‘Dark Emu’ to be adapted for TV documentary series
Friday, 18 October 2019
Bruce Pascoe’s book Dark Emu (Magabala) will be adapted as a television documentary series by Blackfella Films, a Sydney-based documentary production company founded by Rachel Perkins. Screen Australia has announced...
‘All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors’ sold to US, Canada
Thursday, 17 October 2019
Hardie Grant Egmont has sold US and Canadian rights to picture book All of the Factors of Why I Love Tractors (Davina Bell, illus by Jenny Løvlie) to HarperCollins imprint...
S&S to reissue Trioli’s ‘Generation F’
Thursday, 17 October 2019
Simon & Schuster (S&S) will reissue journalist Virginia Trioli’s Generation F in November, with a new foreword and afterword by the author. Originally published by Heinemann imprint Minerva in 1996, Generation...
Noni moves to PRH after eight-way auction
Thursday, 17 October 2019
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to a new series from YA author Lynette Noni titled 'The Prison Healer'. Rights were acquired in an eight-way auction via...
Scribe acquires book on Hong Kong protest movement
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Scribe publisher Henry Rosenbloom has acquired world rights to City on Fire: The fight for Hong Kong by Antony Dapiran, an Australian writer and lawyer who has lived in Hong...
Walker acquires middle-grade novels from Pamela Rushby, Allison Rushby
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Walker Books Australia has acquired world rights to new middle-grade titles by authors Pamela Rushby and Allison Rushby, who are mother and daughter. Pamela Rushby's book, called The Mummy Smugglers...
Hachette acquires Claire Thomas’ ‘The Performance’ at auction
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Hachette has acquired ANZ rights to Claire Thomas’ second novel, The Performance, in a five-way auction via Clare Forster at Curtis Brown Australia. Weidenfeld & Nicolson also acquired UK rights...
HarperCollins acquires Morton’s ‘My Year of Living Vulnerably’
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to Rick Morton’s second book, My Year of Living Vulnerably—a series of interconnected essays of memoir and social commentary written following Morton’s diagnosis of complex...
Picador acquires Spargo-Ryan memoir in ‘heated’ auction
Thursday, 10 October 2019
Picador has acquired ANZ rights to an as yet untitled work of nonfiction by Anna Spargo-Ryan. Picador publisher Mathilda Imlah won a 'heated' auction to acquire the rights via Tara...
Australian novels, international rights—what’s the story? Part three
Wednesday, 9 October 2019
In the lead-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair on 16–21 October, Books+Publishing is publishing a three-part feature on Australian fiction rights sales by researcher Airlie Lawson. A PhD candidate at the Australian National...
Three Sara Foster novels sold to US in six-figure deal
Wednesday, 9 October 2019
Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown Australia has sold North American rights to three novels by Perth-based author Sara Foster to Blackstone Publishing in a six-figure deal. Blackstone Publishing acquired rights...
Brow Books acquires Dao’s debut novel
Tuesday, 8 October 2019
Brow Books has acquired world rights to André Dao’s debut novel, which has the working title Anamnesis, or A Book No Longer Discussed Today. Set in Ho Chi Minh City,...
Masson joins MidnightSun with spec-fic YA novel
Monday, 7 October 2019
MidnightSun Publishing has acquired world rights to Sophie Masson’s YA speculative fiction novel The Ghost Squad. Set in ‘an alternative yet jarringly familiar reality’, The Ghost Squad follows 16-year-old Polly...
Australian novels, international rights: What’s the story? Part two
Wednesday, 2 October 2019
In the lead-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair on 16–21 October, Books+Publishing is publishing a three-part feature on Australian fiction rights sales by researcher Airlie Lawson. A PhD candidate at...
HarperCollins acquires former NSW homicide detective Jubelin’s memoir
Wednesday, 2 October 2019
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to former NSW homicide detective Gary Jubelin’s as yet untitled memoir. HarperCollins head of Australian nonfiction Helen Littleton acquired rights via Fordham Company CEO Nick...
