Friday, 7 October 2022
Scottish imprint Polygon has acquired world rights (ex ANZ) for Paul Dalgarno’s forthcoming novel A Country of Eternal Light (HarperCollins, February 2023), in a deal brokered by Martin Shaw of...

Monday, 26 September 2022
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to US-based Australian author Karen Kirsten’s Holocaust memoir Irena’s Gift, via Chris Bucci and Vanessa Kerr at Aevitas. Irena’s Gift tells the story of...

Tuesday, 20 September 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to a memoir by Priya Nadesalingam. Following the national interest generated by community supporters over several years in the ‘Home to Biloela’...

Monday, 19 September 2022
Screen rights to Geraldine Brooks’s most recent novel Horse (Hachette) have been acquired by Sony’s 3000 Pictures ‘in a competitive situation’, according to Deadline. Brooks’ novel tells the story of...

Thursday, 15 September 2022
Sally Bird at Calidris Literary Agency has sold world rights to Australian author Evelyn Cronk’s debut novel Without Question to US publisher Level Best Books, which specialises in contemporary and...

Friday, 26 August 2022
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Gawimarra: Gathering, the third poetry collection by Wiradjuri writer, critic and poet Jeanine Leane. The product of decades of poetic,...

Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights for I Look Forward to Hearing from You, the debut novel by Sydney-based writer Nick Bhasin, in a deal agented by...

Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Production company CJZ has optioned film and television rights for The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison (Meredith Jaffé, HarperCollins), in a deal negotiated by Tara Wynne of Curtis Brown Australia. The...

Monday, 15 August 2022
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to Jessica Seaborn’s debut ‘anti-romcom’ novel Perfect-ish, in a two-book deal via Caitlan Cooper-Trent at Curtis Brown. PRH described Perfect-ish as a...

Tuesday, 9 August 2022
UQP has acquired world rights to debut novel Flinch by 2022 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize winner Saraid Taylor. A coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of elite sport and...

Thursday, 4 August 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights for Ashley Kalagian Blunt’s thriller Dark Mode, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson from Curtis Brown. Described by the publisher as ‘compulsive and...

Tuesday, 2 August 2022
Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary, on behalf of Puncher & Wattmann, has sold UK and US rights at auction to Michael Winkler’s debut novel Grimmish, in a co-publishing deal between...

Friday, 29 July 2022
UQP has acquired world rights to poet Samuel Wagan Watson's first short story collection, New and Used Ghosts. The collection of ghost stories interrogates and celebrates myth, legend and secrets...

Thursday, 28 July 2022
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Gretchen Shirm's second novel The Crying Room, via Jane Novak Literary Agency. ‘It is hard to think of a novel more deeply sensitive and...