{"id":74750,"date":"2025-08-18T05:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T05:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74750\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T05:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T05:23:10","slug":"au-acquires-katzs-memoir-bookspublishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74750\/","title":{"rendered":"A&#038;U acquires Katz\u2019s memoir | Books+Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tMonday, 18 August 2025 \u00a0 Books+Publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/booksandpublishing\/\" class=\"entry-social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> @booksandpublishing<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Allen &amp; Unwin (A&amp;U) has acquired world English rights to My Cursed Vagina, a memoir by Lally Katz, via Wendy Howell and Lucy White from Creative Representation.<\/p>\n<p>The memoir follows Katz as she explores \u2018the many forms a supposed hex on her takes as she travels the world looking for love, compulsively writing down everything as she goes\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018These are hilarious and heartbreaking stories of disastrous dates, hopeful sex, straight-talking friendships, a surprise marriage, the adventure of motherhood and the strange gifts of illness,\u2019 said the publisher. \u2018Importantly, this is a story about how sometimes the unexpected leads us to the place we should land.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Katz is an Australian\/American playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include Neighbourhood Watch,\u00a0Atlantis,\u00a0The Eisteddfod, and Stories I Want to Tell You in Person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Publisher Sally Heath said, \u2018This is a wonderful wild ride from a grand storyteller who travels through life leaving no intimacy, faux pas or joy unexamined to share on the page. The result is a deep dive into a life fully lived that is both uniquely Lally\u2019s and instantly relatable.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Katz said, \u2018I have butterflies in my stomach \u2013 both from the excitement and from some of the things I\u2019ve revealed! I loved living it and loved writing it, and now I\u2019m thrilled for it to go out into the world and be read.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A&amp;U plans to publish My Cursed Vagina\u00a0in February 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"catlist\">Category: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=local-news\" class=\"catitem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local\u00a0news<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=rights-news\" class=\"catitem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rights\u00a0and\u00a0acquisitions<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 18 August 2025 \u00a0 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing Allen &amp; Unwin (A&amp;U) has acquired world English rights to My&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1296,428,7579,7582,7575,7578,457,7581,5494,96,7577,620,7580,7576,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-74750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-asia-pacific","tag-australia","tag-author-interviews","tag-book-awards","tag-book-news","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-bookseller-jobs","tag-ebooks","tag-entertainment","tag-library-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-publishing-jobs","tag-publishing-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}