Hachette acquires ‘On’ series from MUP
Wednesday, 2 October 2019
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to Melbourne University Publishing's (MUP) 'On' series of essays. The deal was negotiated by MUP then-acting CEO Richard Tegoni. The list of over 30...
PRH sells ‘The Yield’ to US, France
Wednesday, 2 October 2019
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has sold Tara June Winch’s novel The Yield to publishers in the US and France. Pamela Malpas at Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency sold world English-language...
PRH sells ‘Jane in Love’ to US
Tuesday, 1 October 2019
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has sold North American rights to Rachel Givney’s forthcoming novel Jane in Love (Michael Joseph) to HarperCollins imprint William Morrow, via Daniel Lazar at Writers...
‘Dinner Detectives’ books to be developed for TV
Thursday, 26 September 2019
Melbourne-based production studio BES Animation has acquired world broadcast and digital content rights to self-published picture book series ‘Dinner Detectives’, with plans to develop the books into a multi-platform TV...
Windy Hollow makes first North American sale with ‘Ivy Bird’
Thursday, 26 September 2019
Independent children’s publisher Windy Hollow has sold North American rights to Ivy Bird (Tania McCartney, illus by Jess Racklyeft) to Blue Dot Books. The deal, negotiated by Natasha Solomun at...
Australian novels, international rights: What’s the story? Part one
Wednesday, 25 September 2019
In the lead-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair on 16–21 October, Books+Publishing is publishing a three-part feature on Australian fiction rights sales by researcher Airlie Lawson. A PhD candidate at...
Ventura Press acquires Dalgarno’s debut novel ‘Poly’
Wednesday, 25 September 2019
Ventura Press has acquired world rights to Paul Dalgarno’s debut novel, Poly. The rights were acquired via Martin Shaw at Alex Adsett Publishing Services. Shaw described Dalgarno’s novel as ‘a...
Hoffmann’s ‘inclusive, uplifting’ picture books sold to US
Monday, 23 September 2019
Hardie Grant Egmont has sold US rights to Susann Hoffmann’s Girls are Pretty ... (smart, clever, fast) and Boys Will Be ... (kind, calm, creative) to Penguin Philomel. Girls are...
S&S acquires Mildenhall’s ‘The Mother Fault’ in two-book deal
Monday, 23 September 2019
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has acquired ANZ rights at auction to Kate Mildenhall’s ‘genre-busting’ sophomore novel The Mother Fault in a two-book deal, via Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown. S&S...
A&U acquires ‘Larrimah’ for six-figure sum
Friday, 20 September 2019
Allen & Unwin has acquired rights to Larrimah: An outback town, a missing man and 11 people, who mostly hate each other by journalists Kylie Stevenson and Caroline Graham. ANZ...
NewSouth to publish Bryant’s debut ‘Hysteria’
Friday, 20 September 2019
NewSouth Publishing has acquired world rights to Hysteria, the debut nonfiction book by Adelaide writer Katerina Bryant, via Sarah McKenzie Literary Management. Hysteria is a hybrid memoir that explores chronic mental...
HarperCollins acquires rights to Hazlehurst’s memoir
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to actor Noni Hazlehurst’s memoir in a 'hotly contested' auction. The publisher said Hazlehurst, an award-winning stage and screen actor and advocate for children’s welfare,...
‘You Must be Layla’ sells to Puffin UK
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) to Yassmin Abdel-Magied's You Must Be Layla to Puffin UK, reports the Bookseller. Abdel-Magied is a Sudanese-Australian writer,...
Black Inc. sells Glover’s ‘The Last Man in Europe’ to UK
Tuesday, 17 September 2019
Black Inc. has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) to Dennis Glover’s novel The Last Man in Europe to Edinburgh-based independent publisher Polygon. Glover’s novel, about the writing of...
Parrett’s ‘There Was Still Love’ sold to UK
Tuesday, 17 September 2019
Martin Shaw of Alex Adsett Publishing Services has sold UK and Commonwealth rights to Favel Parrett’s third novel, There Was Still Love (Hachette), to Francine Toon at Sceptre, Hodder &...
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