Black Inc. acquires Clode’s book on ‘the hidden life of koalas’
Friday, 25 June 2021
Black Inc. has acquired world rights to biologist and natural history author Danielle Clode’s new book on ‘the hidden life of koalas’, via Jenny Darling & Associates. Black Inc. publisher...
Transit Lounge acquires Howell debut
Thursday, 24 June 2021
Transit Lounge has acquired world English rights to Adriane Howell's debut novel Hydra, via Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. The novel’s protagonist is Anja, a disgraced antiquarian who comes to...
NewSouth acquires Kamenev’s ‘Kin’
Wednesday, 23 June 2021
NewSouth has acquired ANZ rights to Kin: Family in the 21st century by journalist Marina Kamenev via Melanie Ostell Literary. In Kin, Kamenev will investigate how traditional ideas of family...
D&Q to publish Ang short story collection, graphic novel
Wednesday, 23 June 2021
Canadian publisher Drawn & Quarterly (D&Q) has acquired world rights (ex ANZ) to two books by Melbourne-based cartoonist Rachel Ang, via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management. The first...
Affirm signs first debut from Sweatshop mentorship
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Affirm Press has acquired a debut novel by Shirley Le, the first book to be acquired through the Affirm Press Mentorship for Sweatshop Writers. Le, a Vietnamese-Australian writer from Yagoona,...
‘Fight Like a Girl’ to be adapted for TV
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Aquarius Films has acquired all development and production rights to Clementine Ford’s nonfiction book Fight Like a Girl (A&U), in a deal negotiated by Jacinta Dimase at Jacinta Dimase Management....
Welbeck Flame acquires five-book ‘Hedgewitch’ series
Thursday, 17 June 2021
Welbeck Flame, the children’s imprint of UK publisher Welbeck Publishing Group, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (ex Canada) to a five-book middle-grade series by debut Australian author Sky McKenna,...
Ultimo Press acquires Coyle debut novel in two-book deal
Friday, 11 June 2021
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights for two books by debut novelist Zoë Coyle, in a deal brokered by Jeanne Ryckmans of Cameron’s Management. Where the Light Gets In is...
HarperCollins acquires Funnell’s ‘Let Her Speak’
Tuesday, 8 June 2021
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Let Her Speak by investigative journalist Nina Funnell. Let Her Speak traces the stories of sexual assault survivors across Australia as they work to...
Scribner acquires Ballard’s ‘I, Millennial’
Monday, 7 June 2021
Simon & Schuster has acquired I, Millennial: One snowflake’s screed against plague, boomers, billionaires & everything else by comedian Tom Ballard, to be published under its Scribner imprint. The publisher...
HarperCollins acquires ‘This Is Not A Book About Benedict Cumberbatch’
Friday, 4 June 2021
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to This Is Not A Book About Benedict Cumberbatch, an ‘irrepressibly clever and uplifting book about the role of joy in women’s lives’ by...
UQP acquires Haddad debut novel ‘Losing Face’
Thursday, 3 June 2021
UQP has acquired world rights to Losing Face, the debut novel by Sydney writer George Haddad. Losing Face interweaves the stories of Joey, who has recently finished school and is...
Ultimo acquires Hyland crime fiction in two-book deal
Thursday, 3 June 2021
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights to Canticle Creek and a second book by crime writer Adrian Hyland. ‘When Adam Lawson's wrecked car is found a kilometre from Daisy Baker’s...
HGCP to publish ‘Freedom Day’, sponsor Freedom Day Festival
Wednesday, 2 June 2021
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has announced the acquisition of picture book Freedom Day, which will be released under the new Bright Light Books imprint in August. Freedom Day tells...
‘The Nancys’ optioned for screen
Wednesday, 2 June 2021
Screen adaptation rights to crime novel The Nancys by Melbourne-based New Zealand author R W R McDonald (A&U) have been optioned by Queensland production company Hoodlum Entertainment, via Grace Heifetz...
HarperCollins acquires Maiden book on ‘toxic Canberra bubble’
Wednesday, 2 June 2021
HarperCollins Australia has announced its acquisition of world rights to an as yet untitled book on the ‘toxic Canberra bubble’ by Walkley Award-winning journalist Samantha Maiden in ‘a fiercely contested...
Ultimo acquires debut memoir ‘Found, Wanting’
Thursday, 27 May 2021
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Found, Wanting, the debut memoir by Natasha Sholl. On Valentine’s Day, after a night of red wine and pasta and planning for their...
Hardie Grant acquires Ampersand Prize–shortlisted YA novels
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing has acquired two additional titles from the Ampersand Prize 2020 shortlist: Completely Normal (and Other Lies) by Biffy James and We Who Hunt the Hollow by...
Splice acquires Ouston debut novel ‘Clouds’
Tuesday, 25 May 2021
UK independent press Splice has acquired world English rights to debut novel Clouds by Hobart author Adam Ouston, via Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. According to Shaw, Clouds is 'an...
‘The Yield’ optioned for screen
Thursday, 20 May 2021
Tara June Winch's 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning novel The Yield (Penguin) has been optioned for screen adaptation. Winch is represented by Melanie Ostell Literary with the option and purchase...
Amazon picks up ‘The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart’ series adaptation
Wednesday, 19 May 2021
Amazon Prime Video has announced it has commissioned production on a seven-part series adaptation of Holly Ringland's 2018 novel The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Fourth Estate), with Sigourney Weaver set...
NewSouth acquires Foster bushranger history
Friday, 14 May 2021
NewSouth has acquired world rights to Boundary Crossers: The hidden history of Australia’s other bushrangers by historian Meg Foster. ‘For too long, bushranging has been cast as the exclusive domain of...
Affirm acquires ‘After Australia’ companion anthology
Thursday, 13 May 2021
Affirm Press will publish Another Australia, a new speculative fiction companion anthology to last year's After Australia, again in partnership with Diversity Arts Australia and the Western Sydney literacy movement Sweatshop....
Reece YA novel ‘Mice’ to be adapted for film
Friday, 7 May 2021
Gordon Reece's 2010 young adult novel Mice (A&U) will be adapted into a feature film by Nicole Kidman’s production company Blossom Films and Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories. Mice is a psychological...
Crawford’s ‘No Document’ sells to US
Thursday, 29 April 2021
North American rights to Anwen Crawford’s nonfiction work No Document have been sold to Transit Books. Adam Levy and Ashley Nelson Levy from Transit acquired rights from Nick Tapper at Giramondo....
Baxter’s ‘New Animal’ sells to US, UK, optioned for TV
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
US rights to Ella Baxter's debut novel New Animal (A&U) have been sold to independent publisher Two Dollar Radio by The Book Group on behalf of Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary....
S&S acquires El Masry body inclusive wellbeing guide
Thursday, 22 April 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to Be You Be Free by Shreen El Masry. El Masry is a non-diet, body inclusive and Health At Every Size...
Hachette acquires Temple middle-grade series
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a middle-grade series by Kate Temple. The first book in the series of the same name, The Dangerous Business of Being Trilby Moffat...
S&S acquires Mahoney’s ‘Currently Between Husbands’
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to a book by writer and podcaster Cathrine Mahoney, host of So, I Quit My Day Job and co-host of Not...
PRH acquires Crabb and Sales ‘Chat 10 Looks 3’ book
Monday, 19 April 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to Well Hello by Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales. In the book, journalists Crabb and Sales, who started their popular podcast...
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