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UQP acquires Dan Dixon debut

Thursday, 2 July 2026    Books+Publishing
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University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to The Department, the debut novel by writer and academic Dan Dixon. According to the publisher, The Department follows a narrator who, after witnessing his father’s death in a palliative care ward, becomes trapped at an academic conference in a flooding...

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