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From the author of The Picture Bride, two women¿s lives and identities are intertwined ¿ through World War II and the Korean War ¿ revealing the harsh realities of class division in the early part of the 20th century. Can¿t I Go Instead follows the lives of the daughter of a Korean nobleman and her maidservant in the early 20th century. When the daughter¿s suitor is arrested as a Korean Independence activist, and she is implicated during the ...

We were all taught the fundamentals of writing well in school. But how do we write effectively in today¿s hyper-interactive world? When The Elements of Style and On Writing Well were published in 1959 and 1976, the internet hadn¿t been invented. Since then, there has been a radical transformation in how we communicate. The average adult receives over 100 emails and tens of text messages each day. With all this correspondence, gaining a busy re...

A haunting debut novel where dreams, family, and spirits collide. Night after night, Mackenzie - a young Cree woman living in Vancouver - has dreams that return her to a memory from before her sister Sabrina's untimely death. But when the waking world starts closing in, too - crows stalk her every move around the city, she gets threatening text messages from someone claiming to be Sabrina - Mackenzie knows this is more than she can handle alon...

The gripping story of Taiwan, from the flood myths of ancient legend to its 'Asian Tiger' economic miracle - and the looming threat of invasion by China. Once dismissed by the Kangxi Emperor as nothing but a 'ball of mud', Taiwan has a modern GDP larger than that of Sweden, in a land area smaller than Indiana. It is the last surviving enclave of the Republic of China, a lost colony of Japan, and claimed by Beijing as a rogue province - merely ...

A multi-award-winning journalist and former editor-in-chief of a major Australian newspaper searingly explores his Jewish identity at a time when a substantial ¿ and growing ¿ part of the left is opposed to the very existence of Israel as a Jewish state. Born in a displaced persons¿ camp two years after the end of the Holocaust, Michael Gawenda spent his childhood and teenage years in a left-wing non-Zionist Jewish youth group in Melbourne. Th...

A revolutionary framework for living well in a broken world, from acclaimed author and psychologist. How can I manage heartbreak? How do I cope with death? How can I learn to tolerate anxiety and hold hope? In this helpful, practical guide to good psychological health, Dr Ahona Guha shows us how to cope, thrive, and still feel hopeful for the future. Combining techniques from a range of therapeutic modalities, she demonstrates how we can build...

A great cricket series, as reported by a great cricket writer. High hopes were held for the Ashes of 2023. They were exceeded in an instant classic of five Tests between a bold England and a battling Australia, finally drawn two-all. Ashes 2023 captures all the drama and skill, as well as the controversy over a stumping at Lord¿s that followed in the tradition of Bodyline as a clash of cultures and of stereotypes. With a foot in both camps, Gi...

Award-winning author and master cultural analyst and forecaster, Douglas Rushkoff, investigates how the super rich are planning to leave us all behind, come the apocalypse. Had some great review coverage in hardback across all the broadsheets, ideal for readers of Michael Lewis Steven Pinker, and Daniel Kahneman.

Deeply researched and comprehensive, The Land of Hope and Fear provides rich, revelatory, and even-toned insights into the history and nature of Israeli society and politics, on the country¿s seventy-fifth anniversary. Author has strong UK connections and is a highly credible commentator on what is inevitably a contentious set of subjects.

For fans of The Black Swan and written by a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter, this is a fascinating deep dive into the world of billion-dollar traders and high-stakes crisis predictors who strive to turn extreme events into financial windfalls. There¿s no doubt that our world has gotten more extreme. Pandemics, climate change, superpower rivalries, technological disruption, political radicalisation, religious fundamentalism ¿ all threaten ...

Illustrated memoir that draws upon the Japanese myth of the Hyakki Yagy¿ ¿ the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons ¿ to tell the braided stories of the author¿s experience with bipolar disorder, racism, and her father¿s death. This is a memoir on how we live with beside the things that haunt us and is perfect for readers of In The Dream House and On Earth We¿re Briefly Gorgeous.

What is it like to radically change your life? Writer Alec Ash meets the Chinese who are doing just this, 'reverse migrating' from the cities to the remote countryside of southwest China - and joins them himself, in an extraordinary and inspiring journey of self-discovery. In 2020, Alec Ash left behind his old life as a journalist in buzzy Beijing, and moved to Dali, a rural valley in China's Yunnan province, centred around a great lake shaped...

Profiled by The New Yorker, and The New York Times, and frequently published in the likes of Granta, Harper¿s, The Paris Review, the London Review of Books, and The White Review, Diane Williams is the most significant flash fiction writer in the US today. Literary reviewers, editors, booksellers, and readers will know her name and be delighted that she is finally being published in the UK. For readers of Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, Kathryn Sc...

This book is a MUST READ book if you have tried all means in today's world and still can't find or keep a spouse for a Christian marriage that gets no divorce".

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New Years Day is no longer the start date to begin your new journey. You can hit the reset button at anytime and NOW is a great time to start on you 2.0. Just as you may feel sluggish after an amazing tour of Italy, where you ate your way through the country, guilty after a magnificent Thanksgiving meal with the family, or remorseful after a grand birthday celebration and need a deep detox to purge yourself of the gluttonous festivities, now m...

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David Copperfield meets Washington Black, this is a compelling coming-of-age story about the first Indian to set foot on American soil, for readers of The Essex Serpent and Golden Hill. A favourite in house at Scribe, we will be pulling out all the stops, with superproofs, a widespread bookseller campaign with POS, reviews and features, and radio like Open Book and Book at Bedtime.

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