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Rights round-up

Sales

Fiction

Brow Books has sold UK and Commonwealth rights to Apple & Knife (Intan Paramaditha) to Harvill Secker. (See news.)

Text has sold rights to the The Plotters (Un-su Kim) in the following territories: US and Canadian rights to Doubleday US and Random House Canada, and UK rights to Fourth Estate. (See news.)

Nonfiction

Allen & Unwin has sold French rights to Woman in the Wilderness (Miriam Lancewood); and simplified Chinese rights to Dimensions of Adult Learning (Griff Foley).

Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management has sold world rights to the provisionally Titled The Dish at Honeysuckle Creek: The Story of Tom Reid and Neil Armstrong’s First Steps on the Moon (Andrew Tink) to NewSouth Books.

Penguin Random House has sold Russian- and Czech-language rights to Unbreakable (Jelena Dokic & Jess Halloran); German-language rights to Eat (Chelsea Winter); Persian-language rights to Legs on Everest (Mark Inglis); and Russian-language rights to The Youngs: The Brothers Who Built AC/DC (Jesse Fink).

Children’s

Black Inc. has sold UK and Japanese rights to How to Win a Nobel Prize (Barry Marshall & Lorna Hendry) to Oneworld Publications and Wave Publishers, respectively.

Penguin Random House has sold North American rights and Japanese-language rights to No One Likes a Fart (Zoe Foster Blake, illus by Adam Nickle); Turkish-language rights to Go Go and the Silver Shoes (Jane Godwin, illus by Anna Walker) and Mr Huff (Anna Walker); and French rights to Alexander’s Outing (Pamela Allen).

Scholastic has sold US rights to Pig the Fibber (Aaron Blabey); Canadian rights to Don’t Call Me Bear! (Aaron Blabey); and simplified Chinese rights to The Bad Guys Episode Five (Aaron Blabey).

Acquisitions

Children’s

Penguin Random House has acquired world rights to Limelight (Solli Raphael, see news).

Scholastic has acquired ANZ rights to the ‘Girltopia’ trilogy (Hilary Rogers, see news).

 

Category: Rights round-up