Rights round-up

Sales

Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold Turkish rights to the first two books in the ‘Phryne Fisher’s Murder Mysteries’ series, Cocaine Blues and Flying too High (both Kerry Greenwood); and US rights to The Passage of Love (Alex Miller). Text has sold Hebrew rights and Spanish rights to The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted (Robert Hillman) to Tchelet and Suma Internacional, respectively; Estonian rights to Fear (Dirk Kurbjuweit) to Pegasus; and UK & Commonwealth (ex. ANZ and Canada) rights to Flames (Robbie Arnott) to Atlantic Books.

Nonfiction—Text has sold UK & Commonwealth (ex. ANZ and Canada) rights to The Library (Stuart Kells) to Duckworth Overlook.

Children’s—Allen & Unwin has sold North American English-language rights to Swallow’s Dance (Wendy Orr, July); North American English-language rights to the middle-grade trilogy, ‘Quest for the Sunfish’ (Mardi McConnachie); Italian rights to Tales from Outer Suburbia (Shaun Tan) to Tunuè; and Dutch rights to A Song Only I Can Hear (Barry Jonsberg, July) to Lemniscaat. Scholastic has sold UK rights to Errol (Zanni Louise & Philip Bunting); Serbian rights to The Bad Guys: Episode 1 and The Bad Guys: Episode 2 (Aaron Blabey); Swedish rights to The Bad Guys: Episode 4 (Aaron Blabey); and English-language rights in Asia to The Mysterious World of Cosentino: The Missing Ace and The Mysterious World of Cosentino: Rabbit Rescue (Cosentino & Jack Heath, illus by James Hart). Text has sold Dutch rights to The Extremely Weird Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls and The Incredibly Scary Thing that Happened in Huggabie Falls (both Adam Cece) to Lannoo.

Acquisitions

Nonfiction—Text has acquired ANZ rights to Always Another Country (Sisonke Msimang).

Category: Rights round-up