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8/16/2017

Newsletters | Books+Publishing

Acquisitions Fiction — Hachette has acquired ANZ rights to A People’s History of the Vampire Uprising (Raymond A Villareal); and world rights to two new titles in the ‘Heart of the City’ series (C J Duggan). Fox Searchlight has acquired the film option to Two Steps Forward (Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist, see news ). Nonfiction — Hachette has acquired world rights to Best of the Best (Nikon / Surfing Australia); world rights to The Essence of You and Me (Kate and Barney Miller); world rights to The Complete Desserts Cookbook (Adriano Zumbo); world rights to Totally Buf: Your 6 Week Guide to Becoming Beautiful, Unstoppable and Fearless (Libby Babet & the BUF Girls); ANZ rights to You’re Not That Great (But Neither is Anyone Else) (Elan Gale); and world rights to The Keto Diet (Scott Gooding). Children’s — Hachette has acquired world rights to The Patchwork Sky (Maxine Beneba Clarke & Van T Rudd); world rights to Inga Simpson’s first picture book The Peach King ; and world rights to Amazing Australian Women (Pamela Freeman). Little Pink Dog Books has acquired world rights to See Monkey (Sophie Masson, illus by Kathy Creamer). For more rights news, sign up to Books+Publishing ’s Think Australian newsletters here . Candice Fox, Century) is in second place, Colombiano (Rusty Young, Bantam) is in ninth, and Live Lead Learn (Gail Kelly, Viking) is in 10th. Patterson and Fox’s collaboration is also at the top of the fastest movers chart ahead of Pape, Young and Kelly’s books. The film tie-in edition of It (Stephen King, Hachette) rounds out the rest of the top five fastest movers. The highest new entries chart is an all-Australian affair this week, led by James Halliday’s Halliday Wine Companion 2018 (Hardie Grant). In second spot is Labour senator Sam Dastyari’s memoir One Halal of a Story (MUP), followed by three children’s books: two titles in the newly launched ‘Super Mooper’ series from the ‘Sally Rippin Presents’ line, Giggling Gertie in third place and Nervous Nellie in fifth (both Fiona Harris, Sally Rippin & Scott Egdar, Five Mile), with Tamara Moss’ swashbuckling middle-grade novel Lintang and the Pirate Queen (Random House) in fourth— Books+Publishing (source: Nielsen BookScan, week ending 5 August 2017). WORLD NEWS > McBride, Cumming win 2017 James Tait Black Prizes The winners of the James Tait Black Prizes for fiction and biography—the UK’s oldest literary awards—have been announced. Eimear McBride’s second novel The Lesser Bohemians (Text) has won the £10,000 (A$16,491) prize for fiction. BESTSELLERS » Bestsellers this week While this week’s overall bestsellers chart remains largely similar to last week’s, with The Barefoot Investor (Scott Pape, John Wiley) in top spot, three new books have climbed into the top 10; Fifty Fifty (James Patterson &

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