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The Opposite of Success (Eleanor Elliott Thomas, Text)

Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Arianna Huffington’s quote, ‘Failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success’, is the essence of Eleanor Elliott Thomas’s debut novel and likely the source of its title....

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Monday, 14 August 2023
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Davis joins Hardie Grant; Lloyd, Sandiford join UQP; KRR to acquire S&S

Wednesday, 9 August 2023
Hardie Grant has announced the appointment of Simon Davis to the role of food and lifestyle publisher for Hardie Grant Books; UQP has appointed Kate Lloyd as sales and distribution...

Rights round-up

Wednesday, 9 August 2023
Sales Fiction Black Inc. has sold Persian language rights to Children of Tomorrow (J R Burgmann, Upswell) to Ana Pol. Audio/screen A four-part SBS documentary series based on The Idea...

Listen (Duncan Smith & Nicole Godwin, illus Jandamarra Cadd, Wild Dog)

Tuesday, 8 August 2023
From the team that brought us We Are Australians in 2022 comes another stunning picture book about First Nations people and their connection to the land. In simple but direct...

The Modern (Anna Kate Blair, Scribner)

Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Art aficionados and literary enthusiasts will feel at home in The Modern, in which Anna Kate Blair navigates New York City’s modern art institutions. Sophia is a MoMA fellow in NYC, who grapples with her instinct to sentimentalise her...

Bennelong and Phillip: A history unravelled (Kate Fullagar, Scribner)

Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Bennelong and Phillip: A history unravelled is an important book for our current time. In 2023, Australians will vote in the Voice to Parliament referendum to decide whether to recognise Aboriginal...

Finding My Bella Vita (Pia Miranda, Hachette)

Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Pia Miranda’s memoir, Finding My Bella Vita, is like a long phone call with a friend. Based in Melbourne, Miranda is an actor best known for her role as Josie...

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Monday, 7 August 2023
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Rights round-up

Wednesday, 2 August 2023
Sales Children’s/YA Affirm Press has sold North American rights to Pasta! (Felice Arena, illus by Beatrice Cerocchi) to Source Books and Portugese rights to Life Lessons for Little Ones: You...

Johnson and Ryckmans create new agency; Vincent appointed TWC CEO; new diverse children’s book award

Wednesday, 2 August 2023
Lou Johnson and Jeanne Ryckmans have set up a new literary agency; the Wheeler Centre has appointed ABC journalist and producer Erin Vincent as its new CEO, replacing Caro Llewellyn;...

In Times of Bushfires and Billy Buttons (Steven Herrick, Ford St)

Tuesday, 1 August 2023
With his parents in jail for drug dealing, high-school student Ethan goes to live with his Aunt Helen, a supermarket stacker who dreams of the Greek Islands. He gets by...

Summer of Blood (Dave Warner, Fremantle)

Tuesday, 1 August 2023
Ned Kelly award-winning author and musician-songwriter Dave Warner revisits characters from his 1999 novel Big Bad Blood. Set two years after the events of that book, in 1967, Summer of...

Me, Her, Us (Yen-Rong Wong, UQP)

Tuesday, 1 August 2023
Yen-Rong Wong’s Me, Her, Us encapsulates the Asian female body experience in a post-pandemic world. Wong oscillates between belonging and unbelonging in this bold-yet-anxious slice of Asian-Australian diaspora experience. The work is broken...