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Korean-language rights to the first three titles in Alan Bradley’s mystery series featuring an 11-year-old pig-tailed sleuth in 1950s England – The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Tied Up With Strings, and Hang, Gypsy! Dance, Gypsy! – have gone to Munhakdongne Publishing. The deal was arranged by Sue Yang at Eric Yang Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. This brings the number of territories sold worldwide to ten. |
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Polish-language rights to Paul Glennon’s debut YA novel Bookweird, about a young boy who finds himself trapped in his family’s books, have gone to Bertelsmann Media (Swiat Ksiazki). The deal was arranged by Agnieszka Dembek of Graal, Ltd. on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. |
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US rights go to to Joel Ariaratnam at Thomas Dunne Books for publication in spring 2009 of novelist Kristen den Hartog and her sister Tracy Kasaboski’s The Occupied Garden, a true story set in Nazi-occupied Holland similar to Irene Nemirovsky’s Suite Francaise. Centered around the authors’ grandparents, The Occupied Garden shows the everyday acts of courage and sacrifice displayed by millions of ordinary Dutch people. |
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Polish-language rights to the first title in Alan Bradley’s mystery series featuring an eleven-year-old pig-tailed sleuth in 1950s England, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, have been sold to Vesper. The deal was arranged by Agnieszka Dembek of Graal Ltd. on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. This brings the number of territories sold to nine. |
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Hebrew-language rights to psychologist Susan Pinker’s The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women, and the Real Gender Gap, which examines why the differences between girls and boys in the classroom are reversed in the workplace, so that men still dominate the upper echelons and high-powered women often opt out, have gone to Aryeh Nir, via Ilana Kurshan at The Deborah Harris Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. This brings the number of territories sold to fourteen. |
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French rights to the first three titles in Alan Bradley’s mystery series featuring an 11-year-old pig-tailed sleuth in 1950s London – The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Tied Up with Strings, and Hang, Gypsy! Dance, Gypsy! – have gone to Isabelle Laffont at Editions JC Lattès. The deal was arranged by Michèle Kanonidis at La Nouvelle Agence on behalf of the Bukowski Agency. This brings the number of territories sold up to eight, with rights previously sold in the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Israel. |
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German-language rights to the first three titles in Alan Bradley’s mystery series featuring an 11-year-old pig-tailed sleuth in 1950s London, beginning with The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, have been sold at auction to Blanvalet (Random House) for publication in Spring 2010. The deal was arranged by Annelie Geissler of Mohrbooks on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Spanish-language rights to the same three titles in the series have just gone to Editorial Planeta. The deal was arranged by Natàlia Berenguer of Sandra Bruna Agència Literària on behalf of the Bukowski Agency. This brings the number of territories sold up to seven. The US, UK, and Canada will publish the first book in Spring of 2009. |
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US rights to Abigail Carter’s memoir The Alchemy of Loss: A Young Widow's Transformation have been sold to Tom Sands at HCI Books for publication in fall 2008. |
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Hebrew rights to the first two titles in Alan Bradley’s mystery series featuring an 11-year-old pig-tailed sleuth in 1950s London, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and Tied Up With Strings have been sold to Matar Publishing House in Israel by Ilana Kurshan of The Deborah Harris Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency.
There is currently a four-party auction in process for German rights to the series.
