Scribe acquires winner of 2014 Vic Prem’s Unpublished Manuscript Award in two-book deal

Scribe has acquired world rights in two novels by Miles Allinson, the Melbourne author whose first novel, Fever of Animals, won the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in May this year. Fever of Animals is a thoughtful and beautifully observed novel about a man trying to make sense of his life through the prism of two overseas journeys he's taken; one in which his relationship disintegrated, and the other in which he searches for a Romanian surrealist painter who disappeared in a forest in 1967.

Scribe acquired the rights at auction from Clare Forster at Curtis Brown. Fever of Animals is scheduled for publication in Australia in 2015 and the UK in 2016.

Scribe publisher Henry Rosenbloom said: ‘We’re delighted to be publishing Miles, and to be bringing to Australian and United Kingdom readers a genuinely exciting new literary talent. Miles’ work is characterised by some of the best writing I have seen in an Australian debut.'

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Scribe acquires winner of 2014 Vic Prem’s Unpublished Manuscript Award in two-book deal

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