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...
Stan adaptation of ‘Scrublands’ sold to BBC
Wednesday, 6 September 2023
A four-part adaptation of Scrublands (Chris Hammer, A&U) has been acquired by the BBC from Abacus Media Rights, which has international distribution rights for the series, and will screen on...
We Come With This Place sold to UK
Friday, 1 September 2023
Echo Publishing has sold UK and Commonwealth (ex ANZ) rights to Debra Dank’s We Come With This Place to Footnote Press. Earlier this year, We Come With This Place won...
Larrikin House acquires Larkin adult fiction novel
Friday, 1 September 2023
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to adult fiction novel The Bogan Book Club by John Larkin. Described by the publisher as a fun and heartfelt story about being an...
UQP acquires second novel from Siang Lu
Wednesday, 30 August 2023
UQP has acquired world rights to Siang Lu’s second novel, Ghost Cities, via Brendan Fredericks of BFredericksPR. Ghost Cities is ‘inspired by the vacant, uninhabited megacities of China’. Described by...
UQP sells North American rights to ‘Personal Score’
Monday, 28 August 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold North American rights to Ellen van Neerven’s nonfiction book Personal Score: Sport. Culture. Identity to Eric Obenauf at Ohio publisher Two Dollar Radio....
Transit Lounge acquires Hooper’s debut novel
Friday, 25 August 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Matthew Hooper’s debut novel A Cold Season. ‘This pitch-perfect novel is rich in voice, character and landscape and unlike anything I have read...
S&S acquires Di Lorenzo gut repair title in four-book deal
Friday, 25 August 2023
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to four new titles by nutritionist Sarah Di Lorenzo. The first book in the new deal will be a four-week gut repair...
NewSouth acquires Clift autobiographical novel
Thursday, 24 August 2023
NewSouth Publishing has acquired world rights to Charmian Clift’s unfinished novel The End of the Morning, via Jane Novak Literary Agency. The autobiographical novel about a young woman coming of...
Hachette acquires Terakes short story collection
Wednesday, 23 August 2023
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to a debut short story collection from Australian actor Zoe Terakes, to be titled Eros: Queer myths for lovers. The collection, which will feature...
Fremantle Press, Alphabet Soup Books to collaborate on new middle-grade poetry collection
Monday, 21 August 2023
Fremantle Press and Alphabet Soup Books will co-publish a collection of poetry for middle readers, Right Way Down and other poems. Alphabet Soup Books is a new independent publisher in...
HarperCollins signs Drysdale in two-book deal
Thursday, 17 August 2023
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to the novel Hollywood Night by Pip Drysdale in a two-book deal brokered by publisher Roberta Ivers with Mollie Glick at Creative Artists Agency....
Adaptations to share Screen Australia funding
Thursday, 17 August 2023
Two book adaptations are among 47 projects to share $1.2 million of story development funding from Screen Australia. Funding will go towards adaptations of Jessie Tu’s novel A Lonely Girl...
Pantera acquires Sharp nonfiction
Wednesday, 16 August 2023
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to Lost and Found: How to wander your way to a better life, a new nonfiction book by Tim Sharp, via Simone Landes at...
HarperCollins acquires Gorman nonfiction
Tuesday, 15 August 2023
HarperCollins Australia has acquired world rights to nonfiction work Flying Not Falling by Ginger Gorman, in a deal brokered by Jane Novak of Jane Novak Literary Agency. Flying Not Falling...
UQP to publish anthology by Autistic women and gender-diverse writers
Friday, 11 August 2023
UQP has acquired a new anthology of 25 personal essays from Autistic women and gender-diverse writers, to be co-edited by Autistic writers Jo Case and Clem Bastow and supported by...
Pantera acquires Price debut
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to Perfect Candidate, a debut work of nonfiction from Lucinda Price (also known as Froomes), via Claire Harrison at Creative Representation. Pantera Press described...
Ultimo acquires de Monchaux’s debut novel
Friday, 4 August 2023
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights to Annie de Monchaux's debut novel Audrey's Gone AWOL, via Sarah McKenzie at Sarah McKenzie literary management, which it describes as ‘a charming story...
‘The Idea of Australia’ to become doco
Thursday, 3 August 2023
A documentary series based on The Idea of Australia: A search for the soul of the nation (Julianne Schultz, A&U) has received funding from Screen Australia. The four-part SBS series...
Pantera acquires Glenn debut thriller in two-book deal
Thursday, 3 August 2023
Pantera Press has acquired world rights for Susannah Glenn’s Between Husbands and Wives, a ‘gripping’ domestic thriller set in Far North Queensland, in a two-book deal. Between Husbands and Wives...
Nash’s ‘All the Words We Know’ acquired by A&U, US rights to Atria in pre-empt
Wednesday, 2 August 2023
Allen & Unwin has acquired ANZ rights to All the Words We Know by Bruce Nash, with Simon & Schuster's Atria Books acquiring North American rights to the title in...
UQP acquires Figueroa Barroso debut
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
UQP has acquired world rights to debut novel Hailstones Fell without Rain by Natalia Figueroa Barroso. Hailstones Fell without Rain is a semi-autobiographical novel that focuses on the experiences of...
Sex: Two billion years of procreation and recreation optioned for television
Friday, 28 July 2023
The nonfiction book Sex: Two billion years of procreation and recreation (David Baker, Black Inc.) has been optioned by documentary producers Smith&Nasht for adaptation as a science television series, in a...
UWAP acquires debut novel by Tsokos Purtill
Wednesday, 26 July 2023
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Emily Tsokos Purtill’s debut novel Matia. Tsokos Purtill is a Western Australian writer of Greek heritage, who lives in Perth/Boorloo on the...
Hachette acquires new series from Buist and Simsion
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ and US rights to Out of the Blue by Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion in a two-book deal between the authors and Hachette’s head of...
Pantera acquires Matthiesson debut
Wednesday, 19 July 2023
Pantera Press has acquired ANZ rights to debut novel Together We Fall Apart by Sophie Matthiesson from Clare Forster at Curtis Brown. The publisher described the debut as 'a compelling...
UQP acquires creative nonfiction work by Holland-Batt
Monday, 17 July 2023
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired ANZ rights to an as yet untitled 'brave, moving work' of creative nonfiction from Stella Prize winner Sarah Holland-Batt, from Clare Forster...
Pantera acquires Daddo nonfiction book on confidence
Friday, 14 July 2023
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to a nonfiction book by actor, presenter and singer-songwriter Cameron Daddo via Cathy Baker at CMC Talent Management. Part memoir and part roadmap to...
‘Paper Cage’ sells to UK, US
Thursday, 13 July 2023
Rights to Michael Gifkins Prize-winning novel Paper Cage (Tom Baragwanath, Text) have been sold to the US and UK, reports the Bookseller. In the UK the book will be published...
Affirm signs Tuohy memoir
Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a memoir by AFL Geelong Cats defender Zach Tuohy, to be co-written by ABC sports journalist Catherine Murphy. Tuohy, who has played 120...
