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26 July 2023
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Czech rights to The Shortest History of China (Linda Jaivin) and The Shortest History of India (John Zubrzycki) to Leda in the Czech Republic....
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19 July 2023
Sales Fiction UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding ANZ) to Fanatic Heart (Thomas Keneally, Vintage) have been acquired by Faber associate publisher Louisa Joyner and commissioning editor Libby Marshall from Sam Copeland...
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12 July 2023
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency has sold North American rights to Head & Heart (Kirstin Ferguson); Japanese and Bulgarian rights to Scrublands (Chris Hammer); French language rights to Green Dot...
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28 June 2023
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold UK/Commonwealth rights to Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation by David Baker (Black Inc.) to Old Street to be published under the...
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21 June 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Japanese rights to The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams to Shogakukan Inc. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Portuguese translation rights to The Laughter Effect: How to...
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14 June 2023
Sales Fiction Melanie Ostell has sold world English (ex ANZ) and French rights to Michelle Prak’s debut thriller The Rush (S&S) on behalf of the author. French rights were sold to HarperCollins...
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7 June 2023
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Czech rights to The Shortest History of the World (David Baker) to Dokoran. Children’s/YA Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing has sold German rights to I...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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3 May 2023
Sales Nonfiction Blank Inc. has sold Swedish translation rights and Arabic rights to The Shortest History of the Soviet Union (Sheila Fitzpatrick) to Lind & Co and Jarir Bookstore respectively....
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26 April 2023
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Albanian translation rights to The Shortest History of the Soviet Union (Sheila Fitzpatrick) to the Albanian Institute for International Studies. Children's/YA Affirm Press has...
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19 April 2023
Sales Fiction Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown Australia and Gordon Wise at Curtis Brown Books UK have sold US/UK rights to Eliza Henry-Jones's 2022 novel Salt and Skin (Ultimo) to...
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5 April 2023
Sales Children's/YA Hardie Grant Children's Publishing has sold English Language rights for China to A Human for Kingsley and A Job for Kingsley (Gabriel Evans), Herman Crab (Peter Helliar, illus by Matt Shanks), The Little Things (Penny Harrison,...
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29 March 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Danish rights to The Bookbinder of Jericho (Pip Williams) to Lindhardt & Ringhof, and Hungarian rights to The Bookseller’s Apprentice (Amelia Mellor) to Lira. Nonfiction...
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22 March 2023
Sales Fiction Giramondo has sold North American rights to the forthcoming novel Praiseworthy (Alexis Wright, April) and Wright's Miles Franklin winning novel Carpentaria to New York-based independent press New Directions, and...
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8 March 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Hungarian rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to Alexandra Kiadócsoport, and German rights to The Bookbinder of Jericho (Pip Williams) to...
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22 February 2023
Sales Fiction Puncher & Wattmann has sold German language rights to Bird (Adam Morris) to Edition Nautilus. Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has sold world French rights to The Certainty Myth: how...
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15 February 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Lithuanian rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words and Polish rights to The Bookbinder of Jericho (both Pip Williams) to Liutai Ne Avys and...
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8 February 2023
Sales Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has sold Czech and Slovakian rights to The Reality Slap: How to survive and thrive when life hits hard (2nd edition) (Russ Harris), and German rights to The...
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25 January 2023
Sales Fiction HarperCollins Australia has sold Korean translation rights to Sorrow and Bliss (Meg Mason, Fourth Estate) to Munhakdongne Publishing Group, and Italian translation rights to The Butterfly Collector (Tea...
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18 January 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold large print rights for North America to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to Thorndike Press. Jacinta di Mase Management, with Sujin Lena...
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11 January 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold the following rights to The Bookbinder of Jericho (Pip Williams, April): North American (Ballantine), UK (Chatto), Slovak (Vydavatelstvo Motyl), Taiwanese (Business Weekly), Finnish (Into...
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7 December 2022
Sales Children’s/YA Scholastic Australia has licensed Slovenian and Arabic rights to The Bad Guys Episode 1, Episode 2: Mission unpluckable and Episode 3: The furball strikes back (Aaron Blabey); and...
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30 November 2022
Sales Fiction Zeitgeist Agency has sold rights to The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding to five territories: France (Fayard), UK (Legend Press), Romania (Humanitas), Finland (Minerva) and Russia (MTS Library). ...
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22 November 2022
Sales Fiction Black Inc. has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to One Hundred Days (Alice Pung) to HarperVia, in a deal made by Black Inc. international director Sophy Williams...
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15 November 2022
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Russian translation rights at auction to The Laughter Effect: How to build joy, resilience and positivity in your life (Ros Ben-Moshe, April 2023) to...
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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...
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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...
