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The Belburd (Nardi Simpson, Hachette) 

Tuesday, 20 August 2024
Written with the same lyrical prowess and evocative tone as her award-winning debut, Song of the Crocodile, Yuwaalaraay storyteller Nardi Simpson’s second novel, The Belburd, is a powerful ode to...

Prize Catch (Alan Carter, Fremantle) 

Tuesday, 20 August 2024
Alan Carter’s latest crime novel, Prize Catch, is a page-turning thrill ride set on Australia’s Emerald Isle. With the action taking place in Hobart and its surrounds, and brimming with...

Rights round-up 

Photograph of Johannes Egberts Wednesday, 14 August 2024
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Serbian rights to The Shortest History of Economics (Andrew Leigh) and The Shortest History of the World (David Baker) to Laguna, via the Anna Jarota...

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Wednesday, 14 August 2024
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A Song to Drown Rivers (Ann Liang, Macmillan) 

Tuesday, 13 August 2024
A Song to Drown Rivers is a bold departure from Ann Liang’s critically acclaimed YA rom-com novels (This Time It’s Real, I Hope This Doesn’t Find You, If You Could...

Double Happiness (Rochelle Siemienowicz, MidnightSun) 

Tuesday, 13 August 2024
In Double Happiness, journalist and film critic Rochelle Siemienowicz explores the intricacies, challenges and taboos surrounding polyamory and ethical non-monogamy (ENM). Set in Melbourne between 2014 and the Covid lockdown...

Twenty-Two Impressions (Jessica Friedmann, Scribe) 

Tuesday, 13 August 2024
For years, Jessica Friedmann (Things That Helped) circled the tarot, feeling a combination of mild embarrassment, curiosity and intellectual bewilderment when a pack was inevitably drawn at the end of...

No One Will Know (Rose Carlyle, Text) 

Tuesday, 13 August 2024
Pregnant, homeless, and alone, 24-year-old Eve Sylvester is faced with a desperate future when a meeting at her dead fiancé’s gravesite offers a chance too glorious to refuse: nannying for...

Rights round up 

Wednesday, 7 August 2024
Sales Nonfiction Allen & Unwin has sold Thai rights to Good with Money (Emma Edwards) to B2S and Chinese simplified rights to the same title to China Machine Press. Children’s/YA Scholastic...

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Wednesday, 7 August 2024
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Dusk (Robbie Arnott, Picador) 

The cover of Robbie Arnott's novel Dusk Tuesday, 6 August 2024
In his fourth novel, Dusk, Robbie Arnott returns to familiar terrain. ‘Dusk’ is the name the highland graziers have given to a puma who has begun to ‘take’ shepherds and...

The Ledge (Christian White, Affirm) 

Tuesday, 6 August 2024
When reading author and screenwriter Christian White’s fourth novel, The Ledge, it’s worth remembering the adage: ‘When you assume, you make an ass of u and me.’ As a seasoned...

Matia (Emily Tsokos Purtill, UWA Publishing) 

Tuesday, 6 August 2024
Emily Tsokos Purtill’s debut novel, Matia, is a generational story that follows the lives of four Greek women in Australia over 125 years. Sia emigrated from Greece to Perth in...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold German language rights to No Hard Feelings (Genevieve Novak) to Bastei Lübbe. Zeitgeist Literary has sold rights to A Language of Limbs (Dylin Hardcastle, Picador), including Turkish rights...

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Wednesday, 31 July 2024
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Karkalla at Home (Mindy Woods, Murdoch) 

Tuesday, 30 July 2024
Karkalla at Home: Native foods & everyday recipes for connecting to Country by Mindy Woods is a remarkable cookbook showcasing contemporary recipes with native Australian ingredients. The book ‘extends an...

Townsend of the Ranges (Peter Crowley, NLA) 

Tuesday, 30 July 2024
In Townsend of the Ranges, Peter Crowley pieces together from archival materials the biography of Thomas Scott Townsend (1812–1869), a surveyor previously forgotten by history. With the voice of a...

 

 

 

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