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Monday, 11 April 2022
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Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 6 April 2022
Sales Nonfiction Spinifex Press has sold French translation rights to Towards the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood (ed by Marie Josèphe Devillers & Ana-Luana Stoicea-Deram) to Les Éditions L’échapee. Children’s/YA Berbay...

Stella Prize, CBCA, NSW Prem’s shortlists 

Wednesday, 6 April 2022
The London Book Fair, which runs this week, sees several Australian publishers attending in person after more than two years of attending rights fairs virtually, while Canberra Writers Festival has...

Black River (Matthew Spencer, A&U) 

Tuesday, 5 April 2022
He’s been dubbed the Blue Moon Killer: someone who has been killing young women along Sydney’s Parramatta River whenever the moon is full. Sydney is on edge, and the cops,...

The Making of Her (Bernadette Jiwa, Bantam) 

Tuesday, 5 April 2022
The Making of Her is a historical family drama that immediately conjures the sense of a time not so long ago. Spanning the 1960s to the 1990s, this cross between...

Hard Joy: Life and writing (Susan Varga, Upswell) 

Tuesday, 5 April 2022
Susan Varga spent the first half of her life having affairs with inappropriate men, including some of the older leading lights of the libertarian Sydney Push. At the same time,...

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Monday, 4 April 2022
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Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Polish rights to The Natural History of Love (Caroline Petit, May) to Świat Książki. Giramondo Publishing has sold Hebrew translation rights to Inland (Gerald...

The Way of Dog (Zana Fraillon, UQP) 

Tuesday, 29 March 2022
The Way of Dog is the latest work from internationally acclaimed author Zana Fraillon. A beautifully written verse novel told through an animal voice, this is an ambitious and absorbing...

Abomination (Ashley Goldberg, Vintage)  

Tuesday, 29 March 2022
Best friends Ezra and Yonatan are students at an ultra-Orthodox Melbourne Jewish school when a teacher is accused of sexual molestation and is quickly squirreled away to Israel, beyond the...

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Monday, 28 March 2022
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Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Sales Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has sold simplified Chinese rights to The Eczema Detox: The low-chemical diet for eliminating skin inflammation (Karen Fischer) and Your Anxiety Beast and You: A compassionate...

Homesickness (Janine Mikosza, Ultimo Press)  

Tuesday, 22 March 2022
‘I can’t escape myself or my past. There’s no way out,’ a character named Janine (‘Jin’) muses to an unknown interviewer near the beginning of artist and writer Janine Mikosza’s...

Sunbathing (Isobel Beech, A&U)  

Tuesday, 22 March 2022
After her father dies of suicide, the unnamed narrator of Sunbathing travels from her hometown of Melbourne to the Italian countryside. There, she stays with friends Fabrizio and Giulia in...

All the Little Tricky Things (Karys McEwen, Text)  

Tuesday, 22 March 2022
This debut middle-grade novel is a gentle and empathetic story about navigating the period between primary and high school, as well as the complex ways in which adolescent female friendships...

Dirt Town (Hayley Scrivenor, Macmillan)  

Tuesday, 22 March 2022
Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor is a complex and multi-layered whodunnit, peppered with red-herrings and shocking revelations. In the rural New South Wales town of Durton, a young girl, Esther,...

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Monday, 21 March 2022
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Rights round-up 

Thursday, 17 March 2022
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold German translation rights to The Truth About Her (Jacqueline Maley) to HarperCollins Germany GmbH, and English rights to The Fossil Hunter (Tea Cooper, HQ Fiction)...

The Callers (Kiah Thomas, HarperCollins)  

Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Publishing simultaneously in Australia and the US, The Callers—Kiah Thomas’s first foray into middle-grade fiction—is a thoughtful, nuanced fantasy adventure in which two young people fight back against a colonising...

Daisy & Woolf (Michelle Cahill, Hachette)  

Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Michelle Cahill’s debut novel tells the story of a struggling writer, Mina, as she expands upon the often disregarded character Daisy Simmons from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway. Daisy & Woolf...

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Tuesday, 15 March 2022
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