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Inside the Australian and New Zealand book industry

Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Sales Fiction Scribe has sold French translation rights to Kataraina (Becky Manawatu) to Au Vent des Îles; and Turkish translation rights in Thunderhead (Miranda Darling) to Liber Plus. Nonfiction Allen...

Wednesday, 4 December 2024
Sales Fiction UQP has sold French rights to Edenglassie (Melissa Lucashenko). Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold multiple rights to The Shortest History of AI (Toby Walsh), with Vietnamese rights to Ho Chi Minh City General Publishing...

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Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Chinese traditional character rights to The Shortest History of AI by (Toby Walsh) to Sunrise Press in Taiwan. Spinifex has sold German rights to Penile Imperialism...

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Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Portuguese rights to The Shortest History of Japan (Lesley Downer), The Shortest History of Italy (Ross King), The Shortest History of Ancient Rome (Ross King), and The Shortest History...

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Wednesday, 13 November 2024
Sales Nonfiction Allen & Unwin has sold Portuguese rights for Reasons Not to Worry (Brigid Delaney) to PRH Grupo Editorial. Black Inc. has sold North American rights to The Shortest History...

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Wednesday, 6 November 2024
Sales Children’s/YA Allen & Unwin (A&U) has sold North American rights to South with the Seabirds (Jess McGeachin); North American rights to four books in the Bravepaw series (L M Wilkinson, illus...

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Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold UK/Commonwealth (ex ANZ, Canada, Indian Subcontinent) rights to The Shortest History of Scandinavia (Mart Kuldkepp) to Old Street; and Serbian translation rights to The Shortest...

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Wednesday, 23 October 2024
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold world English (ex ANZ) rights to Melanesia: Travels in Black Oceania (Hamish McDonald) to Hurst Publishers; North America rights to The Shortest History of AI...

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Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Sales Fiction Jenny Darling & Associates has sold rights to Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional (A&U) to Sceptre (UK), Riverhead (US), Seuil (France), Kein & Aber (Germany), Fazi Editore (Italy), Kultur (Turkey), One...

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Tuesday, 8 October 2024
Sales Fiction Giramondo has sold North American rights to The Island (Antigone Kefala) to Transit Books. Nonfiction Giramondo has sold North American rights to Sydney Journals (Antigone Kefala) to Transit Books. Black...

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Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Sales Children’s/YA Scholastic has sold French rights to Spy Academy books 1 and 2 (Jack Heath); English language rights within Korea to Zoo School (Heath McKenzie); Croatian rights to Bad Guys...

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Wednesday, 25 September 2024
Sales Fiction Key People Literary Management has sold Dutch rights to Pictures of You (Emma Grey, Penguin, November) to De Fontein in a pre-empt deal, via ILA UK. Nonfiction Black...

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Wednesday, 18 September 2024
Sales Nonfiction Scribe has sold Indonesian rights to Life Skills for a Broken World (Ahona Guha) to Bhuana Ilmu Populer; and Greek rights to 12 Rules for Strife (Jeff Sparrow...

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Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Sales Fiction Bold Type Agency has sold traditional Chinese rights to Treasure & Dirt, The Tilt and The Seven (all Chris Hammer, A&U) in Taiwan; and rights to Green Dot (Madeleine Gray,...

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Wednesday, 4 September 2024
Sales Nonfiction Allen & Unwin has sold Thai rights to 101 Ways to Find Calm (Rebekkah Ballagh) to Saengdao Publishing House. Black Inc. has sold traditional Chinese rights to The Shortest...

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Wednesday, 28 August 2024
Sales Nonfiction HarperCollins has sold Dutch language rights to Even More Basics to Brilliance (Donna Hay, HarperCollins) to Uitgeverij Unieboek. Children’s HarperCollins has sold Brazilian Portuguese language rights to Bunny and Bird: How...

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Wednesday, 21 August 2024
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold world English (ex ANZ) rights to Whitewash: Poland and the Jews (Jan Grabowski, Jewish Quarterly) to Toronto University Press; Russian rights to Beyond the Snow Leopard:...

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Wednesday, 14 August 2024
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold Serbian rights to The Shortest History of Economics (Andrew Leigh) and The Shortest History of the World (David Baker) to Laguna, via the Anna Jarota...

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Wednesday, 7 August 2024
Sales Nonfiction Allen & Unwin has sold Thai rights to Good with Money (Emma Edwards) to B2S and Chinese simplified rights to the same title to China Machine Press. Children’s/YA Scholastic...

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Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Sales Fiction HarperCollins has sold German language rights to No Hard Feelings (Genevieve Novak) to Bastei Lübbe. Zeitgeist Literary has sold rights to A Language of Limbs (Dylin Hardcastle, Picador), including Turkish rights...