Rights to the first three titles in the series have previously been sold in the US, UK, Canada, and Italy. English-language editions of the first book will be released in spring 09, with five more to come, one per year. |
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Polish rights to psychologist Susan Pinker’s The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women, and The Real Gender Gap have gone to Jacek Santorski & Co, bringing the total territories sold to fourteen. The deal was arranged by Agnieszka Dembek of Graal Ltd. on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. |
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French rights to psychologist Susan Pinker’s The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women, and the Real Gender Gap to Editions Les Arènes of Paris (world ex-Canada) and Transcontinental of Montreal (Canada) for publication in fall 2008 by Emmanuelle Aronson of La Nouvelle Agence on behalf of The Bukowski Agency, bringing the total territories sold to thirteen. |
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Polish rights to Adria Vasil’s Canadian bestseller Ecoholic: Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Information, Products and Services have gone to Bertelsmann Media. The deal was arranged by Agnieszka Dembek of Graal Ltd. on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. |
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Italian rights to Song of Kahunsha author Anosh Irani's third novel Dahanu Road, an irreverent multigenerational saga about the dissolute Irani clan of Bombay and their relationship with the tribal people who labour on their planatations, told through a contemporary inter-caste love story, again to Maria Giulia Castiglione of Piemme based on a synopsis and one-page sample, by Laura Grandi of Grandi & Associati on behalf of the Bukowski Agency, for publication in 2009. |
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Polish rights to all three volumes of Rebecca Eckler’s mommy memoirs – Knocked Up, Wiped!, and Toddlers Gone Wild – have gone to Vesper. The deal was arranged by Agnieszka Dembek of Graal Ltd. on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. |
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Dutch rights to Toddlers Gone Wild, the third book in Rebecca Eckler’s series of memoirs on the trials and tribulations of new motherhood, have gone to Sirene, for publication in spring 2009. The deal was arranged by Marianne Schönbach of Marianne Schönbach Literary Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. |
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Canadian rights to Song of Kahunsha author Anosh Irani’s third novel, Dahanu Road, an irreverent multi-generational saga about the dissolute Irani clan’s migration from Iran to Bombay and their subsequent exploitive relationship with the local tribal people who work on their plantations, told through a contemporary inter-caste love story, to Maya Mavjee at Doubleday Canada for publication in Spring 2009. |
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Italian rights to psychologist Susan Pinker’s The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women, and the Real Gender Gap, exploring the biological reasons why girls succeed better than boys at school but often choose to opt out of high-status jobs in the workplace, to Einaudi for publication in 2009, by Silvia Donzelli of Grandi & Associati on behalf of The Bukowski Agency; also Romanian rights to Curtea Veche by Simona Kessler on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. A Polish offer has just been received. Rights have previously been sold in 9 other territories. |
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World rights ex-Canada to experimental psychologist Colin Ellard’s You Are Here: Why we can find our way to the moon but get lost in the mall , exploring the fact that humans don’t have the way-finding skills that all other species possess, disconnecting us from our environment, to Dan Feder at Doubleday for publication in spring 2009. Canadian rights previously sold to Jim Gifford at HarperCollins Canada, which will publish simultaneously. |
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German-language rights to Holding My Breath, Sidura Ludwig’s debut novel spanning three generations of Jewish women in Winnipeg, have gone to Droemer Verlag. Rights have previously sold in Canada, the US, and the UK. The deal was arranged by Annelie Geissler of Mohrbooks on behalf of the Bukowski Agency. |
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Italian rights to neurologist Liam Durcan’s debut novel García’s Heart, about the war crimes trial of a doctor accused of participating in torture, to L’Ancora del Mediterraneano, for release in 2009, by Silvia Donzelli of Grandi & Associati on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights previously sold in the USA, Canada, and Holland. |
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Canadian rights to Cargo of Orchids author Susan Musgrave’s new novel Given, a dark comedy about a female escaped convict who finds a new baby while searching for her supposedly dead son and trying to reintegrate into society, to Diane Martin at Knopf Canada for release in fall 2009. |
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Australian rights to Abigail Carter’s memoir of a young mother’s sudden widowhood, The Alchemy of Loss (McClelland and Stewart in Canada, March 2008 pub), have been sold to Publisher Vanessa Radnidge of Hachette Australia, for publication in February 2009. Dutch rights have previously gone to Mistral, a new imprint of the Foreign Media Group. |
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Canadian English rights to two sequels to Adria Vasil’s bestseller Ecoholic: Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Information, Products and Services in Canada, beginning with Ecoholic Home for publication in fall 2009, to Marion Garner at Vintage Canada. US rights to the first book previously sold to Norton. |
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Canadian English rights to Arctic Front: Defending Canadian Interests in the Far North, by Ken Coates, Whitney Lackenbauer, Bill Morrison, and Greg Poelzer, to Patrick Crean at Thomas Allen Publishers, for publication in fall 2008. |
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