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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...

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...

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...

How to Kill a Client (Joanna Jenkins, A&U) 

the book cover of How to Kill a Client 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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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...

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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...

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...

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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