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It's publication day for our October titles 🎉📚 🪽 The Song of Stork and Dromedary by Anjet Daanje, translated by David McKay - a masterful, multigenerational literary epic inspired by the life and work of Emily Brontë, which has been critically acclaimed as the Dutch novel of the century. 🏗 Towards Light by Tadao Ando, translated by Polly Barton - the multi-award-winning, self-taught architect shares his memories and wisdom of a life spent creating 'concrete poetry' and bringing Japanese design to the world. 🏛️ All The Presidents' Wars by Peter Bergen - a forensic investigation of America’s devastating war on terror and the consequences of four successive administration’s military and political decisions, from one of the US' leading authorities on foreign policy and national security. 🔑 The Gift of Not Belonging by Dr Rami Kaminski - a pioneering book on the distinct personality style of the otrovert, packed with expert knowledge and tools to help you unlock its unique advantages and thrive in a world that wants you to fit in. 🎲 Parlour Games for Friends and Family by Myfanwy Jones and Spiri Tsintziras - a book for fun-lovers aged four to 104, featuring 130 games that are perfect for rainy weekends, birthday parties and Christmas holidays to help you switch off your screens and make some memories. Let us know which you're keen to read first! 💫 by @scribe_uk
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We are thrilled that Pride and Prejudices by @keioyoshida has been longlisted for the @polariprize Book Prize this year! In it, internationally acclaimed human rights lawyer Keio Yoshida uncovers the ongoing battle for LGBTQ+ rights, how far we’ve come, and how much further we have to go. The Polari Prizes celebrate the best books by LGBTQ+ authors in the UK and Ireland. Congratulations Keio! by @scribe_uk
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Today is #BookshopDay and to celebrate, we asked a few Scribe authors to share the local bookshops they love to visit around the UK. As a small independent publisher, we know that bookshops do so much more than sell our books. You champion them, care about them, and help them find the readers who will love them too. So we want to say thank you. Not only today, but for every recommendation, every display, every conversation, and every moment you spend keeping books at the heart of your communities. Let us know your favourite bookshop to visit in the comments below! 📚❤️ by @scribe_uk
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This week we’re celebrating the publication of Anjet Daanje’s masterful The Song of Stork and Dromedary, translated by @davidmckay9534. Inspired by the work of Emily Brontë, it focuses on the lives of eleven characters across over 200 years. Each is connected by repetitions and recurrences, signs and symbols, but stands alone as its own distinct story Here’s a short introduction to each one of them. Who are you most interested to discover more about? After the death of her daughter, Susey, Susan Chester finds solace and purpose in preparing bodies for their burial. But an encounter with the corpse of Eliza May Drayden changes the course of her life. Grace Appleton lives a quiet life in the shadow of the Draydens, but her marriage to the widower of Eliza’s sister, Millicent, brings her closer to them than she had imagined. When Kathleen Chambers’s mother, Eliza May Drayden’s biographer, is disgraced and discredited, her family is thrown into poverty. Emery’s family believe he is cursed, that every first son is doomed to die young on a day relating to the number seven. He survives, but grows up lonely, imagining the ghost of Eliza May Drayden for company. In America, Clyde Middleton marries an enigmatic woman newly emigrated from England. At first they struggle to connect - until they begin writing novels for one another. The son of the gravedigger who buried Eliza May Drayden keeps a secret his whole life, only sharing it with his wife, Betty. Two twin girls share one identity and one name in order to take part in their father’s spiritualist scams, forging an intense, inseparable bond. Amelie grows up in thrall to her sister, with whom she shares a complex, turbulent relationship — until they are forced to flee their countryside home as it’s consumed by the Western Front. Dagmar and her sister, growing up in England, must conceal their German heritage as the Second World War breaks out. As they grow up, their hidden identities find an outlet in their letters to one another. The unremarkable son of an antique book collector forges a life and a family with a woman with a wildly opposing worldview — until disaster shakes his beliefs to their core. Ties, by @scribe_uk
