Ultimo acquires Wolhuter novel
Tuesday, 24 October 2023
Ultimo Press has acquired Louise Wolhuter’s novel Shadows of Winter Robins. The novel follows Winter Robins, a young child from the north of England who’s sent to live in Western...
Ultimo acquires book on doomed 1910 South Pole expedition
Friday, 20 October 2023
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights to Harrison Christian's new book, Terra Nova, from Vicki Marsdon at High Spot Literary. Christian draws on fresh documents to examine the circumstances of...
S&S acquires Callahan’s yoga book
Wednesday, 18 October 2023
Simon & Schuster has acquired world rights to Growing with Grace by Simone Callahan. A Melbourne-based yoga teacher, Callahan shares her insights on how yoga has been instrumental in ‘embracing...
Affirm acquires Hills novel
Tuesday, 17 October 2023
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to the novel The Desert Knows Her Name by Lia Hills, via InkWell Management. The Desert Knows Her Name revolves around a girl who...
How to Be Remembered to be adapted to film
Thursday, 12 October 2023
Michael Thompson’s novel How to Be Remembered (A&U) will be adapted as a feature film by MRC Film in the US. According to Deadline, the novel will be adapted for...
‘The Sitter’ rights sold, awarded Joan C Bell Prize
Thursday, 12 October 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold North American rights to Angela O’Keeffe’s latest novel, The Sitter, to Jim Gauer at Zerogram, in a deal brokered by UQP rights and...
Affirm Press acquires Duckor-Jones coming-of-age novel
Thursday, 12 October 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Max, a coming-of-age novel by Avi Duckor-Jones, via Jane Novak Literary Agency. The titular protagonist is ‘grappling with questions about his birth parents and...
Larrikin House acquires two graphic novels
Tuesday, 10 October 2023
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to two graphic novels set for release in 2024. One title is Ultra Violet by Cristy Burne, illustrated by Rebel Challenger, which ‘follows Violet, a science...
Hachette acquires Blakiston and Hawkins nonfiction debut
Tuesday, 10 October 2023
Hachette has acquired ANZ rights to Make It Make Sense, a debut nonfiction book from Shit You Should Care About (SYSCA) writers Lucy Blakiston and Bel Hawkins, via Abigail Bergstrom...
HarperCollins acquires Wilson memoir
Thursday, 5 October 2023
HarperCollins has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to actor Rebel Wilson’s memoir Rebel Rising, via Matilda Forbes Watson at WME, reports the Bookseller. HarperCollins UK managing director and publisher Sarah...
Affirm acquires Brissenden novel
Thursday, 5 October 2023
Affirm has acquired ANZ rights to Smoke, a new crime thriller from journalist Michael Brissenden, via Shane Salerno and Daniel Pilkington of The Story Factory. The publisher described Smoke as...
HarperCollins signs Rogers follow-up in two-book deal
Thursday, 5 October 2023
HarperCollins Publishers Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a new novel, The Anatomy of Tears, from Megan Rogers—author of The Heart Is a Star—in a two-book deal brokered by Benython...
Europa Editions acquires new Azar novel
Tuesday, 3 October 2023
Europa Editions has acquired world rights to a new novel by Iranian-Australian author and journalist Shokoofeh Azar, via Europa editor in chief Michael Reynolds, in a deal brokered by Victoria...
Drama series inspired by ‘Fake’ to screen next year
Tuesday, 3 October 2023
An eight-part drama series inspired by journalist Stephanie Wood’s 2019 nonfiction book Fake (Penguin) will screen on Paramount+ in 2024. Fake has been created for TV by screenwriter Anya Beyersdorf and...
ABC Books acquires Georgiadis children’s gardening book series
Wednesday, 27 September 2023
ABC Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Children’s Books, has acquired four picture books by Costa Georgiadis, host of ABC TV’s Gardening Australia and Gardening Australia Junior, and illustrator Brenna Quinlan....
Fourth Estate acquires Morton’s book on robodebt
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
HarperCollins Australia imprint Fourth Estate has acquired world rights to a new nonfiction book from Rick Morton: Mean Streak: A moral vacuum, a dodgy debt generator and a multi-billion government...
Transit Lounge acquires Jung novel
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to My Name Is Gucci, a second novel from Sun Jung. Publisher Barry Scott describes My Name Is Gucci as ‘a charming novel about...
UWAP acquires Steed’s third book
Monday, 25 September 2023
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Laurie Steed’s third book, short story collection Greater City Shadows. Greater City Shadows previously won the 2021 Henry Handel Richardson flagship fellowship for...
Rockpool acquires Forsyth’s oracle deck
Friday, 22 September 2023
Rockpool Publishing has acquired world rights to Kate Forsyth’s Fairy Tale Wisdom Oracle. Forsyth’s first oracle deck will ‘spin together myth, folklore and history in new and surprising ways’. The deck...
HarperCollins acquires Serong novel
Thursday, 21 September 2023
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to Jock Serong's novel Cherrywood, in an auction brokered by Melanie Ostell of Melanie Ostell Literary. The publisher called the novel ‘an imaginative delight', and...
NewSouth acquires Jacobson memoir
Thursday, 21 September 2023
NewSouth has acquired world rights to How to Knit a Human, a memoir from poet, writer and artist Anna Jacobson. Described by the publisher as a lyrical memoir about ‘Jacobson’s...
Upswell acquires Dominic Gordon debut
Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights to Excitable Boy: Essays on risk, a debut book of essays by Melbourne writer Dominic Gordon. The publisher said that the book 'tracks the...
Affirm acquires King debut novel
Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Birds of a Feather, a debut novel from Rhianna King, via Rochelle Fernandez of Alex Adsett Literary. Described by Fernandez as ‘a gorgeously...
Ultimo acquires Goode debut novel
Monday, 18 September 2023
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights to Melissa Goode’s debut novel Ordinary Human Love. Ordinary Human Love follows Mardi McKee, prodigal daughter, who returns to her father’s home in Lithgow...
Ultimo acquires new Snoekstra novel
Friday, 15 September 2023
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to The Ones We Love by Anna Snoekstra, after rights were pre-empted in the US and the UK by Dutton, a division of Penguin...
Ultimo acquires Chandran novel
Wednesday, 13 September 2023
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Safe Haven, the new novel from the winner of the 2023 Miles Franklin award, Shankari Chandran, via Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown Australia....
Mariner Books acquires ‘The Shortest History of Economics’
Wednesday, 13 September 2023
Peter Hubbard at Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins US, has acquired North American rights to The Shortest History of Economics (Andrew Leigh, Black Inc.) at auction. The deal was...
Big Sky acquires Blum memoir
Tuesday, 12 September 2023
Big Sky Publishing has acquired world rights to the memoir Easy Target: Battling the black dog by Adam Blum. In the book, Blum shares his battle with bullying and health...
Affirm acquires Downes novel
Thursday, 7 September 2023
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to thriller Red River Road, the third novel from Anna Downes, via Tara Wynne of Curtis Brown. Set along the Western Australian Coral Coast,...
Scribe acquires ‘When Cops Are Criminals’ essay collection, Gorrie to edit
Wednesday, 6 September 2023
Scribe has acquired world rights to When Cops Are Criminals, a new essay collection edited by Veronica Gorrie. This ‘powerful and provocative’ anthology will include contributors’ ‘experiences, whether personal or...
