Wednesday, 4 July 2018
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold UK and Irish rights to Sally Piper’s The Geography of Friendship and 2014 debut novel Grace’s Table to Legend Press, in a two-book...

Thursday, 28 June 2018
Text Publishing has sold North American rights to Katherine Collette’s forthcoming debut The Helpline to Tara Parsons, editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster’s (S&S) Touchstone division in the US, in a...

Thursday, 28 June 2018
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired author Tony Birch’s third novel, The White Girl. World (including translation) rights were acquired by UQP publishing director and acting-CEO Madonna Duffy, as...

Thursday, 28 June 2018
HarperCollins Australia has announced a global deal for Trent Dalton’s debut Boy Swallows Universe that will see the book published through HarperCollins companies across major English and translation markets. HarperCollins...

Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Hardie Grant Travel has acquired world rights to a travel guide book by Bunurong writer Bruce Pascoe. The as-yet-untitled book will look at places in Australia ‘where evidence of Indigenous...

Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Australian author Megan Goldin’s second novel, The Escape Room (Michael Joseph), has sold into North America in a six-figure, two-book deal negotiated by David Gernert of the Gernert Agency on...

Friday, 22 June 2018
NewSouth Publishing has sold world English rights (ex ANZ) to Joy McCann’s Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean to the University of Chicago Press. NewSouth publisher Elspeth Menzies...

Monday, 18 June 2018
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold UK and US rights for Charles Massy’s Call of the Reed Warbler to Chelsea Green, and Italian-language rights to The Everlasting Sunday by...

Wednesday, 13 June 2018
DreamWorks Animation has begun development on a feature animated film based on Aaron Blabey’s illustrated chapter book series The Bad Guys (Scholastic). Foundation Media Partners and Northside Services negotiated the...

Friday, 1 June 2018
Scribe has acquired rights to a number of new titles, including a biography of post-punk musician Rowland S Howard by Melbourne-based bookseller and writer Gerard Elson. Titled Something Flammable: Approaching...

Thursday, 31 May 2018
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has sold world French rights to Karen Viggers’ forthcoming novel, The World Beneath the Trees, to publisher Les Escales, following the Melbourne author’s exceptional sales record...

Wednesday, 30 May 2018
Brisbane author Nicholas John Turner’s debut self-published novel Hang Him When He Is Not There has sold into the UK and Ireland to Birmingham-based small press Splice. UK and Irish...

Friday, 25 May 2018
Transit Lounge has acquired Amra Pajalic’s memoir, Things Nobody Knows But Me. Transit Lounge publisher Barry Scott told Books+Publishing the ‘beautifully written’ memoir was ‘a tender, funny and searingly honest story of...

Tuesday, 22 May 2018
Melbourne-based independent publisher Transit Lounge has sold world English-language rights (ex-ANZ) to Jane Rawson's 2017 novel From the Wreck. Picador UK associate publisher Ravi Mirchandani acquired rights to the literary speculative-fiction...

Monday, 21 May 2018
Melbourne-based writer Les Zig’s literary novel Just Another Week in Suburbia (Pantera) has been optioned for film by Australian production company Truce Films. Zig signed the deal last month with...

Tuesday, 15 May 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired Sydney teenager Vivian Pham's debut adult novel, The Coconut Children. Negotiated by Benython Oldfield from Zeitgeist Agency, the deal came after a ‘heated’ auction...

Monday, 14 May 2018
Dervla McTiernan’s debut crime novel The Ruin (HarperCollins) has been optioned for film by Australian film production company Hopscotch Features. Curtis Brown agent Tara Wynne negotiated the deal directly with...