Tuesday, 18 November 2014
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has signed a novel following the final years of The Great Gatsby author F Scott Fitzgerald, reports the Bookseller.A&U acquired UK, Commonwealth and ANZ rights to...

Thursday, 6 November 2014
Allen & Unwin has acquired Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) and UK/Commonwealth rights to Australian author Dominic Smith’s new novel At the Edge of a Wood.The US-based author’s previous novels...

Thursday, 2 October 2014
Pan Macmillan imprint Picador has announced it has acquired local rights to a debut novel by award-winning Australian screenwriter Shirley Barrett.Barrett’s scripts include Love Serenade and South Solitary. She has...

Monday, 29 September 2014
Bloomsbury Australia has acquired the first novel by an Australian to be published under its ebook-only Bloomsbury Spark imprint. Vanessa Barnevald’s young adult novel This is Your Afterlife is the...

Monday, 22 September 2014
HarperCollins has acquired a debut novel by Eliza Henry-Jones as part of a three-book deal.In the Quiet, acquired via the Calidris Literary Agency, is ‘a heart-breaking, tender and life-affirming novel...

Wednesday, 27 August 2014
Scribe has acquired world rights in two crime thrillers by Melbourne writer and librarian J M Green. Good Money was shortlisted in the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an...

Thursday, 21 August 2014
Penguin Random House has acquired ANZ rights to Antonia Hayes’ debut novel Relativity at auction.The publisher described the novel as ‘an irresistible story about science, love, unbreakable bonds and irreversible...