TRANSLATION RIGHTS LIST FICTION London Book Fair 2017 General ......................................................... p.2 Commercial ............................................... p.10 Crime, Mystery & Thriller ............................ p.14 Young Adult ................................................ p.21 Science Fiction & Fantasy ....................... p.22 ANDY HINE Rights Director (for Brazil, Germany, Italy, Poland, Scandinavia, Latin America and the Baltic States)
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[email protected] Little, Brown Book Group Ltd Carmelite House 50 Victoria Embankment London EC4Y 0DZ Tel: +44 020 3122 6209 Rights sold displayed in parentheses indicates that we do not control the rights * Indicates new title since previous Rights list Titles in italics were not published by Little, Brown Book Group GENERAL * CLOSING DOWN by Sally Abbott Contemporary fiction | Hachette Australia | 288pp | April 2017 A glimpse into a world fractured by a financial crisis and global climate change No matter how strange, difficult and absurd the world becomes, some things never change. The importance of home. Of love. Of kindness to strangers. Of memories and dreams. Australia's rural towns and communities are closing down, much of Australia is being sold to overseas interests, states and countries and regions are being realigned worldwide. Town matriarch Granna Adams, her grandson Roberto, the lonely and thoughtful Clare - all try in their own way to hold on to their sense of self, even as the world around them fractures.