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The Thinning (Inga Simpson, Hachette) 

Tuesday, 24 September 2024
In Inga Simpson’s The Thinning, Fin has grown up in a world long past its tipping point. Daughter to an astronomer father and an astrophotographer mother, Fin knows everything about...

Extreme Animal Facts (Jennifer Cossins, Lothian) 

Tuesday, 24 September 2024
Animal books are big business as toddlers to tweens revel in discovering quirky titbits about earth’s creatures. Standing out in a saturated book field is no easy task, but CBCA...

Leave the Girls Behind (Jacqueline Bublitz, A&U) 

Tuesday, 24 September 2024
Ruth-Ann Baker, affectionately known as ‘Ruthie’ to those around her, never takes the same route home, secures her apartment with three internal chain locks and can recite murder victim statistics...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 18 September 2024
Sales Nonfiction Scribe has sold Indonesian rights to Life Skills for a Broken World (Ahona Guha) to Bhuana Ilmu Populer; and Greek rights to 12 Rules for Strife (Jeff Sparrow...

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Wednesday, 18 September 2024
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Down the Rabbit Hole (Shaeden Berry, Echo) 

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
In Shaeden Berry’s mystery debut, Down the Rabbit Hole, the lives of three women unravel in the aftermath of a tragedy. In 2015, Alice Montgomery goes missing. Seven years later,...

Vegan Italian Food (Shannon Martinez, Hardie Grant) 

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Prolific vegan chef and restauranteur Shannon Martinez’s fourth cookbook, Vegan Italian Food, is anything but conventional, but she promises she’s not out to shock your nonna. Martinez is a Spanish Australian...

Molly (Rosalie Ham, Macmillan) 

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Molly is a riveting prequel to The Dressmaker from much-loved Australian author Rosalie Ham, and can be enjoyed as a standalone novel. Set in the inner-city suburbs of Melbourne in...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency has sold traditional Chinese rights to Treasure & Dirt, The Tilt and The Seven (all Chris Hammer, A&U) in Taiwan; and rights to Green Dot (Madeleine Gray,...

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Wednesday, 11 September 2024
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Theory & Practice (Michelle de Kretser, Text) 

Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Theory & Practice is a quietly experimental new novel from two-time Miles Franklin winner Michelle de Kretser (Scary Monsters). Set mainly in St Kilda in 1986, it captures a snapshot...

Off to the Nursery (Alice Oehr, Scribble) 

Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Off to the Nursery is the latest from Alice Oehr, the award-winning creator of Off to the Market and Artichoke to Zucchini. With this new picture book, Oehr has focused on gardening and...

Rights round-up 

Cover of 101 Ways to Find Calm Wednesday, 4 September 2024
Sales Nonfiction Allen & Unwin has sold Thai rights to 101 Ways to Find Calm (Rebekkah Ballagh) to Saengdao Publishing House. Black Inc. has sold traditional Chinese rights to The Shortest...

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Wednesday, 4 September 2024
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Pictures of You (Emma Grey, Penguin) 

Tuesday, 3 September 2024
Emma Grey’s second adult romance, Pictures of You, follows her successful debut, The Last Love Note, and shares similar themes of love, grief and hope, while weaving in mystery and...

A Secret Garden in Paris (Sophie Beaumont, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 3 September 2024
Sophie Beaumont’s latest novel, A Secret Garden in Paris, follows three women whose lives intertwine in Paris. The women are each at a substantial crossroads in their lives: Emma has...