Rights round-up

Sales

Fiction

Fremantle Press has sold German rights to Marlborough Man (Alan Carter) to Suhrkamp via Natasha Solomun at the Rights Hive, Clive Newman at the Newman Agency and Haas & Herbach.

Scribe has sold world audio rights to Berlin Syndrome and Gravity Well (both Melanie Joosten) to Audible; and UK and Commonwealth audio rights to The Dictionary of Animal Languages (Heidi Sopinka) to W F Howes.

Transit Lounge has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to From the Wreck (Jane Rawson) to Picador UK. (See news.)

Penguin Random House has sold Thai-language rights to Holding the Man (Timothy Conigrave).

Nonfiction

Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management has sold world rights to The Accidental Tour Guide (Mary Moody) to Fiona Henderson at Simon & Schuster Australia.

Scribe has sold Czech rights to The Lost Boys (Gina Perry) to Triton; simplified Chinese character rights to Why Aren’t We Dead Yet? (Idan Ben-Barak) to Chongqing University Press; Spanish rights to A Perfidious Distortion of History (Jurgen Tampke) to Ediciones Palabra; English-language rights in India to Digital vs Human (Richard Watson) to Manjul Publishing House; English-language rights in India to Aware (Daniel Siegel) to Jaico Publishing; and UK and Commonwealth audio rights to The Digital Ape: How to Live (in Peace) with Smart Machines (Nigel Shadbolt & Roger Hampson) to Audible.

Penguin Random House has sold UK rights to Rather His Own Man (Geoffrey Robertson); Hungarian-language rights to Dogs with Jobs (Laura Greaves); and Polish-language rights to It Must Be My Hormones (Marion Gluck & Vicki Edgson).

Children’s

Era Publications has sold Jordanian digital rights to 200 titles on its multimedia ‘Read-along’ list.

Penguin Random House has sold Turkish-language rights to How Big Is Too Small (Jane Godwin, illus by Andrew Joyner); Turkish-language rights to Blast Off! (Shelly Unwin, illus by Ben Wood); simplified Chinese character rights to A Forest (Marc Martin); Czech-language rights to I Can Jump Puddles (Alan Marshall); and rights to Brotherband 7: The Caldera (John Flanagan) in Brazil, Denmark and Turkey.

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Category: Rights round-up