June new releases

This month Scribe is publishing a great mix of local and international titles.

All That I Remember About Dean Cola is a haunting new novel by Australian author Tania Chandler: a compelling portrait of mental illness, memory, and strength. In Rewilding the Urban Soul, Claire Dunn explores the wild in the city, swimming in the brown waters of the Yarra River and foraging for undomesticated food in the suburbs. The Ghost in the Garden, by Jude Piesse, is an account of Charles Darwin’s forgotten childhood garden — an exploration of memory, family, and the legacy of genius. In So Tell Me About the Last Time You Had Sex, renowned sex therapist and bestselling author of She Comes First, Ian Kerner, shares the program he has used to help thousands of couples achieve greater intimacy. King Richard is a riveting account of the crucial moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed, and ultimately toppled, Richard Nixon. The Union of Synchronised Swimmers, by award-winning Finnish author Cristina Sandu, is a deeply moving story about six women trapped behind the Iron Curtain, who dare to dream of escape.

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All That I Remember About Dean Cola

**The boys from back home stand beside the bed, watching her bleed onto the white sheet. ‘He only said to scare her,’ one of them says.**
Sidney is happily married to her firefighter husband and thinking about having a child, but her life has been marred by psychotic breakdowns. Haunted by memories of Dean Cola — the teenage crush who is an essential piece of the puzzle that is her past — she returns to the town where she grew up. Something unthinkable happened there, but is she strong enough to face it?
A compelling portrait of mental illness, memory, and the ways that the years when we ‘come of…

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Rewilding the Urban Soul

**We’re a famously nature-loving nation, yet 86 per cent of Australians call the city home. Amid the concrete and the busyness, how can we also answer the call of the wild?**
Once upon a time, a burnt-out Claire Dunn spent a year living off the grid in a wilderness survival program. Yet love and the possibilities of human connection drew her back to the city, where she soon found herself as overscheduled, addicted to her phone, and lost in IKEA as the rest of us. Given all the city offers — comfort, convenience, community, and opportunity — she wants to stay. But to do so, she’ll have to learn how to…

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So Tell Me About the Last Time You Had Sex

**A renowned sex therapist shares the program he has used to help thousands of couples achieve greater intimacy.**
Think about the last time you had sex. Who initiated it? When and where did it happen? What was off-limits and why? In the end, did the sex leave you motivated to have more?
Over the years, internationally recognised sex therapist and author of *She Comes First*, Ian Kerner, has perfected the art of the ‘sex script analysis’ — a way of looking at your sex life in action, moment by moment. In those details, an entire world is revealed. When the script works, we drop down into arousal and lose…

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The Ghost In The Garden

**The forgotten garden which inspired Charles Darwin becomes the modern-day setting for an exploration of memory, family, and the legacy of genius.**
Darwin never stopped thinking about the garden at his childhood home, The Mount. It was here, under the tutelage of his green-fingered mother and sisters, that he first examined the reproductive life of flowers, collected birds’ eggs, and began the experiments that would lead to his theory of evolution.
A century and a half later, with one small child in tow and another on the way, Jude Piesse finds herself living next door to this secret garden. Two acres of…

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The Union of Synchronised Swimmers

**It’s summer behind the Iron Curtain, and six girls are about to swim their way to the Olympics — and a new life.**
In an unnamed Soviet state, six girls meet each day to swim. At first, they play, splashing each other and floating languidly on the water’s surface. But soon the game becomes something more.
They hone their bodies relentlessly. Their skin shades into bruises. They barter cigarettes stolen from the factory where they work for swimsuits to stretch over their sunburnt skin. They tear their legs into splits, flick them back and forth, like herons. They force themselves to stop breathing.
When…

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King Richard

From an acclaimed British author, a sharply focused, riveting account — told from inside the White House — of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed, and ultimately toppled, a president.
In January 1973, Richard Nixon was inaugurated after winning re-election in a historic landslide. But by April his presidency had fallen apart as the Watergate scandal metastasised into what White House counsel John Dean called ‘a full-blown cancer’. *King Richard* is the intimate, utterly absorbing narrative of the tension-packed hundred days when the Watergate burglars and…

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King Richard

Michael Dobbs

RRP: $35.00 Pub date: 1 Jun 2021 Category: History of the Americas Cover view

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Rewilding the Urban Soul

Claire Dunn

RRP: $35.00 Pub date: 1 Jun 2021 Category: Memoirs Cover view

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All That I Remember About Dean Cola

Tania Chandler

RRP: $32.99 Pub date: 1 Jun 2021 Category: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Cover view

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So Tell Me About the Last Time You Had Sex

Ian Kerner

RRP: $35.00 Pub date: 1 Jun 2021 Category: Sex & sexuality, sex manuals Cover view

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The Union of Synchronised Swimmers

Cristina Sandu

RRP: $24.99 Pub date: 1 Jun 2021 Category: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Cover view

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The Ghost In The Garden

Jude Piesse

RRP: $35.00 Pub date: 1 Jun 2021 Category: Biography: science, technology & medicine Cover view

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