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Need to get away from it all for a while? Annika Norlin's novel 'Colony' (translated by Alice E. Olsson, courtesy of Scribe Publications) shows the pros and cons of life off-grid ;) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/c...
March 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Happy Australian publication day to me! Thanks to everyone @scribepub.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Today in the ARB: Thảo Tô reviews “Brothers and Ghosts” by Khuê Phạm, tr from German by Charles Hawley and Daryl Lindsey @scribepub.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/brothers-and...
March 1, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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In 2014, at today’s prices, the equivalent of $53,000,000,000 of Bitcoin (600,000) vanished from a bitcoin exchange in Tokyo—Mt.Gox.
It was at the time the largest heist of cryptocurrency in history.
And for me, it was the start of a story that I would follow for almost a decade
#TheDevilTakesBTC
February 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Even in hell, Bitcoin talks.

Revealing THE DEVIL TAKES BITCOIN by @tokyovice.bsky.social.

From the author of Tokyo Vice comes the wild, true story of cyber-era commerce, crime, cold-hard cash, & one of the greatest heists in history.

🇦🇺 2 Sep AU+NZ⁠
🇺🇸 14 Oct US⁠
🇬🇧 6 Nov UK⁠
February 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Delighted to share that RESERVOIR BITCHES by Dahlia de la Cerda, translated by @sanschaises.bsky.social & Heather Cleary, has been longlisted for the 2025 International @thebookerprizes.bsky.social! 🎉

Huge congratulations to the author, translators, and all the other longlisted writers. 📚✨
February 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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We are delighted to reveal the #InternationalBooker2025 longlist – a feast of fiction from around the world, featuring ‘stories from everywhere, for everyone’.

➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
The International Booker Prize 2025 | The Booker Prizes
The longlist of 12 or 13 books will be announced on Tuesday, 25 February 2025 at 2pm (GMT).
thebookerprizes.com
February 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Gideon Haigh’s fascinating review of ‘Working for the Brand’, in which he describes the Antoinette Lattouf case as “that peculiar hill on which the ABC elected to die”.
Freedom, served chilled • Gideon Haigh
A high-profile lawyer defends employees’ rights to free speech, regardless of their politics
insidestory.org.au
February 20, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Yes! There's another big book bundle to be won in our Last Days of Summer #BookGiveaway today. But hurry - entries close midnight TONIGHT Wed 19 Feb 2025:
https://buff.ly/41ijAxn
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@milan2pinsk.bsky.social
#BookSky 💙 📚
February 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Limited time only! @joshbornstein.bsky.social's WORKING FOR THE BRAND is a Kindle Daily Deal today.

www.amazon.com.au/Working-Bran...
February 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
We’re thrilled to announce THE FOUR SPENT THE DAY TOGETHER, Chris Kraus’s first novel in over a decade—a haunting, genre-defying exploration of a real-life teenage murder, class, and generational cycles.

Coming this October.
February 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Secrets and lies in the Austrian countryside as the border crumbles and a new age dawns - Eva Menasse's 'Darkenbloom' (translated by Charlotte Collins, courtesy of Scribe Publications):
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‘Darkenbloom’ by Eva Menasse (Review)
With #JanuaryInJapan done and dusted for another year, it’s time (if only temporarily) to leave the land of the rising sun behind and head for pastures new.  That starts today with an excursi…
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February 4, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Thanks to @jimbostanford.bsky.social for reviewing Working for the Brand for the Journal of Australian Political Economy. Extract 👇
January 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The loudest megaphone: how Trump mastered our new attention age

An adapted extract from THE SIRENS’ CALL by @chrislhayes.bsky.social
The loudest megaphone: how Trump mastered our new attention age
The old model of political debate is over, and spectacle beats argument every time. How did we get here?
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Wonderful to see Miranda Darling’s THUNDERHEAD in @readingsbooks.bsky.social’s best fiction books of 2024.

Vote for your favourite reads from their best books of 2024 lists for a chance to win a $100 Readings gift card: www.surveymonkey.com/r/3YVQ2L6
Every year our staff vote for their favourite books of the year. Here are the best Australian fiction books of 2024, as voted by Readings' staff. Congratulations to all the authors!
Learn more about these excellent books here: www.readings.com.au/news/best-au... 💙Books #books #booksky #ausfiction
January 23, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Today's review:
Ann Skea on Eva Menasse's new novel Darkenbloom:
newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/eva-menasse-...
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#EvaMenasse
#BookSky 💙📚
#ThePastIsNotThePast
January 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Coming February 6.

Apple Cider Vinegar, the true-ish story of Belle Gibson — inspired by the book THE WOMAN WHO FOOLED THE WORLD by Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano.
Apple Cider Vinegar | Official Trailer | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
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January 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Thrilled to see two Scribe books on the excellent 2025 @dublinlitaward.bsky.social longlist!

VLADIVOSTOK CIRCUS by Elisa Shua Dusapin (trans. Aneesa Abbas Higgins) and FIRE EXIT by @morgantalty.bsky.social — out in Australia next month!

Congratulations to all the longlisted authors & translators.
January 16, 2025 at 5:26 AM
New year, new books!

We’re back in 2025 with four January titles: a compassionate and no-nonsense look at the loneliness epidemic, a dazzling biography of April Ashley, and acclaimed novels from Austria and Nigeria.⁠🧵
January 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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A polyglot of translators in search of an author, in an enchanted Polish forest? The perfect Christmas read, I'd say ❤️❄️🎄📚 @scribepub.bsky.social
December 23, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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Our runaway bestselling crime book for 2024 is The Port Fairy Murders by Robert Gott. And this one was released in 2015 - illustrating the power of place. #diaryofabookseller @scribepub.bsky.social
January 2, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Revealing the stunning new cover for KATARAINA by Becky Manawatu!⁠ 🌕

Unflinching in its portrayal of the darkness and tender in its harnessing of the hope that future generations represent.

🗓️🌏 Pub April 2025
🎨 Artwork by Raukawa Kiri
🔗 scribepublications.com.au/kataraina
December 16, 2024 at 4:00 AM
In 2024, we've had the pleasure of publishing local and international fiction from some of the most exciting authors today ⚡️❤️⁠

Here are our top 5 bestsellers in fiction: ⁠

1. We All Lived in Bondi Then 🌊⁠
2. Thunderhead 🌩️⁠
3. The Extinction of Irena Rey 🌳⁠
4. Bear 🐻⁠
5. Diving, Falling 🌀
December 12, 2024 at 5:31 AM