Subsidiary rights


We have a very active rights department, working closely with subagents and publishing houses around the world to achieve the best possible English language and translation rights sales for our list.

We attend numerous book fairs, including Frankfurt, London, and Bologna.

If you have a rights query please email us at rights@allenandunwin.com.


Click on the links below to download a PDF of the relevant Rights Guide:


Rights Guides for adult titles:

Frankfurt Adult Rights Guide 2009

London Book Fair Adult Rights Guide 2009

London Book Fair Translation Rights 2008

London Book Fair English Language Rights 2008

Frankfurt Adult Rights Guide 2008

Rights Guides for children’s titles

Frankfurt Book Fair 2009 - children's rights guide

Bologna 2009

Bologna 2008

Bologna 2007

Frankfurt Book Fair 2008 - children's

Frankfurt Book Fair 2007 - children's

Rights news


The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas

Allen & Unwin is delighted to announce UK, US, Canadian, French, Dutch, Russian, Korean, Greek, Slovenian and Lithuanian rights sales for The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas.

In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that which connects us all: the modern family and domestic life in the twenty-first century.

At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own.  The Slap is told from the points of view of eight people who were present at the barbecue. The slap and its consequences force them all to question their own families and the way they live, their expectations, beliefs and desires.

What unfolds is a powerful, haunting novel about love, sex and marriage, parenting and children, and the fury and intensity - all the passions and conflicting beliefs - that family can arouse. In its clear-eyed and forensic dissection of the ever-growing middle class and its aspirations and fears, The Slap is also a poignant, provocative novel about the nature of loyalty and happiness, compromise and truth.

The Slap reached #6 in the Canadian Globe and Mail bestseller list, where it has featured for five weeks. It has sold over 100,000 copies here in Australia.

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PRIZES AND AWARDS
Winner, Overall Best Book the Commonwealth Writer's Prize 2009
Winner, Australian Bookseller's Association Book of the Year 2009
Winner, Australian Book Industry Awards Literary Fiction Book of the Year and Overall Book of the Year 2009
Winner, Australian Literary Society Gold Medal 2009
Winner, Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award 2009
Shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Prize 2009
Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Prize 2009