MidnightSun signs first international rights deals
Monday, 6 July 2015
Adelaide-based small press MidnightSun Publishing has signed its first three international rights deals.The publisher has sold US rights to Amanda Hickie’s thriller An Ordinary Epidemic to Little, Brown in a...
Canongate acquires rights to Nick Cave title
Monday, 23 March 2015
Canongate has acquired the rights to a new book by musician Nick Cave The Sick Bag Song will be published on 8 April and will be sold online-only from a dedicated...
HarperCollins acquires rights to Tim Cahill autobiography
Tuesday, 17 February 2015
HarperCollins has acquired the rights to the autobiography of Australian soccer player Tim Cahill.Cahill has played over 80 games for Australia and is the country’s top goal scorer, including five World Cup goals....
HarperCollins acquires memoir by Rosie Batty
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
HarperCollins has announced it has acquired world rights to a memoir by Rosie Batty. Rosie’s Story, written with Bryce Corbett, will be published in late 2015. ‘We see Rosie’s Story as...
Hachette acquires self-published children’s fantasy-adventure series
Friday, 21 November 2014
Hachette Australia has acquired a self-published children’s fantasy-adventure series from Brisbane brother and sister Nicholas and Alison Lochel.The four-book ‘Zarkora’ series ‘is the story of brothers Neleik and Ervine Fyrelit,...
A&U acquires novel on F Scott Fitzgerald
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...
A&U acquires new novel from US-based Australian author
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...
Bertelsmann to acquire Relias Learning
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
Multinational media company Bertelsmann will acquire US elearning provider Relias Learning, reports the Bookseller. Bertelsmann said in a statement that it will spend ‘in the mid-hundreds of millions’ of US...
A&U acquires ‘Cliff Hardy’ backlist
Monday, 13 October 2014
Allen & Unwin has bought the rights to 16 out-of-print titles from Peter Corris’ ‘Cliff Hardy’ series, and will publish the titles in December.A spokesperson for Allen & Unwin told...
Picador acquires debut by award-winning screenwriter
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...
Bloomsbury Spark acquires first Australian novel
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...
HarperCollins acquires 24-year-old author’s debut in three-book deal
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...
Text acquires YA novel by Currie
Monday, 8 September 2014
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to a YA novel by Christopher Currie. The publisher described the book as ‘a YA novel of distinction, with a memorable young lesbian narrator’....
Scribe acquires crime thrillers
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...
Madman acquires film rights to ‘Quota’
Wednesday, 27 August 2014
Film rights to Quota by Jock Serong (Text) have been optioned by Madman. ‘We are delighted that Madman has optioned Jock Serong’s acclaimed debut Quota, and look forward to working closely...
Penguin acquires debut novel from Hayes
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...
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