Scribe acquires new Allington novel
Wednesday, 29 May 2019
Scribe has acquired world rights to Rise and Shine, a novel by Adelaide writer Patrick Allington. According to the publisher, the book is 'a Kafkaesque fable of hope about a future where eight...
‘Half the Perfect World’ to be adapted for film
Tuesday, 28 May 2019
Cascade Films has acquired the film adaptation rights to Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell’s Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955–1964 (Monash University Publishing). Half the...
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ to be adapted for stage in 2020
Tuesday, 28 May 2019
Queensland Theatre has acquired the stage adaptation rights to Trent Dalton’s bestselling Boy Swallow Universe (Fourth Estate). The adaptation will be produced in partnership with the Brisbane Festival and premiere...
Affirm acquires debut thriller; UK, US rights also sold
Monday, 27 May 2019
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to author Anna Downes’ debut thriller The Safe Place in a two-book deal, with US and UK & Commonwealth rights to the title already...
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ to be adapted for TV
Thursday, 23 May 2019
Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe (Fourth Estate) will be adapted as an international television drama, reports Deadline Hollywood. Screen rights to Dalton’s bestselling debut, negotiated on behalf of HarperCollins Australia,...
S&S acquires d’Alpuget’s updated Hawke bio
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to Bob Hawke: The Complete Biography (Blanche d'Alpuget) and will publish ‘an updated and revised commemorative hardback edition’ in December 2019....
Scribe acquires Madeleine Ryan’s debut novel
Tuesday, 21 May 2019
Scribe has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to debut literary novel A Room Called Earth by Australian writer Madeleine Ryan, via Barbara Zitwer of the Barbara J Zitwer Agency. The...
Stella winner ‘The Erratics’ sells to US, Canada
Friday, 17 May 2019
Jeanne Ryckmans at the Cameron Creswell Agency has sold US and Canadian rights in two separate deals to 2019 Stella Prize winner The Erratics (Vicki Laveau-Harvie, Fourth Estate). US rights...
2019 VIPs program highlights US market, inclusivity and creating buzz
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
This year’s annual Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) program was held alongside the Sydney Writers’ Festival and ran from Tuesday, 30 April through to Friday, 3 May. The 2019 program was...
Giramondo acquires artist Carment’s ‘Womerah Lane’
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Giramondo has acquired world rights to award-winning artist Tom Carment’s illustrated title, Womerah Lane, to be published in October. In Womerah Lane, Carment ‘offers a reportage on his life, as...
‘Pink Mountain on Locust Island’ sells to US publisher Coffee House Press
Friday, 10 May 2019
Brow Books has sold North American rights to Jamie Marina Lau's debut novel Pink Mountain on Locust Island to Coffee House Press, via the Barbara J Zitwer Agency. ‘Pink Mountain...
Hachette acquires junior fiction series ‘Kitty is Not a Cat’ in four-book deal
Wednesday, 8 May 2019
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to four junior fiction titles based on the children’s television series Kitty Is Not A Cat, via Melanie Ostell Literary. The animated television show,...
Ventura sells debut novel to Random House Germany
Wednesday, 8 May 2019
Ventura Press has sold German-language rights to Karyn Sepulveda’s debut novel Letters to My Yesterday to Random House Germany. Following a bidding war, agent Amanda Tokar sold the rights to...
UQP sells world English rights to ‘The Lost Arabs’ to Andrews McMeel Universal
Monday, 6 May 2019
UQP has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to Omar Sakr’s poetry collection The Lost Arabs to US-based Andrews McMeel Universal. UQP publishing director Madonna Duffy said the deal came...
UQP acquires Chris Flynn novel in two-book deal
Thursday, 2 May 2019
UQP has acquired world rights to Chris Flynn’s novel Mammoth, as well as a short story collection, in a two-book deal. Set mostly in the US, Mammoth is narrated by...
