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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...

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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...

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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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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:...

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Wednesday, 31 August 2022
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold simplified Chinese rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to Jieli Publishing House Co., Ltd. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold traditional Chinese rights...

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Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Sales  Children’s/YA Pantera Press has sold Korean rights to No Way! (Dan Marshall) to EK Book via Hobak Agency. Film/TV Production company CJZ has optioned film and television rights for...

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Wednesday, 17 August 2022
Sales  Fiction  Affirm Press has sold Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian and Turkish rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams), following the book's selection...

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Wednesday, 10 August 2022
Sales Fiction Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary has sold UK and US rights at auction to Grimmish (Michael Winkler, Puncher & Wattmann) on behalf of the publisher, to Peninsula Press...

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Wednesday, 27 July 2022
Sales Children’s/YA Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing has sold Czech rights to We Who Hunt the Hollow (Kate Murray), and Spanish and Catalan rights to School Of Monsters #9–12 (Sally Rippin,...

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Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Sales  Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has sold Polish and Portuguese rights in Brazil to The Happiness Trap (2nd edition) (Russ Harris). Children’s/YA Allen & Unwin Children’s has sold North American rights...

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Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold UK and Commonwealth (ex ANZ, India and Canada) rights to The Shortest History of the World (David Baker) to Scribe, and Russian rights to...

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Wednesday, 6 July 2022
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold simplified Chinese rights to The Shortest History of the World (David Baker) to China Science and Technology Press Co. Children’s/YA Affirm Press has sold...

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Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Sales Fiction HarperCollins Australia has sold Spanish translation rights to The Truth About Her (Jacqueline Maley to HarperCollins Iberica S A, and Turkish translation rights to Sorrow and Bliss (Meg...

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Wednesday, 22 June 2022
Sales Fiction  Black Inc. has sold Russian rights to Angel’s Share (Kayte Nunn, Nero) to MTS Library. Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary has sold US rights to Wall (Jen Craig)...

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Thursday, 16 June 2022
Sales Fiction Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary has sold US rights to Wall (Jen Craig) to Zerogram Press (see news). Children’s/YA Berbay Publishing has sold Spanish-language rights to Can You...

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Wednesday, 8 June 2022
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold simplified Chinese rights to The Big Four: The curious past and perilous future of the global accounting monopoly (Stuart Kells & Ian Gow); Hungarian rights to Koala:...

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Wednesday, 1 June 2022
Sales Children’s/YA Fremantle Press has sold German rights to Littlelight (Kelly Canby) to Carl-Auer Verlag, via Book149 Lit. Agency.    Hardie Grant Children's Publishing has sold Italian rights to Flocked (Chren Byng,...

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Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Sales Children’s/YA Hardie Grant Children's Publishing has sold Spanish and Catalan rights to Naughty Dragons Fire Up! (Natalie Jane Prior, illus by Simon Howe), and Icelandic rights to The Baby Bird, The Best...

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Wednesday, 18 May 2022
Sales Fiction Fremantle Press has sold Turkish language rights to The Last Bookshop (Emma Young) to Yeditepe Yayınları. Nonfiction Pantera Press has sold simplified Chinese rights to Killer Thinking (Tim Duggan) to Cheers,...

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Wednesday, 11 May 2022
Sales Fiction  Affirm Press has sold Romanian rights to The Dictionary of Lost Words (Pip Williams) to Nemira. HarperCollins Australia has sold Italian translation rights to The Truth About Her (Jacqueline Maley)...

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Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold North American rights to The Shortest History of Japan (Lesley Downer) to The Experiment, and Romanian rights to Machines Behaving Badly: The morality of...

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Thursday, 21 April 2022
Sales Fiction Black Inc. has sold Russian translation rights to The Last Man in Europe (Dennis Glover) and Rose’s Vintage (Kayte Nunn) to MTS Library. Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold...

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Wednesday, 6 April 2022
Sales Nonfiction Spinifex Press has sold French translation rights to Towards the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood (ed by Marie Josèphe Devillers & Ana-Luana Stoicea-Deram) to Les Éditions L’échapee. Children’s/YA Berbay...

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Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Sales Fiction Affirm Press has sold Polish rights to The Natural History of Love (Caroline Petit, May) to Świat Książki. Giramondo Publishing has sold Hebrew translation rights to Inland (Gerald...

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Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Sales Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has sold simplified Chinese rights to The Eczema Detox: The low-chemical diet for eliminating skin inflammation (Karen Fischer) and Your Anxiety Beast and You: A compassionate...

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Thursday, 17 March 2022
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold German translation rights to The Truth About Her (Jacqueline Maley) to HarperCollins Germany GmbH, and English rights to The Fossil Hunter (Tea Cooper, HQ Fiction)...

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Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Sales  Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has sold simplified Chinese rights to Grandparenting Grandchildren (Jane Williams & Tessa Grigg). Children’s/YA Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing has sold Korean rights to From My Head...

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Wednesday, 2 March 2022
Sales Nonfiction  NewSouth Publishing has sold Chinese-language rights to Beyond the Hero’s Journey: A screenwriting guide for when you’ve got a different story to tell (Anthony Mullins) to People’s Literature...

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Wednesday, 23 February 2022
Sales Fiction Giramondo Publishing has sold Turkish rights to A Million Windows, A History of Books and Border Districts (Gerald Murnane) to Ketebe.  Nonfiction Giramondo Publishing has sold Turkish rights...

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Wednesday, 16 February 2022
Sales Fiction Giramondo Publishing has sold simplified Chinese language rights to Saudade (Suneeta Peres da Costa) and This Water (Beverley Farmer) to China Workers Publishing House. Nonfiction Exisle Publishing has...