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Rights round-up

Sales

Fiction

Allen & Unwin has sold German rights to The Dark Lake sequel Into the Night (Sarah Bailey); and Romanian rights to The Lightkeeper’s Wife (Karen Viggers).

Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management has sold world rights to The Lost Girls (Jennifer Spence) to Fiona Henderson at Simon & Schuster.

Simon & Schuster Australia has sold rights to The Book Ninja (Ali Berg & Michelle Kalus) in the following territories: German rights to Blanvalet in a six-way auction; UK rights to Simon & Schuster UK; Italian rights to Garzanti Linguistica; Slovak and Czech rights to Fortuna Libri; and Spanish rights to Ediciones Urano. (See news.)

Nonfiction

Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management has sold world rights to Christopher Wilder: Predator and Serial Killer (Duncan McNab).

Penguin Random House has sold French-language rights to Everyday Thermo Cooking (Alyce Alexandra); German-language rights to The Art of Simple (Eleanor Ozich); Portuguese-language rights to Happy Go Paleo (Irena Macri); and simplified Chinese language rights to The Bush (Don Watson).

Children’s

Black Inc. has sold Polish rights to How to Win a Nobel Prize (Barry Marshall & Lorna Hendry) to Wydawnictwo Kobiece, following a three-house auction.

Hardie Grant Egmont has sold North American rights to Amelia Westlake (Erin Gough) to Deirdre Jones at Little, Brown/Poppy.

Penguin Random House has sold Czech-language rights to Lots (Marc Martin); Slovenian-language rights to Maybe (Morris Gleitzman); and simplified Chinese language rights to I Am Jellyfish (Ruth Paul) and Kingdom of the Lost: Ice Age (Isobelle Carmody).

 

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