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Wednesday, 17 April 2024
Sales Poetry Giramondo has sold Hasib Hourani’s debut poetry book, rock flight (September), about ‘the dispossession and occupation Palestinians are faced with on the ground and across the diaspora’, to New...
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Wednesday, 10 April 2024
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold rights to Tilda Is Visible (Jane Tara) in the following territories: Italian rights to Feltrinelli, German rights to Diogenes, and North American rights to Penguin...
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Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency has sold Light at Lavelle (Paullina Simons) to Poland, Italy and Israel; Crimson Lake, Redemption Point and Gone by Midnight (Candice Fox) to Russia; Red Leaves (Paullina Simons)...
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Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Sales Fiction North American rights to The Heart Is a Star (Megan Rogers, HarperCollins) have been sold in a pre-empt to Central Avenue Publishing by Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency....
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Wednesday, 6 March 2024
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold UK/Commonwealth (ex India, Canada, ANZ) rights to The Shortest History of Music (Andrew Ford) to Old Street; and Ethiopian (Amharic trans) rights to Their...
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Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Sales Fiction Hachette Australia has sold world large print rights to The Girl from London (Olivia Spooner) to Ulverscroft; and ANZ large print rights to Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap...
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Wednesday, 21 February 2024
Sales Fiction Giramondo has sold Italian rights to Alexis Wright's Praiseworthy and Carpentaria to Il Saggiatore, via Casanovas & Lynch. Pan Macmillan has sold simplified Chinese rights to Prima Facie (Suzie Miller) to Staread,...
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Wednesday, 7 February 2024
Sales Fiction Hachette has sold Russian rights to Bird (Courtney Collins) to Azbooka, via the Zeitgeist Agency. HarperCollins has sold Russian rights to The House That Joy Built (Holly Ringland)...
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Wednesday, 31 January 2024
Sales Nonfiction Rockpool Publishing has sold Swedish rights for Seasons of the Witch, Samhain Edition (Juliet Diaz & Lorriane Anderson), to go along with previous French, Spanish and German translation sales....
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Wednesday, 24 January 2024
Sales Nonfiction Rockpool Publishing has sold Spanish translation rights for Resurrection Oracle (Jena Dellagrottaglia); and Bulgarian translation rights for Spellbound (Lucy Cavendish). Children’s/YA Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing has sold seven titles to...
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Wednesday, 17 January 2024
Sales Children’s/YA Hardie Grant Children's Publishing has sold Portuguese rights to You’re Fabulous As You Are (Sophie Beer) to Penguin Random House Portugal. Scholastic has sold Chinese simplified rights to...
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Wednesday, 10 January 2024
Sales Nonfiction Rach Crawford at Wolf Literary Services has sold the following rights to The Intuition Toolbox (Joel Pearson, S&S): UK/Commonwealth (ex ANZ) rights to Welbeck, via Kate Johnson; Korean...
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Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency has sold A Brilliant Life (Rachelle Unreich, Hachette) in the UK on behalf of Curtis Brown Australia; Estonia and German rights to The Wolf Tree (Laura...
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Wednesday, 6 December 2023
Sales Fiction Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management has sold The Housemate (Sarah Bailey, A&U) to French publisher Mera Editions. Penguin Random House (PRH) ANZ has sold Spanish and Catalan...
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Wednesday, 29 November 2023
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency reports that Vincent and Sien (Silvia Kwon) has been licensed in Lithuania and the Czech Republic; Fire with Fire (Candice Fox) has been licensed in Italy...
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Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Sales Fiction Allen & Unwin (A&U) has sold Dutch rights to Body of Lies (Sarah Bailey) to Uitgeverij Marmer, via Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management. Bold Type Agency has sold...
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Wednesday, 15 November 2023
Sales Fiction University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold French rights to The White Girl (Tony Birch) to Synchronique Editions. Nonfiction Affirm has sold Vietnamese rights to The Hope Dealer (Caitlin...
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Wednesday, 8 November 2023
Sales Fiction Penguin Random House has sold Italian translation rights to Kind Of, Sort of, Maybe... But Probably Not (Imbi Neeme) to Editrice Nord in Italy; Czech translation rights for...
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Wednesday, 1 November 2023
Sales Fiction Martin Shaw from Shaw Literary has sold North American rights to Aotearoa New Zealand author Pip Adam's Audition (Giramondo, Te Herenga Waka University Press). The novel is due...
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Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Sales Fiction University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold North American rights to Angela O’Keeffe’s latest novel, The Sitter, to Jim Gauer at Zerogram, in a deal brokered by UQP...
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Wednesday, 11 October 2023
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Korean rights to The Shortest History of China (Linda Jaivin) and The Shortest History of Democracy (John Keane) to Jinsung Books in a two-book...
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Wednesday, 27 September 2023
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Chinese traditional rights to The Shortest History of Economics (Andrew Leigh) and The Shortest History of the World (David Baker) to Azoth Books Co. in Taiwan...
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Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Sales Fiction Jane Novak Literary Agency has sold world Spanish rights to Prima Facie (Suzie Miller, Piacador) to Seix Barral, an imprint of Group Planeta. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold...
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Wednesday, 13 September 2023
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold volume rights to Digging Up Dirt (Pamela Hart, HQ Fiction) to Level Best Books and Portuguese translation rights to The Truth About Her (Jacqueline Maley,...
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Wednesday, 30 August 2023
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold simplified Chinese character rights to The Economy of Algorithms: Rise of the digital minions (Marek Kowalkiewicz, La Trobe University Press) to Hangzhou Blue Lion...
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Wednesday, 23 August 2023
Sales Fiction/poetry Giramondo has sold Spanish language rights to Last Letter to a Reader (Gerald Murnane) to Gris Tormenta for publication in Latin America, and to Minúscula for publication in...
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Wednesday, 16 August 2023
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Vietnamese rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to Bookhunter. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold traditional Chinese rights to Faking It: Artificial intelligence...
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Wednesday, 9 August 2023
Sales Fiction Black Inc. has sold Persian language rights to Children of Tomorrow (J R Burgmann, Upswell) to Ana Pol. Audio/screen A four-part SBS documentary series based on The Idea...
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Wednesday, 2 August 2023
Sales Children’s/YA Affirm Press has sold North American rights to Pasta! (Felice Arena, illus by Beatrice Cerocchi) to Source Books and Portugese rights to Life Lessons for Little Ones: You...
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Wednesday, 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....
