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In this section, you'll find all the latest (and the oldest) news relating to our books and authors, and to our Melbourne and London offices.
Awards, acquisitions, author tours, reprints, a bit of gossip, and the occasional job listing — it's all here.
So if it's your secret dream to work at Scribe, or you just like knowing what's happening in the world of publishing, then read on.
And then get back to reading a good book.

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Two Scribe titles shortlisted for 2024 International Booker Prize
10 April 2024Congratulations to all of the writers and translators.
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Two Scribe titles longlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize
12 March 2024Congratulations to the writers and translators of What I’d Rather Not…
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Two books on NPR’s Best of 2023
6 December 2023Birth Canal and Mater 2–10 on NPR’s best of 2023.
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Flic named one of New York Public Library’s top 50 comics of 2023
24 October 2023Flic has been recommended as one of the best new comics for adults.
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The Last Yakuza extract in Rolling Stone
18 October 2023“Some stories are best told from the end.”
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5 questions with Dr Ahona Guha (Reclaim)
1 August 2023On hope, the writing process, and a new-found respect for psychologists.
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Scribe acquires new graphic nonfiction by Jeff Sparrow and Sam Wallman
1 May 202312 Rules for Strife will be published in time for May Day 2024.
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A System So Magnificent it is Blinding longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023
15 March 2023Congratulations to Amanda Svensson and Nichola Smalley.
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Jan Morris in The New York Times
20 December 2022Jan Morris ‘properly situates Morris in the literary canon.’
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Read an extract: Utopia by Heidi Sopinka
21 November 2022Read a short extract from Utopia by Heidi Sopinka.
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In the media: A System So Magnificent it is Blinding
21 November 2022Some reviews of A System So Magnificent it is Blinding.
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International Day of Translation 2022
30 September 2022Scribe’s 2022 titles in translation
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Our Members Be Unlimited: out now
5 September 2022A preview of Sam Wallman’s groundbreaking work of comics journalism.
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International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2022
9 August 2022Celebrate International Day of World's Indigenous Peoples with these…
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