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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,...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

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...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Tuesday, 15 March 2022
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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,...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 28 February 2022
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine. View the edition here.