PRH acquires ‘No Spin’ by Shane Warne
Friday, 15 June 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) will publish Australian cricketer Shane Warne’s memoir No Spin in Australia and the UK. The publisher said the memoir will cover the bowler’s ‘extraordinary cricketing career and...
‘The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree’ sells in US and UK
Wednesday, 9 May 2018
Wild Dingo Press has sold North American and UK rights to Shokoofeh Azar’s Stella Prize-shortlisted The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree. US and UK rights were sold to Europa Editions, in...
Brow Books acquires ‘The Impossible Fairytale’ in new co-publishing agreement with Tilted Axis Press
Thursday, 12 April 2018
Brow Books has acquired The Impossible Fairytale by Han Yujoo, translated from the Korean by Janet Hong, as the first title to come out of a new co-publishing agreement with...
Text sells North American rights to ‘The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted’
Thursday, 8 March 2018
Text Publishing has sold North American rights to Robert Hillman’s novel The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted to Putnam and Penguin Canada ‘for a significant sum’. Hillman’s book, which follows the lives...
Controversial delayed China book finds publisher
Thursday, 8 February 2018
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights to Clive Hamilton’s book on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) influence in Australia. Silent Invasion explores how CCP agencies have sought to extend...
Small press scores big rights sale
Thursday, 9 November 2017
The recently launched small press Brow Books has sold world rights to Shaun Prescott’s (pictured) debut novel The Town to Faber, which will publish the novel in the UK in...
‘Page-turning small-town mystery’ sold into nine territories
Wednesday, 11 October 2017
Affirm Press has sold the rights to Christian White’s ‘page-turning small-town mystery’ The Nowhere Child, previously called Decay Theory, into nine overseas territories. White’s novel won this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary...
S&S Australia selects ‘sweeping literary novel’ to launch Scribner Australia imprint
Thursday, 14 September 2017
Simon & Schuster Australia will launch the literary imprint Scribner in Australia and New Zealand in 2018 with a new novel by Kristina Olsson (pictured), author of the award-winning Boy,...
Screen rights optioned to Hannah Kent’s ‘The Good People’
Tuesday, 8 August 2017
Australian production company Aquarius Films has optioned the film and TV rights to Hannah Kent’s The Good People (Picador) via Curtis Brown Australia. Aquarius producers said they were ‘absolutely thrilled...
New acquisitions for Affirm, Black Inc. and Pantera
Thursday, 6 July 2017
Affirm Press has acquired Australian writer Christian White’s award-winning debut novel Decay Theory—‘a page-turner about a small-town mystery dealing with trauma, cult and memory’—to be published in 2018. White’s novel...
