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Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Sales  Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has sold simplified Chinese rights to Grandparenting Grandchildren (Jane Williams & Tessa Grigg). Children’s/YA Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing has sold Korean rights to From My Head...

Root & Branch (Eda Gunaydin, NewSouth)  

Tuesday, 8 March 2022
Root & Branch is the debut essay collection from Eda Gunaydin, Turkish-Australian scholar and writer of academic and creative nonfiction. It examines with spectacular tenacity and wit the real-world impacts that...

Seven Days (Fleur Ferris, Puffin) 

Tuesday, 8 March 2022
Winner of a Young Australian Best Book Award (YABBA) for her debut YA novel Risk, Fleur Ferris has subsequently built a reputation for dark and compelling YA thrillers. Ferris’s second...

Losing Face (George Haddad, UQP) 

Tuesday, 8 March 2022
Following the success of his 2016 Viva La Novella Prize–winning Populate or Perish, George Haddad’s Losing Face is an expansive work written in a staunch voice. Fusing the diverse experiences...

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Monday, 7 March 2022
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Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 2 March 2022
Sales Nonfiction  NewSouth Publishing has sold Chinese-language rights to Beyond the Hero’s Journey: A screenwriting guide for when you’ve got a different story to tell (Anthony Mullins) to People’s Literature...

Red (Felicity McLean, HarperCollins)   

Tuesday, 1 March 2022
Ruby ‘Red’ McCoy wants people to hear her side of the story. She knows what the police are saying, and she knows what’s been reported in the media—but none of...

How to Spell Catastrophe (Fiona Wood, Pan) 

Tuesday, 1 March 2022
Fiona Wood, three-time winner of the CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers, moves into middle-grade fiction with the funny and charming How to Spell Catastrophe. Nell McPherson is...

Heartland (Jennifer Pinkerton, A&U)  

Tuesday, 1 March 2022
There would be very few among us who, deep in the wilds of the dating tundra, wouldn’t have thought in frustration, I just wish I knew what they’re thinking! Well,...

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Monday, 28 February 2022
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Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 23 February 2022
Sales Fiction Giramondo Publishing has sold Turkish rights to A Million Windows, A History of Books and Border Districts (Gerald Murnane) to Ketebe.  Nonfiction Giramondo Publishing has sold Turkish rights...

Katerina Cruickshanks (Daniel Gray-Barnett, Scribble) 

Wednesday, 23 February 2022
Daniel Gray-Barnett’s playful second book as both author and illustrator tells a cautionary tale about exiling exuberance and individuality. Katerina Cruickshanks’ wild and inventive approach to the world becomes too...

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Monday, 21 February 2022
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Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 16 February 2022
Sales Fiction Giramondo Publishing has sold simplified Chinese language rights to Saudade (Suneeta Peres da Costa) and This Water (Beverley Farmer) to China Workers Publishing House. Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has...

Milo Finds $105: Bored #1 (Matt Stanton, ABC Books)  

Wednesday, 16 February 2022
When you’re young, one of the most exciting moments in your life is finding money. Coins, cool, but actual notes—amazing! Milo, the 11-year-old narrator of Matt Stanton’s new series ‘Bored’,...

The Girls of Lake Evelyn (Averil Kenny, Echo)  

Wednesday, 16 February 2022
Society bride Vivienne has left her groom at the altar, fleeing the most anticipated wedding of 1958. With nowhere else to turn, she finds herself in the small town of...

Where the Light Gets In (Zoë Coyle, Ultimo)  

Wednesday, 16 February 2022
Many stories are woven into one in Zoë Coyle’s anticipated debut novel Where the Light Gets In. Delphi, a free-spirited artist with a poet’s soul, comes from a family broken...

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Monday, 14 February 2022
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