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🔥 THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED 🔥 Today marks World Architecture Day and to celebrate, we're giving away 5 copies of Towards Light: A Philosophy of Life and Architecture by Tadao Ando. Winner of the Pritzker Prize and numerous other international awards, Ando's bold designs and their interplay with light, shadow, and nature have become emblematic symbols of modern architecture. Now, aged 85, he looks back at a lifetime of creating 'concrete poetry' and the wisdom he'd share with the next generation on achieving their dreams and designing spaces for everyone to enjoy. To enter... » Like this post » Tag a friend who loves design » Share it on your story for an extra entry! Competition open to UK residents only. Closing date 11.59pm on Thursday 8th October. The winners will be selected at random. This giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed or administrated by Instagram. ✨️ Good luck!!! ✨️ #WorldArchitectureDay #TadaoAndo #architecturedesign #designinspo #architecturelovers #ArchitectsOfInstagram by @scribe_uk
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The season's are changing and Halloween is just around the corner, so we've pulled together some thrilling reads that are perfect to cosy up with this October. 🫣 Last Day of a Prior Life by Andrés Barba, translated by Lisa Dillman - a deeply disquieting story about a woman who encounters an unblinking seven-year-old boy, trapped in a house from another era, and has to uncover what's connecting them. 💀 The Song of Stork and Dromedary by Anjet Daanje, translated by David McKay - a haunting literary epic inspired by the life and work of Emily Brontë, with eleven stunning chapters which meditate on love, loss, sisterhood, art, and legacy. 🫥 Body Double by Hanna Johansson, translated by Kira Josefsson - a tense, surreal thriller where obsession blurs the lines between lies and truth, and interrogates what it means to know yourself and to be known by others. 🧛 Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk, translated by Heather Cleary - a genre-blurring novel about vampires, mortality, loneliness and yearning, from one of the most exciting new voices of Latin America’s feminist gothic. 🧟 Monsterland: A Journey Around the World’s Dark Imagination by Nicholas Jubber - from ogres and zombies to vampires and giants, Nick travels around the globe in search of the monsters who have haunted us for centuries. 🏠 Devil House by John Darnielle - a gripping novel about murder, truth, artistic obsession, and the dangers of storytelling as a true crime writer is offered the chance for his big break - but at what cost. 💔 Worry Doll by Laura McPhee-Browne - a dark, daring psychosexual thriller as two women lose control of their relationship and themselves in this gripping exploration of desire and the power you lose when in love. 🥀 The Endling by Keely Jobe - an isolated feminist community begin to fracture under the weight of ideological divides and dwindling numbers in this unnerving, vivid novel about survival and the boundaries which separate us. 🔮 Hagtale by Sally O'Reilly - a spine-tingling tale full of dark magic, mythology and hurly burly which breathes new life into the origin story of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Which spooky stories do you love to read this season? 📚 by @scribe_uk
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🕊️🤍 HAPPY PUBLICATION WEEK 🤍⁠🕊️⁠ ⁠ The Song of Stork and Dromedary ⁠ by Anjet Daanje, translated by David McKay⁠ (@davidmckay9534)⁠ ⁠ The book that has been called the Dutch novel of the century, and its author named as a ‘formidable present-day contender’ for the Nobel Prize in Literature by The Wall Street Journal @wsj. ⁠ ⁠ In a rare peek behind the pages of this mythical book — author Anjet Daanje explains the philosophy behind its enigmatic title. ⁠ ⁠ ‘... You could translate the title The Song of Stork and Dromedary as The Song of Meaning and Sophistry. In other words, the title is a metaphor for life. ⁠ ⁠ "The Song" contains a torrent of stories and details, just like life itself, and every reader can find their own way through the novel, just as they can in life, making their own connections and assigning them their own meanings, and thus discovering their own rocks that give meaning to the world inside the novel ...’⁠ ⁠ Read Anjet Daanje's full explanation behind the title of her novel on the Scribe website. Link in our bio! 🔗🤍⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ✨️✨️✨️⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #bookstagram #scribepublications #fiction #bookish #wutheringheights #emilybronte #thebrontesisters by @scribe_uk
