There's a lot going on at the moment. Here's a selection of developments.
Reprints Walking the Camino by Tony Kevin has been reprinted and is now in stock. Reprints are under active consideration for Real Boys by William Pollack; The New Nuclear Danger by Helen Caldicott; Buying a Piece of Paris by Ellie Nielsen; and Undiplomatic Activities by Richard Woolcott.
New edition Love and the Platypus by Nicholas Drayson is out of stock, and will be replaced in February 2008 by a smaller-format edition.
Rights Sales We've licensed North American rights to Buying a Piece of Paris by Ellie Nielsen to St Martin's, and UK rights to the same title to Atlantic Books. We've also licensed Chinese (simplified) rights to Future Files by Richard Watson to Jing Hua.
Acquisitions
Fiction
We've acquired world rights to The Ghostwriter by Nick Gadd, a mystery novel that won the prize for an unpublished manuscript in the 2007 Victorian Premier's literary awards, and A Deadly Business, a crime/mystery novel by Sydney writer Lenny Bartulin; world English (excl US) rights to Sticklebacks and Snowglobes by Bunny Goodjohn; world English rights to Fiona McGregor's next novel; and ANZ rights to the triple-longlisted UK novel What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn, and the US novel Dark Lantern by Gerri Brightwell.
Non-Fiction
We've acquired world rights to Small Wonders: how microbes rule our world by Melbourne-based, Israeli-born microbiologist Idan Ben-Barak. We've acquired ANZ rights to: * I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert, a brilliant political satirist on The Daily Show and his own Colbert Report, whose relentless parody of American right-wing bluster has earned him an Emmy award and a nomination as one of Time magazines's 100 most influential people of 2007; * The Terror Dream by Susan Faludi ('A brilliant, unsentimental, often darkly humorous account of America's nervous breakdown after 9/11.'–Publishers Weekly); * The Accidental Guerilla by David Kilcullen, a former Australian army officer, guerrilla warfare expert, and nowadays an influential 'warrior intellectual' who has been seconded as senior counter-insurgency advisor to General David Petraeus, the commanding general of the US multinational task force in Iraq; * The Anatomist by Bill Hayes (a biography, with imbedded illustrations, of the author Henry Gray and his collaborator, HV Carter, who between them wrote and created the anatomical illustrations for Gray's Anatomy); and * The Brain That Changes Itself (a North American bestseller about neuroplasticity and the frontiers of brain science) by Canadian psychiatrist and award-winning writer Norman Doidge.