Hardie Grant Egmont sells two Sophie Beer titles to the US
Wednesday, 1 May 2019
Hardie Grant Egmont has sold North American rights to two books by illustrator Sophie Beer to Penguin imprint Dial Books for Young Readers. Beer’s book Love Makes a Family sold...
Screen Australia announces funding for ‘Zac Power the Movie’
Wednesday, 1 May 2019
Screen Australia has announced story development funding for Zac Power the Movie, an animated feature film based on the children’s book series of the same name published by Hardie Grant...
St Martin’s Press acquires North American, audio rights to ‘Cilka’s Journey’
Friday, 26 April 2019
St Martin’s Press has acquired North American and audio rights to Cilka’s Journey, the sequel to Heather Morris’ bestseller The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Echo). Publishers Weekly reports that St Martin’s...
HarperCollins acquires Waterland’s commercial fiction debut in two-book deal
Thursday, 18 April 2019
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to the commercial fiction debut by author and comedian Rosie Waterland, in a two-book deal. Waterland’s yet-to-be-titled first novel tells the story of Olive Alexander,...
Middle-grade in demand at Bologna; kindness and environmental themes among new trends
Wednesday, 17 April 2019
Australian publishers have reported an ‘upbeat’ Bologna Children’s Book Fair (1-4 April), with middle-grade books continuing to dominate the market, and kindness and environmental themes emerging as new trends. Books...
Text sells book on Indigenous thinking to US for six-figure sum
Wednesday, 17 April 2019
Text Publishing has sold North American rights to Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World (Tyson Yunkaporta) to HarperCollins imprint HarperOne in a six-figure pre-empt. Agent David Forrer at...
HarperCollins acquires three new McTiernan novels
Tuesday, 16 April 2019
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to three new books from crime writer Dervla McTiernan, via Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown Australia. The first book in McTiernan’s new deal, which is...
Pantera sells 10 Rowland Sinclair mysteries to UK
Friday, 12 April 2019
Pantera Press has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (excluding ANZ and Canada) to the first 10 books in the 'Rowland Sinclair Mysteries' series (Sulari Gentill) to independent UK publisher Oldcastle...
Hardie Grant Egmont to publish ‘period guide’ by Yumi Stynes, Melissa Kang
Wednesday, 10 April 2019
Hardie Grant Egmont has acquired world rights to a guide for pre-teens about getting their period, written by journalist Yumi Stynes and Melissa Kang, the longest-serving expert behind the ‘Dolly...
NewSouth to publish new play series; acquires ‘The 13-Storey Treehouse’ adaptation
Tuesday, 9 April 2019
NewSouth will publish Richard Tulloch’s playscript The 13-Storey Treehouse as part of its new play series in August 2019. NewSouth said the play ‘brings to life all the imaginative wonders’...
Brow Books acquires two Lau novels, Pham debut
Tuesday, 9 April 2019
Brow Books has acquired world rights to two novels by Jamie Marina Lau. Gunk Baby, which will be published in 2020, follows the character Leen, who has just opened an...
Scribe acquires Guardian bureau chief’s book on Pell trial
Tuesday, 9 April 2019
Scribe has acquired world rights in a pre-empt to a book by the Melbourne bureau chief of the Guardian, Melissa Davey, on the trials of Cardinal George Pell. A Fair...
Scribe acquires ‘major title’ on women of ISIS
Thursday, 4 April 2019
Scribe has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to The Guest House for Young Widows: the women of ISIS, by journalist, writer and academic Azadeh Moaveni. Scribe publisher Henry Rosenbloom describes...
Hardie Grant acquires Tim Costello memoir
Tuesday, 2 April 2019
Hardie Grant has acquired world rights to a memoir by former CEO of World Vision Australia Tim Costello. The memoir, titled A Lot with a Little, will ‘take readers on...
Hachette acquires new Max Barry novel
Monday, 1 April 2019
Hachette Australia and Hodder & Stoughton have jointly acquired British Commonwealth rights to a new ‘high-concept’ novel by Max Barry, reports the Bookseller. Hodder & Stoughton associate publisher Oliver Johnson...
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