By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson
As Sharjah Takes Off In Earnest
Sharjah’s Sheikh Sultan, the creator and master benefactor of the Sharjah International Book Fair, opens the show’s 12-day run this week. Image: Sharjah Book Authority, Abs Ahmedi.
With the 44th edition of the venerable Sharjah International Book Authority now in full gear—having just closed its 15th year of its strong Sharjah Professsional Conference—the rights pool, you may want to review, is reported to have reached as many as 1,158 tables this year, a new high.
With the 44th edition of the venerable Sharjah International Book Authority now in full gear—having just closed the 15th year of its strong Sharjah Professional Conference—the rights pool, you may want to review, is reported to have reached as many as 1,158 tables this year, a new high.
With it’s new slogan, “It’s Between a Book and You,” a huge round of speaking figures is arriving in the Gulf city for their appearances, and we’ll shortly have news for you, too, on the incoming 2025 edition of China Shanghai International Book Fair. Stay tuned, as we say.
As in each of these Rights Roundup exercises, we use some of the sales copy supplied to us by agents and rights directors, editing that copy to give you an idea about a book’s nature and tone, but limiting the promotional elements. If you’d like to submit a deal to Publishing Perspectives, see the instructions at the end of this article.
As the Post-Frankfurt, the Rights Landscape Undergoes Its Annual Shakedown, a aaaaaa’
The Shipikisha Club
By Mubanga Kalimamukwento
- Publisher: Dzanc Books, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Rights contact: Anna Soler-Pont at Pontas Literary & Film Agency
- Book info: Read more here
- This title is to be published March 10.
Reported rights sales :
- Newest: Portuguese (Brazil): Ímã Editorial (pre-empt)
- English (UK and Commonwealth, excluding Canada and South Africa): Cassava Republic (pre-empt)
- English: (South Africa), Jacana Media
- French; Éditions de l’Aube (pre-empt)
- Italian: Astoria (pre-empt)
Days on the Night Train
(Nachtzugtage)
By Millay Hyatt
- Publisher: Matthes & Seitz Berlin
- Rights contact:Maren Mentzel, Matthes & Seitz Berlin
- Book info: Read more here“A literary travel book in which the magic of traveling by train over long distances becomes palpable.
Millay Hyatt
Dallas-born “Millay Hyatt is a passionate train traveler.
“It’s the charm of the ‘unpadded encounter with the world’ that still makes her swap every airplane for a trip by rail. I
“In Days on the Night Train, she recounts her own experiences on countless long train journeys, mostly within Europe, which haven taken her to Scotland, Turkey, Georgia, France, Spain, Italy, and even as far as Tunisia.”
The Wonder of Life on Earth
By Henry Gee
Illusrator: Raxenne Maniquiz
- Publisher: Pan Macmillan, London
- Rights contact: Two Hoots (Macmillan Chidren’s), Alice Natali
- Book info: Read more here
Reported rights sales :
This title releases in early February.
- Bulgaria: Fiut
- Chinese: Post & Telecom Press Co., Ltd
- German: Dorling Kindersley Verlag GmbH
- Korean: Kachi Publishing Co., Ltd
“In 30 bite-size chapters, Nature editor and author of the award-winning A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth Henry Gee tells the incredible, unlikely story of life on our planet, with vibrant color illustrations from Raxenne Maniquiz.
Henry Gee and Raxenne Maniquiz
The Wonder of Life on Earth packs billions of years of evolution into one amazing 80-page book, journeying through disasters, evolutionary oddities, and a planet shaped by supervolcanoes, toxic air, and asteroids.
Talented botanical illustrator Raxenne Maniquiz brings to life a parade of strange and marvellous creatures. Travel back in time to look inside bacteria and the first cells, to the planet’s first trees and plants, to the weird rangeomorphs, and on to armored fishes, dinosaurs, nimble mammals and endlessly resourceful apes and primates.
Henry’s gripping narrative makes it easy to understand the carbon cycle, natural selection, fossilisation and the galactic fluctuations that have shaped our planet and the life on its surface.
Complete with a glossary, a timeline and a view into the future, this astonishing and readable natural history is perfect for younger readers and anyone looking for an accessible introduction to the biggest topic around: life.
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