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Transit Lounge acquires Cameron literary thriller 

Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to The Rewilding, the second novel by Donna M Cameron, via Fiona Johnson at Beyond Words Literary Agency. ‘The Rewilding captures the essence of...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Sales  Fiction Affirm Press has sold Lithuanian rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words and Polish rights to The Bookbinder of Jericho (both Pip Williams) to Liutai Ne Avys and...

Aphrodite’s Breath (Susan Johnson, A&U) 

Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Author Susan Johnson, now in her early 60s, is drawn back to a place she travelled to as a young woman: Kythera, the most southern of the Ionian islands and...

Selfie (Allayne L Webster, Text) 

Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Tully Sinclair is in eighth grade. She loves art, has a long-time best friend Kira and some complicated family issues to deal with. Dene Walker is a social media influencer...

Crushing (Genevieve Novak, HarperCollins) 

Tuesday, 14 February 2023
After being unceremoniously dumped by her boyfriend of five years, Marnie finds herself alone for the first time in her adult life. As a self-professed serial girlfriend, the 28-year-old Melburnian...

PRH signs Johns in two-book deal 

Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to the novel The Other Bridget Jones by Rachael Johns in a two-book deal, agented by Helen Breitwieser of Cornerstone Literary....

Scribe acquires Smaill’s ‘Bird Life’ 

Monday, 13 February 2023
In the UK, Scribe has acquired world English rights to the novel Bird Life by New Zealand author Anna Smaill via Will Francis at Janklow and Nesbit, reports BookBrunch. Smaill...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 13 February 2023
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine. View the edition here.

Ultimo acquires ‘The Paris Cooking School’ 

Friday, 10 February 2023
Ultimo Press has acquired world English-language rights to a novel from Sophie Masson, writing as Sophie Beaumont, in a deal brokered by Margaret Connolly of Margaret Connolly & Associates. The...

Waterstones Children’s Book Prize shortlists announced

Friday, 10 February 2023
In the UK, the shortlists for the 2023 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Illustrated books The Fairy Garden (Georgia Buckthorn, illus...

UQP acquires new O’Keeffe novel 

Friday, 10 February 2023
UQP has acquired world rights to The Sitter, a new novel by Angela O’Keeffe, from Shaw Literary. Described by the publisher as ‘startlingly accomplished and multilayered’, The Sitter is about...

Gigorou (Sasha Kutabah Sarago, Pantera) 

Thursday, 9 February 2023
As women our identity and self-worth is often defined and limited by our understanding of beauty. Gigorou is a reverent and awe-inspiring foray into memoir. It is the personal genre...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Sales Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has sold Czech and Slovakian rights to The Reality Slap: How to survive and thrive when life hits hard (2nd edition) (Russ Harris), and German rights to The...

Thirst for Salt (Madelaine Lucas, A&U) 

Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Madelaine Lucas’s debut novel opens with the unnamed female narrator, now 37 years old, recalling a past lover. Twenty-four years old at the time and holidaying with her mother, the...

The Half Brother (Christine Keighery, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Psychological thriller The Half Brother is the first adult novel by Christine Keighery, a prolific author of children’s and young adult books. The novel opens with alternating chapters from the...

Doris Brett recommends 

Tuesday, 7 February 2023
I have been re-reading Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (Penguin). I first read, and loved it, as a teenager. It is a sharply written, laugh-out-loud-on-the-tram novel, satirising the doom-and-gloom,...

Doris Brett on ‘Philomella and the Impossible Forest’

Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Philomella and the Impossible Forest is Doris Brett's first fiction book for children. A 'playful take on the classic quest story' the middle-grade novel follows Philomella who stumbles upon a forest...

Bowerbird Blues (Aura Parker, Scholastic) 

Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Bowerbird Blues follows a feverishly determined bowerbird on a mission to collect not just all the fabulous blue items he can possibly find but also something else he can’t quite...

 

 

 

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