Rights round-up
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Brazilian rights to The Shortest History of the World (David Baker) to Universo dos Livros. Fremantle Press has sold traditional Chinese translation rights to...
Koko and the Coconut (Turia Pitt & Celestine Vaite, illus by Emilie Tavaearii, Puffin)
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
Koko and the Coconut is the first picture book by author and humanitarian Turia Pitt, written in collaboration with her mum Celestine Vaite. While the story is simple—a crab sheds...
Ractliffe to leave PRH, Begbie wins Richell Prize, PMLA shortlists
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
Penguin Random House Australia has announced publishing director Justin Ractliffe will be leaving the company following a review of its local adult publishing division. In awards news, Susannah Begbie has...
You Talk, We Die (Judy Ryan, Scribe)
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
Safe injecting rooms have been a polarising issue in Victoria for decades. Years of debate, government inquiries, coroner’s reports, media conjecture and scare campaigns have plagued any productive conversation. But...
Brain is (Not) Always Right (Scott Stuart, Scholastic)
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
Scott Stuart may have come to creating books for children in an unconventional way, but the social media storm surrounding his support for his child to be everything they could...
Cloud Land (Penny van Oosterzee, A&U)
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
In the gripping and extensively researched Cloud Land, Penny van Oosterzee imagines what a small region of Queensland’s Atherton Tablelands has witnessed over both geological time and since white settlement....
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Monday, 7 November 2022
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The Exclusion Zone (Shastra Deo, UQP)
Wednesday, 2 November 2022
‘You are searching for something,’ begins The Exclusion Zone. It's a provocation that forms the manifesto for the enthralling and ingenious second poetry collection from Shastra Deo following her ALS...
Readings Prizes winners, Fuge wins UNSW Press Bragg Prize
Wednesday, 2 November 2022
In this week’s award news, the three winners of the 2022 Readings Prizes have been announced; Lauren Fuge has won this year’s UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing; Emily...
How to Kill a Client (Joanna Jenkins, A&U)
Tuesday, 1 November 2022
Gavin Jones is the slimiest, most unpleasant client at big law firm Howard Greene—and that’s with some stiff competition. When this misogynistic, manipulative man dies suddenly it’s not so much...
The Cockatoo Wars (Helen Milroy, Magabala)
Tuesday, 1 November 2022
The Cockatoo Wars is the latest picture book in Helen Milroy’s vibrant Tales from the Bush Mob series. Featuring a cast of Australian animals including Dingo, Willy Wagtail, Platypus and Wombat, and drawing...
Timeless (Kelly Canby, Fremantle Press)
Tuesday, 1 November 2022
A topical theme in these social media-obsessed days, Timeless tells the tale of Emit, a young boy whose parents are always too preoccupied to pay attention to him. Tired of...
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Monday, 31 October 2022
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Who Cares? Life on welfare in Australia (Eve Vincent, MUP)
Tuesday, 25 October 2022
What is it like to live on welfare in Australia today? In Who Cares? researcher Eve Vincent endeavours to answer this question, with a special focus on the experiences of...
Compulsion (Kate Scott, Hamish Hamilton)
Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Lucy is a music journalist with a penchant for 80s party dresses, long, languorous walks, and throwing decadent dinner parties for her friends. Robin is the dark-eyed, softly spoken man...
Rights round-up
Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Fiction Jacinta di Mase Management has sold world Korean-language rights to Every Version of You (Grace Chan, Affirm) to Korean Studies Information Co. Ltd. (KSI), via Sujin Lena Park from...
A Man and His Pride (Luke Rutledge, Michael Joseph)
Tuesday, 25 October 2022
In Luke Rutledge’s A Man and His Pride, 26-year-old Sean Preston navigates the realities of being in his 20s—work, relationships, sexuality, mental health—against the backdrop of Australia’s 2017 same-sex marriage...
MWF moves to May, Historical Novel Prize winners, Tasmanian Literary Awards longlists
Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Melbourne Writers Festival announced it will be moving from September to May next year; Tom Keneally and Katrina Nannestad won the 2022 Historical Novel Prize in the adult and CYA...
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Monday, 24 October 2022
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Sales Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has sold Polish rights to Mindfulness for Life: The updated guide to today’s world (Craig Hassed & Stephen McKenzie). Major Street Publishing has sold simplified Chinese...
Ultimo to establish imprint in UK, Fair Work approves Readings EBA, FNPOC Count reports ‘severe under representation’
Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Hardie Grant and Ultimo Press have announced managing director James Kellow will set up the imprint in the UK next year; the Fair Work Commission has approved the enterprise bargaining...
Headland (John Byrnes, A&U)
Wednesday, 19 October 2022
It’s a well-worn storyline for Australian crime fiction: a detective arrives in a small town only to discover that danger lurks beneath quaint country manners; the detective is usually running...
The Last Love Note (Emma Grey, Michael Joseph)
Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Recently widowed, Kate Whittaker is trying her hardest to navigate the grief of losing her husband, Cam, while also being a single mother to their young son. That’s not to...
The Matchmaker (Saman Shad, Viking)
Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Playing cupid for the Sydney Pakistani community is Saima Khan in The Matchmaker. Pairing lovers is second nature for Saima until the handsome, young white-collar Kal (Khalid) Ali unwittingly saunters...
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Monday, 17 October 2022
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Rights round-up
Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold exclusive Portuguese language rights for Brazil and non-exclusive world rights (excluding Portugal, Angola and Mozambique) to The Nowhere Child and The Wife and the...
SPN BOTY shortlist, Anatolitis joins Meanjin, Ernaux wins Nobel Prize
Wednesday, 12 October 2022
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the shortlist for its Book of the Year Award, along with the program for its 2022 Independent Publishing Conference, where the Book of...
Why Does it Still Hurt? (Paul Biegler, Scribe)
Tuesday, 11 October 2022
The way we understand pain evolves, and it is misunderstood even within the medical community. Part physical, part psychological, it is notoriously difficult to study. In Why Does it Still...
Seven Sisters (Katherine Kovacic, HarperCollins)
Tuesday, 11 October 2022
Katherine Kovacic’s latest novel is an intense, page-turning psychological thriller that explores the depravity of domestic violence, the failings of the justice system and the lengths families will go in...
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Monday, 10 October 2022
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