Ultimo acquires Kassab’s ‘Australiana’ in two-book deal
3 August 2021
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights to two books by Yumna Kassab, in a deal brokered by Martin Shaw from Shaw Literary. Drawing from Kassab’s time teaching in rural Australia,...
McIntosh’s DCI Jack Hawksworth series optioned for TV
2 August 2021
Fremantle Australia has acquired the exclusive screen rights to Fiona McIntosh's DCI Jack Hawksworth crime series. The series consists of the novels Bye Bye Baby, Beautiful Death and Mirror Man, which...
UQP acquires Fraillon’s middle-grade novel ‘The Way of Dog’
30 July 2021
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Zana Fraillon’s ‘inventive’ middle-grade novel The Way of Dog. Told in verse from the perspective of a dog called...
Affirm acquires Levin manifestation guide ‘Make YOU Happen’
30 July 2021
Affirm has acquired personal development title Make YOU Happen: Figure out who you are, what you need (and why you already have it) by Jordanna Levin. A sequel to Levin’s...
PRH acquires Chadderton middle-grade graphic novel
29 July 2021
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired world rights to the contemporary middle-grade graphic novel Oh, Brother by Adelaide author-illustrator Georgina Chadderton. Rights were acquired in a joint deal between PRH...
Wakefield acquires Bellamy memoir ‘that perfectly suits our times’
23 July 2021
Wakefield Press has acquired world rights to a memoir about mental illness, queerness and Jewish identity by Archer online editor Roz Bellamy. Mood, which was longlisted for the Kill Your...
Affirm acquires Cox’s ‘So Many Beats of the Heart’
22 July 2021
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a novel by Perth-based journalist Carrie Cox via Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management. So Many Beats of the Heart is ‘a wonderfully...
S&S acquires two McAlister rom-coms
22 July 2021
Simon & Schuster Australia has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to two adult novels by Jodi McAlister, author of the YA series 'Valentine', via Alex Adsett from Alex Adsett Literary....
PRH acquires Yu debut novel and essay collection
20 July 2021
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired Australian rights to a debut novel and collection of essays from Jessica Zhan Mei Yu, in a four-way auction. The deal was struck between...
Ultimo acquires inside account of Tour de France
20 July 2021
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights for Inside Le Tour, an inside account of the Tour de France from sports journalist Sophie Smith. Inside Le Tour 'will bridge the gap...
ABC Kids to publish Teeny Tiny Stevies picture books
19 July 2021
HarperCollins Children’s Books has acquired world rights to two picture books by children's music duo Teeny Tiny Stevies, to be published under the ABC Kids imprint. Teeny Tiny Stevies is...
A&U acquires Lukins’ ‘Loveland’
19 July 2021
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to a new novel by Robert Lukins, from Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary, in a ‘heated auction’. Loveland was acquired by...
UQP acquires Gíslason’s ‘The Sorrow Stone’
15 July 2021
UQP has acquired world rights to The Sorrow Stone by Kári Gíslason, co-author of Saga Land (with Richard Fidler, ABC Books). Set against the backdrop of medieval Norway and Iceland, The...
UQP sells ‘The White Girl’ to HarperVia
14 July 2021
UQP has sold world English rights (ex ANZ) for The White Girl by Tony Birch to HarperCollins imprint HarperVia. The deal was handled by UQP rights manager Kate McCormack in...
‘Ginnie & Pinney, Learn & Grow’ series optioned for TV
7 July 2021
Big Sky Publishing’s educational children's series Ginnie & Pinney, Learn & Grow has been optioned for development as a television series by Australian animation studio Moody Street Productions. Created by...
Hachette acquires Yarwood debut in two-book deal
30 June 2021
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Sydney author Dianne Yarwood’s debut novel The Wakes in a 'hotly contested' international auction. The six-figure, two-book deal was struck with Catherine Drayton...
Ultimo acquires Jafari debut ‘Forty Nights’
29 June 2021
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Pirooz Jafari’s literary fiction debut Forty Nights, in a deal brokered by Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary. Forty Nights is a novel...
Affirm acquires Berry’s ‘Fearlessly Failing’
28 June 2021
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to nutritionist and podcast host Lola Berry’s new personal development book Fearlessly Failing. Affirm said Fearlessly Failing is ‘a guide to embracing challenges and...
Black Inc. acquires Clode’s book on ‘the hidden life of koalas’
25 June 2021
Black Inc. has acquired world rights to biologist and natural history author Danielle Clode’s new book on ‘the hidden life of koalas’, via Jenny Darling & Associates. Black Inc. publisher...
Transit Lounge acquires Howell debut
24 June 2021
Transit Lounge has acquired world English rights to Adriane Howell's debut novel Hydra, via Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. The novel’s protagonist is Anja, a disgraced antiquarian who comes to...
NewSouth acquires Kamenev’s ‘Kin’
23 June 2021
NewSouth has acquired ANZ rights to Kin: Family in the 21st century by journalist Marina Kamenev via Melanie Ostell Literary. In Kin, Kamenev will investigate how traditional ideas of family...
D&Q to publish Ang short story collection, graphic novel
23 June 2021
Canadian publisher Drawn & Quarterly (D&Q) has acquired world rights (ex ANZ) to two books by Melbourne-based cartoonist Rachel Ang, via Danielle Binks of Jacinta Dimase Management. The first book,...
Affirm signs first debut from Sweatshop mentorship
22 June 2021
Affirm Press has acquired a debut novel by Shirley Le, the first book to be acquired through the Affirm Press Mentorship for Sweatshop Writers. Le, a Vietnamese-Australian writer from Yagoona,...
‘Fight Like a Girl’ to be adapted for TV
22 June 2021
Aquarius Films has acquired all development and production rights to Clementine Ford’s nonfiction book Fight Like a Girl (A&U), in a deal negotiated by Jacinta Dimase at Jacinta Dimase Management....
Welbeck Flame acquires five-book ‘Hedgewitch’ series
17 June 2021
Welbeck Flame, the children’s imprint of UK publisher Welbeck Publishing Group, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (ex Canada) to a five-book middle-grade series by debut Australian author Sky McKenna,...
Ultimo Press acquires Coyle debut novel in two-book deal
11 June 2021
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights for two books by debut novelist Zoë Coyle, in a deal brokered by Jeanne Ryckmans of Cameron’s Management. Where the Light Gets In is...
HarperCollins acquires Funnell’s ‘Let Her Speak’
8 June 2021
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Let Her Speak by investigative journalist Nina Funnell. Let Her Speak traces the stories of sexual assault survivors across Australia as they work to...
Scribner acquires Ballard’s ‘I, Millennial’
7 June 2021
Simon & Schuster has acquired I, Millennial: One snowflake’s screed against plague, boomers, billionaires & everything else by comedian Tom Ballard, to be published under its Scribner imprint. The publisher...
HarperCollins acquires ‘This Is Not A Book About Benedict Cumberbatch’
4 June 2021
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to This Is Not A Book About Benedict Cumberbatch, an ‘irrepressibly clever and uplifting book about the role of joy in women’s lives’ by...
UQP acquires Haddad debut novel ‘Losing Face’
3 June 2021
UQP has acquired world rights to Losing Face, the debut novel by Sydney writer George Haddad. Losing Face interweaves the stories of Joey, who has recently finished school and is...
