Rights round-up
Wednesday, 31 May 2023
Sales Fiction Giramondo has sold Dutch rights to The Swan Book (Alexis Wright) to Uitgeverij Orlando and Norwegian rights to Barley Patch (Gerald Murnane) to Samlaget, to be translated by International Booker Prize finalist Jon Fosse....
Tamarra: A story of termites on Gurindji Country (Violet Wadrill, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal & Leah Leaman, Hardie Grant Explore)
Tuesday, 30 May 2023
Tamarra is a nonfiction picture book that explains the relationship between the Gurindji people and termites. With gorgeous illustrations, the text not only provides information about termites—explaining their life cycles...
Timefire (Nean McKenzie, MidnightSun)
Tuesday, 30 May 2023
Nean McKenzie is the author of two previous middle-grade novels. Her latest, Timefire, interweaves a story about bushfires in Australia with supernatural and time-travel elements. Gilbert Black is drawn to...
Cast Mates: Australian Actors in Hollywood and at Home (Sam Twyford-Moore, NewSouth)
Tuesday, 30 May 2023
Sam Twyford-Moore set out to write a cultural history of Australian cinema in Cast Mates: Stories of Australians in film, but covering 127 years of boom and bust was always...
Mistakes and Other Lovers (Amy Lovat, Macmillan)
Tuesday, 30 May 2023
In Amy Lovat’s Mistakes and Other Lovers, El O’Reilly finds herself involved in a circle of Christian friends and their complex, tense social dynamics as she navigates the aftermath of...
One Song (A J Betts, Pan Australia)
Tuesday, 30 May 2023
A J Betts’s latest book One Song is a delightful and emotionally intelligent YA novel. Our protagonist Eva is in Year Twelve and is desperate to win Triple J Unearthed...
Young Rupert: The making of the Murdoch empire (Walter Marsh, Scribe)
Tuesday, 30 May 2023
Rupert Murdoch’s influence is ubiquitous, yet the man himself remains oddly opaque. Contradictions abound. During his university days, he toyed with left-wing politics but soon moved to the right. He...
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Monday, 29 May 2023
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 24 May 2023
Sales Children’s/YA Exisle has sold English rights to the smart pen edition of Where The Heart Is (Irma Gold & Susannah Crispe) to China; English rights to the smart pen edition...
Davis to retire, SMH young novelists, Dank sweeps NSW Prem’s
Wednesday, 24 May 2023
Hardie Grant has announced chief operating officer Andrew Davis will retire at the end of this financial year, the Institute of Professional Editors has announced Kerry Davies as the winner...
Lowbridge (Lucy Campbell, Ultimo)
Tuesday, 23 May 2023
In Lowbridge, Lucy Campbell’s debut crime thriller, the people in the sleepy small town of Lowbridge seem to have moved on with their lives after the tragic events of the...
That Bird Has Arms (Kate Temple & Jol Temple, illus Ronojoy Ghosh & Niharika Hukku, Little Hare)
Tuesday, 23 May 2023
That Bird Has Arms comes from the creative team behind the successful Bin Chicken books and brings the same brightly coloured joy and hilarious avian humour. Writers Kate and Jol...
The House With All The Lights On (Jessica Kirkness, A&U)
Tuesday, 23 May 2023
Jessica Kirkness weaves each page of her memoir The House With All The Lights On with care, offering a deeply personal glimpse into growing up as a hearing child with...
Roseghetto (Kirsty Jagger, UQP)
Tuesday, 23 May 2023
Kirsty Jagger’s debut novel Roseghetto is a raw coming-of-age story set in 1990s suburban Sydney. We follow the protagonist Shayla through childhood and adolescence and hold her hand through sexual...
Get Your Act Together, Doris Kozlowski (Jo Dabrowski, Affirm)
Tuesday, 23 May 2023
Life doesn’t feel easy for Doris Kozlowski. Her family is Polish, and they’re not like almost all the other families nearby. Her babcia makes all kinds of foods that smell...
Blind Spot (Robyn Dennison, Text)
Tuesday, 23 May 2023
Robyn Dennison’s debut novel Blind Spot is a sophisticated, challenging novel that explores themes of personal responsibility alongside a duty of care for others. Dale is a ‘nice’ guy who’s...
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Monday, 22 May 2023
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 17 May 2023
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold Slovenian translation rights to Sorrow and Bliss (Meg Mason, Fourth Estate) to Ucila International Zalozba and North American English rights to The Butterfly Collector (Tea Cooper, HQ...
George Robertson winners, Dunn joins ADS, WA Prem’s shortlists
Wednesday, 17 May 2023
The Australian Publishers Association has announced the winners of the 2023 George Robertson Awards, which recognise long and distinguished service to the publishing industry, Riikka Dunn has been appointed distribution...
Why We Are Here (Briohny Doyle, Vintage)
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
In a life-altering turn of events, BB loses both her father and the love of her life during the global pandemic. When grief and strict lockdown orders push her to...
Lioness (Emily Perkins, Bloomsbury)
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Thirty years ago, Therese married Trevor Thorne, a wealthy businessman twice her age. Now middle-aged, she continues to enjoy a life of privilege, running a successful luxury homewares business and...
Captain Thunderbolt’s Recital (Jane Jolly, illus Liz Duthie, NLA)
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Captain Thunderbolt’s Recital tells the unlikely but true story of Fred Ward, the ‘gentleman bushranger’ known as Captain Thunderbolt in the 1860s. Writer Jane Jolly and illustrator Liz Duthie bring...
The Shape of Dust (Lamisse Hamouda & Hazem Hamouda, Pantera)
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Father-daughter duo Lamisse and Hazem Hamouda’s debut memoir The Shape of Dust is an impactful picture of one ordinary Australian-Egyptian family’s experience as victims of a human rights violation. The...
Picasso and the Greatest Show on Earth (Anna Fienberg, A&U Children’s)
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Anna Fienberg has had a long and illustrious career in children’s writing, with over 40 books and a swag of awards under her belt. Her latest, Picasso and the Greatest...
Audition (Pip Adam, Giramondo)
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Alba, Stanley and Drew are giants, sent out into space for reasons unknown to them, in a spaceship called Audition. As they travel through the universe their bodies continue to...
The Pole & Other Stories (J M Coetzee, Text)
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Aficionados of South African-Australian Nobel and Booker Prize-winning author J M Coetzee will be delighted with his new short fiction collection, The Pole & Other Stories. It explores philosophy and...
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Monday, 15 May 2023
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Thai rights to The Shortest History of China (Linda Jaivin) to Paragraph Publishing House. Thames & Hudson has sold Chinese rights to The Age...
Fagan resigns, MUP to replace Hollier; Winton, Berryman inducted into ABIA Hall of Fame
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Melbourne University Publishing CEO Nathan Hollier has left the publisher, and Allen & Unwin has announced publisher Kelly Fagan has resigned. Author Tim Winton and HarperCollins children's publisher Lisa Berryman...
Barren Grounds (B Michael Radburn, Pantera)
Tuesday, 9 May 2023
Joseph ‘Joe’ Capello, the decorated detective at the centre of B Michael Radburn’s fifth novel, Barren Grounds, is haunted by The Cloakman and The Jeweller, two forces of evil who...
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