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Shelley Burr sells debut novel to Hachette/Hodder & Stoughton in hotly contested international auction

We are THRILLED to announce that we’ve sold world rights to Shelley Burr’s debut ‘Wake’ in hotly contested international auctions in Australia, the UK and US.

The substantial, six-figure, two-book deal will see Hachette Australia publishing Wake in May 2022, with Hodder & Stoughton (UK) and William Morrow (US) publishing the book in July 2022.

Wake won the CWA Debut Dagger in 2019 and was previously shortlisted for both the Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award and the Bath Novel Award. It is described by the publishers ‘as a searing crime novel where the grief and guilt surrounding the unsolved disappearance of a nine-year-old twin girl still haunt a small NSW farming community almost twenty years later’.

Shelley Burr