind-of life: Oliver Mol on ‘Lion Attack!’
Lion Attack! (Scribe, May), the first book from Australian writer Oliver Mol, co-winner of the inaugural Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers, is part memoir and part make-believe. Reviewer Chloe Townson...
Arnott wins 2014 Scribe Nonfiction Prize
Tasmanian writer Robbie Arnott has won the 2014 Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers.Arnott, who was shortlisted for the prize in 2013, was announced as the winner at the Express...
Scribe 2014 nonfiction prize shortlist announced
Scribe has announced the shortlisted titles for its second annual nonfiction prize for young writers.The prize, run in conjunction with Express Media, offers the winner a cash prize of $1500;...
Scribe acquires crime thrillers
Scribe has acquired world rights in two crime thrillers by Melbourne writer and librarian J M Green. Good Money was shortlisted in the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an...
Scribe acquires book on meth addiction expanded from ‘Saturday Paper’ article
Scribe has acquired world rights to The Ice Age: A Journey into Crystal Meth Addiction by freelance journalist Luke Williams, an expanded version of an article by Williams published in...
Scribe acquires bookseller’s award-winning debut in two-book deal
Scribe has acquired Fever of Animals by Miles Allinson, the winning entry in the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. Scribe acquired world rights in the novel...
New office, staff changes at Scribe UK
Scribe has relocated its UK office and announced several staff changes.The UK office, which opened in early 2013, is now located at 2 John Street in Clerkenwell in a ‘listed...
Gale joins Scribe
Scribe Publications has announced the appointment of Sarina Gale as part-time sales coordinator. Gale is a bookseller at The Sun Bookshop in Melbourne and has previously worked as a marketing...
New appointments at Scribe
Scribe Publications has appointed a new editor and publicist to its team.Lesley Halm has been appointed editor, replacing Ian See, who has taken up a position as editor at the...
New appointments at Scribe
Lesley Halm has been appointed editor at Scribe Publications, replacing Ian See, who has taken up a position as editor at the University of Queensland Press. Halm, who begins in...
Scribe launches book club with ACF
Scribe and the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) have partnered to offer a book club for ‘environmentally-minded book lovers’.The ACF is inviting its members to sign up to host or join...
Gwyn Jones signs ‘nonfiction novel’ for Scribe UK
Scribe UK editor-at-large Philip Gwyn Jones has signed his first deal for the publisher: a ‘nonfiction novel’ based on the life of killer Raoul Moat by journalist Andrew Hankinson. The Bookseller...
Gwyn Jones to join Scribe UK
Philip Gwyn Jones has been appointed to the newly created role of editor-at-large at Scribe Publications UK. Gwyn Jones, who is the former executive publisher of Portobello Books and Granta...
Scribe appoints Philip Gwyn Jones as UK editor-at-large
Scribe Publications has made its first editorial appointment for its UK office, appointing former Granta Books publisher Philip Gwyn Jones to the part-time role of editor-at-large. Scribe said in a...
Joint winners awarded Scribe nonfiction prize
Scribe has announced the joint winners of its inaugural nonfiction prize for young writers, run in partnership with Express Media. The winning titles are: ‘I Don’t Know’ by Briohny Doyle ‘34 Memories from...
Scribe announces shortlist for nonfiction prize
Scribe has announced the shortlist for its inaugural nonfiction prize for young writers, run in partnership with Express Media. The shortlisted pieces are: ‘A Year in Peru’ by Elizabeth Bryer...
BOOK REVIEW: Stop Press: The Last Days of Newspapers (Rachel Buchanan, Scribe)
From her first job as a junior reporter at a local paper in New Zealand to her time as a subeditor at the Age in the early 1990s, Rachel Buchanan...
Read ahead: Preview of 2014 titles
Kate Blackwood rounds up publishers’ top picks for 2014. Fiction Maxine Beneba Clarke’s debut short-story collection is Hodder and Headline sales and marketing director Justin Ractliffe’s top pick for 2014....
Keen for 2014: A preview of forthcoming junior titles
Publishers tell Brad Jefferies about their favourite forthcoming children’s and YA books. Allen & Unwin Redgum’s popular Vietnam War song I Was Only Nineteen (John Schumann, illus by Craig Smith)...
Tuffield to join Affirm Press
Aviva Tuffield will join Melbourne-based publisher Affirm Press in the role of publisher this month. Affirm Press said in a statement that Tuffield, who has left Scribe Publications, where she...