Monday, 22 September 2025
Australia is set to star in a number of screen adaptations as international and local producers tap into talent down under.  Brad Pitt is set to star as protagonist Fred...

Monday, 22 September 2025
See what Australian publishers have been signing recently in children's and YA. Picture books: First Nations storytelling, a sausage dog, cooking and phonics  University of Western Australia Publishing (UWA Publishing)...

Friday, 19 September 2025
Among the new Australian fiction and poetry titles signed this year are books from familiar names, debut works, titles signed at competitive auctions, and a range of romcoms. Fiction Familiar...

Friday, 19 September 2025
Moving memoir, politics, cooking, sport and true crime – read all about Australian publishers’ recent nonfiction acquisitions. Memoir  Kicking off memoir acquisitions is Allen & Unwin (A&U), which has shared...

Tuesday, 4 March 2025
With Australia’s independent publisher count recently dropping significantly – thanks to the acquisitions of Pantera Press by Hardie Grant and Text Publishing by Penguin Random House following hot on the...

Thursday, 26 September 2024
Among the new Australian fiction signed this year are books from familiar names, debut works, manuscript prize winners, titles signed at competitive auctions, and a good dose of romantasy. Fiction...

Thursday, 26 September 2024
First Nations reportage, moving memoir, cooking, sport and Drag Queens Down Under—read all about Australian publishers’ recent nonfiction acquisitions. S&S imprint Scribner Australia has acquired ANZ and UK rights to...

Thursday, 26 September 2024
See what Australian publishers have been signing recently in children's and YA. Animals Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired rights to Bindi Irwin’s debut picture book, titled You Are a...

Tuesday, 3 October 2023
Christmas Press has acquired world rights to Leaf Letters, a junior fiction title by author-illustrator Lorena Carrington. Christmas Press publishing director Sophie Masson said, ‘Told in words and pictures, this...

Tuesday, 3 October 2023
Among recent book to screen adaptations, Cognito Entertainment, a new independent film and television production company in the United States, has optioned Every Version of You (Grace Chan, Affirm) for...

Tuesday, 3 October 2023
Among the new fiction signed by Australian publishers this year are books by several authors trying something new. Echo has acquired world rights to Katrina Kell’s first novel for adults,...

Tuesday, 3 October 2023
Hachette Australia announced last year that it would enter a publishing scout partnership with screenwriter, author and broadcaster Benjamin Law. The results are now materialising, with adult nonfiction publisher Sophie...

Thursday, 6 April 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to the debut nonfiction work by journalist and activist Melinda Ham, via Rochelle Fernandez of Alex Adsett Literary. The Lucky Ones is about refugees...

Thursday, 6 April 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to One Divine Night by Mick Cummins, the winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award (VPLA) for an unpublished manuscript, in a deal brokered...

Thursday, 6 April 2023
Fiction sales Black Inc. has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to One Hundred Days by Alice Pung to HarperCollins imprint HarperVia. Shortlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award, One Hundred Days is Pung’s...

Thursday, 6 April 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a new five-book series by Amelia Mellor as well as the third novel in Mellor’s series that began with The Grandest Bookshop in the...