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Rights round-up 

Thursday, 21 April 2022
Sales Fiction Black Inc. has sold Russian translation rights to The Last Man in Europe (Dennis Glover) and Rose’s Vintage (Kayte Nunn) to MTS Library. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold...

The Eulogy (Jackie Bailey, Hardie Grant)  

Wednesday, 20 April 2022
The Eulogy by Jackie Bailey is at once sprawling and intimate: it’s a novel of race, disability, trauma, poverty, abuse and maternal rage that takes place over the course of...

Hip Hop & Hymns (Mawunyo Gbogbo, Penguin)  

Cover of Hip Hop and Hymns Wednesday, 20 April 2022
Hip Hop & Hymns is a beautiful and heart-wrenching memoir by Mawunyo Gbogbo, music and pop culture reporter for the ABC. Gbogbo begins her story in Ghana, where her parents...

What We All Saw (Mike Lucas, Puffin)  

Wednesday, 20 April 2022
In a small English country town in the 1970s, four friends make their way to the local quarry, a place where stories of witches and curses are born. Hag’s Drop,...

Publishers Weekly’s 150th anniversary issue 

Wednesday, 20 April 2022
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Tuesday, 19 April 2022
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Horse (Geraldine Brooks, Hachette)  

Tuesday, 12 April 2022
Four decades after covering horse racing as a cadet reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald, award-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks has returned to the track. Her latest book is based on...

A Feather on a Wing (Maria Speyer, UQP)  

Tuesday, 12 April 2022
The darkness of night is a common fear for many children trying to get to sleep after lights-out. The dark can make you feel alone and separated from everyone, even...

When Only One (Meg Gatland-Veness, Pantera)  

Tuesday, 12 April 2022
Everything changes when Sam’s one-time best friend Emily appears outside his window for the first time in five years. He knows why she’s back and it isn’t good. The story...

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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...