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Looking for some weekend activity inspiration? Parlour Games for Friends and Family sets out to revive the tradition of indoor family games: push aside the consoles, turn off the telly, and bring some silliness and connection back into your living room. This book is bursting with games of logic and memory, wordplay, role-play, and more - all of which will provide hours of fun when played with friends, family, partners and as groups. Here's a sneak peek of four featured games to try before the book publishes on October 8th in the UK! 🎲 🧩 🎭 🏆 by @scribe_uk
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☁️ cover reveal ☁️⁠ ⁠ coming march 2027, the long cloud by hector mackenzie ⁠ @hectormackenzieofficial⁠ ⁠xander is ageing out. a former high school jock turned model, he’s spent a decade in london riding a carousel of validation and success. now the ride is slowing down.⁠ ⁠ when his much-more-successful actor girlfriend, tessa k, buys him a plane ticket home to new zealand for the first time in ten years, xander returns as a stranger. the family farm is for sale. his mother is overbearing. his high school ex wants to reconnect. and his life is unravelling. ⁠ ⁠ then he meets someone younger, someone vibrant and unburdened, who makes him fall back in love with the small town he fled. but is she the cure for his problems or just another symptom of how empty his life has become?⁠ ⁠ in the long cloud, newcomer hector mackenzie captures the anxious rhythm of life in your 20s — a tender, often funny meditation on masculinity, beauty, and mortality that proves you might be able to go home, but you can never truly go back.⁠ ⁠ 'a novel about coming home after a long time away and feeling like you’ve time travelled. it’s about slipping into the pleasant haze of the past. it’s about the sickly sweet feeling of nostalgia and how quickly it curdles into something ugly and desperate … in xander, hector mackenzie captures the frenzies of youth and the ruins it can leave behind, delivering a man whose tragedy is no less gripping for being entirely self-inflicted.’ - joe murray, readings ‘a timely, timeless book about leaving and returning, failure and success, ambivalence and disappearance, things and people left behind. it’s funny, snarky, touching, and profound.’⁠ - chris kraus, author of i love dick and the four spent the day together⁠ @chriskraus7⁠ ⁠ holographic foil ⚡️ cover design by luke bird @lookbird out march 11th 2027, limited proofs are available now - message us for more info ✨ by @scribe_uk
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It's publication day for these brilliant titles! ❤️ Hell Days: Into the Inferno of Hormonal Mood Disorder by @lauraelizabethwoollett - a forensic, intimate examination of the under-researched condition of premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). 🎼 Across The Universe: The Magic and Mystery of the Beatles' Creativity by @stevetaylorauthor - a deep dive into the lives and minds of the Fab Four to unpick what made them so extraordinary. 🔥 The Vanishing Earth by James Crawford @jdcrawf - an incisive journey into the ideological forces which have shaped the planet and the pathways to repair. 👻 Monsterland by Nicholas Jubber @nickjubber - a ghoulish journey across the world to uncover the origin stories of the monsters who have haunted us for centuries. 💙 The Four Spent the Day Together by Chris Kraus @chriskraus7 - a sharp, probing novel about the pressures of lives lived on the edge. Which are you adding to your TBR? 📚 by @scribe_uk
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🤍 David McKay, the translator of A Song of Stork and Dromedary by Anjet Daanje, reads an excerpt from Chapter One 🤍 @davidmckay9534 reads in collaboration with Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud Pour a cup of tea, put on some headphones, and relax in a cosy spot, to enjoy this beautiful reading. If you’d like to enjoy more readings from the book by David, head over to @thesongofstorkanddromedary on Youtube. ✨✨✨ #scribepub #bookstagram #reading #asmr #fiction #anjetdaanje #translatedfiction by @scribe_uk
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Hell Days UK tour is happening this October! See me discuss Hell Days in London on 18 Oct @ozlitfestlondon @foylesforbooks Bristol on 20 Oct @verysmallbookshopbristol Manchester on 21 Oct @blackwellsmcr Sheffield on 22 Oct @junobookssheff Thank you @scribe_uk for organising, Neilma Sidney Travel Fund @writersvictoria for making this trip possible, and @fanzarts for OzLit. It’s going to be a whirlwind, but if anyone has London/ Bristol/ Manchester/ Sheffield recs, send them this way. by @scribe_uk
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