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Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 23 January 2023
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Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold large print rights for North America to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to Thorndike Press. Jacinta di Mase Management, with Sujin Lena...

Children of Tomorrow (J R Burgmann, Upswell) 

Tuesday, 17 January 2023
J R Burgmann’s debut novel is an intergenerational story that foresees a century of environmental devastation. We begin in the present day, when one of our protagonists, Arne, bears witness...

The Wakes (Dianne Yarwood, Hachette) 

Tuesday, 17 January 2023
When Clare’s husband tells her one night that he’s unhappy, she’s not sure what to do—but helping her new friend Louisa start a funeral catering business is the last thing...

One Illumined Thread (Sally Colin-James, Fourth Estate) 

Tuesday, 17 January 2023
Fans of Sarah Winman and Pip Williams will love Sally Colin-James’s debut novel One Illumined Thread, an intriguing story of three women separated by centuries yet inextricably connected by their...

Judgement Day (Mali Waugh, Macmillan) 

Tuesday, 17 January 2023
Mali Waugh’s debut novel opens with an omniscient narrator observing that there were no signs or omens that family court judge Kaye Bailey was to be murdered that day. Due...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 16 January 2023
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Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 11 January 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold the following rights to The Bookbinder of Jericho (Pip Williams, April):  North American (Ballantine), UK (Chatto), Slovak (Vydavatelstvo Motyl), Taiwanese (Business Weekly), Finnish (Into...

Dark Mode (Ashley Kalagian Blunt, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Dark Mode opens with the graphic discovery of a woman disturbingly murdered in the same way as the infamous, unsolved case of the Black Dahlia. Also disturbing for Reagan Carsen,...

Once a Stranger (Zoya Patel, Hachette) 

Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Following on from her debut memoir No Country Woman, Zoya Patel’s novel Once a Stranger tackles the same themes of cultural bereavement, being caught between two different worlds and the...

Temperance (Carol Lefevre, Wakefield) 

Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Award-winning author Carol Lefevre’s latest novel, Temperance, is the touching story of a woman attempting to make sense of a childhood memory. The book begins in 1963 in South Australia,...

Downtown Sewertown (Tull Suwannakit, Ford St) 

Tuesday, 10 January 2023
CBCA notable author-illustrator Tull Suwannakit has crafted his picture book Downtown Sewertown to depict a refugee experience. It is also a cautionary tale about the environment. A mouse, fox, rabbit...

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Monday, 9 January 2023
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Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 7 December 2022
Sales  Children’s/YA Scholastic Australia has licensed Slovenian and Arabic rights to The Bad Guys Episode 1, Episode 2: Mission unpluckable and Episode 3: The furball strikes back (Aaron Blabey); and...

Sea Glass (Rebecca Fraser, Wombat Books) 

Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Rebecca Fraser is a vibrant voice in Australian junior fiction. Her novel Sea Glass is the beautifully executed story of 11-year-old Cailin, a pre-teen who is stuck with her mother...

Shirley (Ronnie Scott, Hamish Hamilton) 

Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Ronnie Scott’s second novel marks the beginning of a great remembering—in which artists reflect on the summer of 2019-20, a summer that we previously thought was going to be marked...

The Hotel Witch (Jessica Miller, Text) 

Tuesday, 6 December 2022
With a cast of larger-than-life characters that almost pop off the page, The Hotel Witch is the wonderfully imaginative new adventure from Jessica Miller, who previously brought us The Republic...

A Routine Infidelity (Elizabeth Coleman, Pantera)

Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Small-time private investigator Edwina ‘Ted’ Bristol spends her days serving court documents and exposing cheating spouses, but she longs for the dangerous and exciting kind of high-profile crime case that...

Viking Women (Lisa Hannett, Thames & Hudson) 

Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Literature academic and speculative fiction author Lisa Hannett has written an evocative account of the varied lives of women during the Viking era. Hannett uses her vast knowledge of Vikings...

Resistance (Jacinta Halloran, Text) 

Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Resistance is the fourth novel by the award-winning author of Dissection and Pilgrimage, Jacinta Halloran. Narrated by family therapist Nina, it follows the Agostino family, mandated to see Nina after...

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Monday, 5 December 2022
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