Hachette acquires two crime novels from Papathanasiou
Wednesday, 19 February 2025
MacLehose Press, an imprint of Hachette imprint Quercus, has acquired world rights to two new crime novels by Peter Papathanasiou in a deal brokered by Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary....
Summit Books acquires new Lee fiction
Wednesday, 19 February 2025
Simon & Schuster (S&S) imprint Summit Books has acquired ANZ rights to Bri Lee’s second novel, Seed, from agent Grace Heifetz at a4 Literary. The novel introduces Mitchell and Frances,...
Atlantic acquires Stephens debut
Tuesday, 18 February 2025
Atlantic Books Australia, a division of Allen & Unwin (A&U), has acquired ANZ rights to Clare Stephens’s debut novel The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Done, in a deal brokered by...
Keeperton to publish five TL Swan books
Monday, 17 February 2025
Arndell, an imprint of Keeperton, has announced it will publish worldwide print editions of The Miles High Club series by author and Keeperton founder TL Swan. The series consists of...
A&U acquires new historical fiction from Rose
Wednesday, 12 February 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to A Great Act of Love by Heather Rose, via Gaby Naher of the Naher Agency. US rights have sold to Judy Clain...
Affirm acquires Johnson debut ‘King Tide’
Tuesday, 11 February 2025
Affirm has acquired ANZ rights to the debut crime novel King Tide by Luke Johnson, via literary agent Daniel Pilkington. Described by the publisher as a ‘beautiful, exhilarating and exquisitely...
S&S acquires Morgan’s fiction debut
Thursday, 6 February 2025
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to Rachael Morgan’s commercial women’s fiction debut, in a deal between S&S commercial fiction publisher Cassandra Di Bello and Anjanette Fennell...
Pink Shorts Press acquires works by De Zilva, Cothren
Wednesday, 5 February 2025
New publishing venture Pink Shorts Press has announced its first acquisitions of new titles. The press, which plans to release books twice a year (March and August), previously announced it...
Hardie Grant Books acquires Nat Thaipun cookbook
Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world print and ebook rights to Thai: Anywhere and Everywhere, the debut cookbook from MasterChef Australia 2024 winner Nat Thaipun, through Ben Liebmann of Understory....
UQP sells rights to ‘Edenglassie’ to Oneworld
Wednesday, 29 January 2025
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold world English (ex ANZ) and audio rights to Melissa Lucashenko’s Edenglassie to Oneworld Publications. The deal was struck between UQP rights and contacts...
Ulverscroft acquires Astley’s 1962 Miles Franklin winner
Tuesday, 21 January 2025
Ulverscroft has acquired world rights to Thea Astley’s 1962 novel The Well Dressed Explorer and will publish large-print and audiobook editions in 2025 to mark the centenary of the author’s...
HarperVia acquires two Tsao novels
Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Alexa Frank at HarperVia has acquired world English rights to two novels by 2023 PEN Translation Prize winner Tiffany Tsao, in a pre-empt deal from Daniel Lazar at Writers House...
Riveted Press acquires middle-grade fantasy trilogy
Friday, 10 January 2025
Riveted Press has acquired worldwide rights to the middle-grade fantasy series Farwood by Jayne McIntyre, in a three-book deal via Debbie Golvan at Golvan Arts Management. The first book in...
Hardie Grant Books acquires ‘Silk Silver Opium’
Thursday, 12 December 2024
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world print, ebook and audio rights to Silk Silver Opium: The Trade with China that Changed History by writer and historian Michael Pembroke, in a...
UQP acquires Jacobs, Natt picture book for adults
Thursday, 12 December 2024
UQP has acquired world rights to a satirical picture book for adults, titled If Queers Weren’t Meant to Have Kids, by Narelda Jacobs and Karina Natt, to be illustrated by...
WeirDo, Wolf Girl to be adapted to screen
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Two Anh Do series, WeirDo (Scholastic) and Wolf Girl (A&U), are being adapted to screen, reports the Age. The WeirDo series is being turned into a television series in partnership...
UQP sells world English rights to ‘Someone Like Me’
Wednesday, 11 December 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold world English (ex ANZ) rights to Someone Like Me: An Anthology of Nonfiction by Autistic Writers (co-edited by Clem Bastow & Jo Case)...
UQP sells Sakr, Ahmed poetry to US and UK
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold North American and UK rights to The Nightmare Sequence, a collection of illustrated poetry by Omar Sakr and Safdar Ahmed, to Nightboat Books...
A&U acquires Starford novel
Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Rebecca Starford’s novel The Visitor, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown Australia. In The Visitor, ‘a woman returns...
Fremantle Australia options Jennings works for new series
Monday, 9 December 2024
Fremantle Australia has optioned the rights to a range of works from local author Paul Jennings for development of a ‘deliciously frightful’ television series. In a writing career spanning about...
Storm acquires seven McIntosh novels
Thursday, 5 December 2024
Digital-first publishing house Storm has acquired world English language rights (ex ANZ) to seven novels by Fiona McIntosh, via Lisa Highton at Jenny Brown Associates. Acquired titles include The Orphans,...
S&S acquires Gould memoir
Thursday, 5 December 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to a memoir by paramedic Sally Gould, with the working title Frog: A Memoir of Life and Death on the Frontline,...
Affirm acquires Valentish self-help book
Wednesday, 4 December 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to self-help book The Introvert’s Guide to Leaving the House by Jenny Valentish. A Melbourne-based journalist and author, Valentish wrote the addiction memoir Woman...
A&U acquires ‘History’s Strangest Deaths’
Tuesday, 3 December 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to History’s Strangest Deaths by Riley Knight, in a deal brokered by Florence Dodd at WME Agency, UK. ‘[History’s Strangest Deaths] highlights the...
HarperCollins acquires Guthrie debut novel
Tuesday, 3 December 2024
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to Sam Guthrie’s debut novel, The Compromised. HarperCollins Australia head of fiction Catherine Milne acquired the book from Tom Gilliatt at a4 Literary. UK rights...
Transit Lounge acquires Colley’s second novel
Monday, 2 December 2024
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Brendan Colley’s second novel, The Season for Flying Saucers, via Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. ‘I love the way Brendan Colley captures the strange in...
UWA Publishing acquires Inak children’s series
Thursday, 28 November 2024
UWA Publishing has acquired ANZ rights to children’s series The Cockatoo Crew by Lora Inak, in a four-book deal, via Danielle Binks at Jacinta Dimase Management. Illustrated by Kruti Desai,...
Affirm Press acquires Louise picture-book series
Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to six books in the picture-book series Handbooks for Little Humans by Zanni Louise, in a deal between Simon & Schuster and Affirm children’s...
Summit Books acquires Nelson short fiction collection
Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Simon & Schuster imprint Summit Books has acquired ANZ rights to the debut short fiction collection Wait Here by Lucy Nelson, via Martin Shaw Literary. Each of the stories in...
Hardie Grant acquires Baker-Finch biography
Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world print, ebook and audiobook rights to the authorised biography Ian Baker-Finch: To Hell and Back by Geoff Saunders. In the book, Saunders has charted the...
