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Wednesday, 17 January 2018
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold Bulgarian rights to The Eye of the Sheep (Sofie Laguna) to Ednorog Publishers. Nonfiction—Allen & Unwin has sold German and Czech rights to Buddhism...

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Wednesday, 10 January 2018
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold Turkish rights to The Mummy Bloggers (Holly Wainwright) to Hep Kitap. Nonfiction—Allen & Unwin has sold German and US English-language rights to Slow (Brooke...

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Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold German rights to The Fighting Season (Bram Connolly) to Festa Verlag. Brio has acquired world rights to The Drovers Wives (Ryan O’Neill) and world rights...

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Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Sales Nonfiction—Allen & Unwin has sold world English-language (ex-ANZ) rights to Fight Like a Girl (Clementine Ford) to OneWorld Publications; Korean rights to The Mekong: Second Edition (Milton Osborne) to...

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Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Sales: Fiction—Black Inc. has sold UK rights to Their Brilliant Careers (Ryan O’Neill) to Eye Books. (See news.) Hachette has sold US and Canadian rights to Terra Nullius (Claire G Coleman) to Small...

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Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Sales Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold ANZ audio rights to How to Stop Feeling Like Sh*t: 14 Habits that Are Holding You Back from Happiness (Andrea Owen) to Bolinda Audio. Children’s—A&U...

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Wednesday, 15 November 2017
Sales Children’s—Berbay Publishing has sold world Spanish rights to What’s Your Story (Rose Giannone, illus by Bern Emmerichs) to Ekaré Europa S.L. Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management has sold...

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Thursday, 9 November 2017
Sales Fiction—UWA Publishing has sold rights to Extinctions (Josephine Wilson) in the following territories: UK and Commonwealth (ex Canada and ANZ) to Serpent’s Tail; and US and Canadian to Tin...

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Wednesday, 1 November 2017
Sales Fiction—Hachette has sold Czech rights to The Secret Recipe for Second Chances (J D Barrett). HarperCollins has sold German rights to The Pretty Delicious Café (Danielle Hawkins) to Bastei Lubbe...

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Wednesday, 25 October 2017
Sales Fiction—Penguin Random House has sold Lithuanian-language rights to The Tea Gardens and The Lavender Keeper (both Fiona McIntosh). Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold Portuguese rights to Destination Simple: Everyday Rituals...

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Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Sales Fiction—Black Inc. has sold world audio rights to The Unexpected Education of Emily Dean (Mira Robertson) to Wavesound. Brow Books has sold world rights to The Town (Shaun Prescott) to Faber. (See...

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Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Sales Fiction—Black Inc. has sold world audio rights to The Unexpected Education of Emily Dean (Mira Robertson) to Wavesound. Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold world audio rights to Buddhism for the...

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Wednesday, 4 October 2017
Sales Fiction—Affirm has sold rights to The Nowhere Child (Christian White) in the following territories via Linda Kaplan at Kaplan/DeFiore: UK rights to HarperCollins, US rights to St Martin’s Press,...

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Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold German rights to Tears of the Maasai and Roar of the Lion (both Frank Coates) to Weltbild Retail GmbH & Co. KG; and German rights to...

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Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold simplified Chinese character rights to The Ancestor Game (Alex Miller) to QingDao. Penguin Random House Australia has sold North American rights to Year of...

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Wednesday, 13 September 2017
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold US rights to The Dark Lake and City of Stars (both Sarah Bailey) to Grand Central Publishing; and rights to The Dark Lake (Sarah Bailey) in the...

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Wednesday, 6 September 2017
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold the following rights to The Museum of Modern Love (Heather Rose): Hebrew rights to Modan Publishing House; Korean rights to Hankyoreh; and Greek rights...

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Wednesday, 30 August 2017
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold Czech rights to the ‘Phryne Fisher’ books Cocaine Blues and Flying Too High (Kerry Greenwood) to Charleston Media. Text has sold ANZ audio rights...

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Wednesday, 23 August 2017
Sales Fiction—Curtis Brown Australia has sold rights to Hangman (Jack Heath) into the following territories: North American rights to HarperCollins US, German rights to Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, French rights to...

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Wednesday, 16 August 2017
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold German-language rights to Girl in Between (Anna Daniels) to Heyne Verlag. Hachette has sold UK & Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ and Canada) to Nineteen...

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Wednesday, 9 August 2017
Sales Fiction—Allen & Unwin has sold simplified Chinese rights to The Museum of Modern Love (Heather Rose) to Lijiang Publishing Limited; and world Spanish rights to The Lightkeeper’s Wife (Karen...

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Wednesday, 2 August 2017
Sales Fiction—Text has sold German rights to Two Steps Forward (Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist) to Fischer, Dutch rights to Luitingh-Sijthoff, Canadian rights to HarperCollins Canada, UK & Commonwealth (excluding...

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Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Sales Fiction—Jane Novak Literary Agency has sold Spanish-language rights to Voss (Patrick White) to Impedimenta; and German-language rights to The Twyborn Affair, The Eye of the Storm, A Fringe of...

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Wednesday, 19 July 2017
Sales Fiction—Alex Adsett Publishing Services has sold the screen option to ‘The Territory’ trilogy (Justin Woolley) to Dana-Lee Mierowsky Bennett (see news). Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold Portuguese translation rights in...

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Wednesday, 12 July 2017
Sales Fiction—Sandy Wagner Creative Agents has sold world rights to Bohemia Beach (Justine Ettler) to Transit Lounge, to be published in August 2018. Jane Novak Literary Agency has sold world...

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Wednesday, 5 July 2017
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold Turkish rights to The Gene Thieves (Maria Quinn) to Pegasus Yayinevi. Penguin Random House has sold North American rights and UK and Commonwealth (ex ANZ) rights...

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Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Sales Fiction—Fremantle Press has sold US and UK English-language rights to The Hope Fault (Tracy Farr) to Gallic Books imprint Aardvark Bureau. Giramondo has sold US rights to Border Districts and...

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Wednesday, 21 June 2017
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold world Spanish rights to Kingpin (Lili St German) to Ediciones B Mexico SA de CV. Hachette has sold rights to Stars Across the Ocean (Kimberley Freeman)...

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Wednesday, 31 May 2017
Sales Fiction—Giramondo has sold US rights to Border Districts and Stream System (Gerald Murnane) to Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Text has sold Turkish rights to Fear (Dirk Kurbjuweit) to Hep...

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Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Sales Fiction—HarperCollins has sold Spanish rights in Latin America to Silver Wattle (Belinda Alexandra) to Ediciones B Mexico SA de CV. Nonfiction—Black Inc. has sold UK and Commonwealth audio rights...