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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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Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 5 October 2022
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Ukrainian rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to The Old Lion Publishing House.  Giramondo Publishing has sold North American rights to...

Sydney: A biography (Louis Nowra, NewSouth) 

Tuesday, 4 October 2022
Melbourne-born Louis Nowra moved to Sydney as an adult and has never lost his passion for his adopted home. Whether he’s describing the city’s mercurial weather, its elegant convict-designed colonial...

An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb (Louise Wolhuter, Ultimo) 

Tuesday, 4 October 2022
‘Twisty mystery’ is the delightfully accurate descriptor on the AI sheet for this character-based drama. Yet before its mysterious elements begin unspooling, the characters and setting are firmly established, endearing...

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Monday, 3 October 2022
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The Teal Revolution (Margot Saville, Hardie Grant) 

Tuesday, 27 September 2022
Australia's 2022 federal election brought a major upset: six independent female candidates—colloquially known as ‘the teals’ for the signature colour they adopted (a blend of green and Liberal blue)—catapulted into...

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Monday, 26 September 2022
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Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 21 September 2022
Sales Fiction Sally Bird at Calidris Literacy Agency has sold world rights to Without Question (Evelyn Cronk, 2023) to US publisher Level Best Books (see news). Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold...

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Monday, 19 September 2022
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EPAA, QLA, Age Book of the Year winners, Luff joins SWF 

Wednesday, 14 September 2022
The winners of this year’s Educational Publishing Awards and Queensland Literary Awards have been announced; Miles Allinson and Bernadette Brenann won the Age Book of the Year award in fiction...

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Monday, 12 September 2022
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Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Sales  Fiction Black Inc. has sold Russian rights to Factory 19 (Dennis Glover) to MTS Library. Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has sold French world rights to Your Anxiety Beast and You:...

Waiting for the Storks (Katrina Nannestad, ABC Books) 

Tuesday, 6 September 2022
Waiting for the Storks is the latest historical fiction title from Katrina Nannestad, transporting the reader to the Second World War and the time of Himmler’s Lebensborn Program, in which...

Tell Me Again (Amy Thunig, UQP) 

Tuesday, 6 September 2022
Amy Thunig is an academic and social commentator on shows such as ABC’s The Drum. She also grew up in poverty, the child of parents battling drug addictions who provided...