Black Inc. sells ‘See What You Made Me Do’ to US in auction
20 August 2019
Black Inc. has sold North American rights to Jess Hill’s nonfiction book See What You Made Me Do to Sourcebooks in a two-house auction. Released in Australia last month, See...
Text acquires ANZ rights to Booker-longlisted ‘Ducks, Newburyport’
15 August 2019
Text Publishing has acquired ANZ rights to Lucy Ellmann’s Booker-longlisted novel Ducks, Newburyport, published in the UK by Galley Beggar Press. The novel, comprised of only eight sentences, follows an...
‘The Girl on the Page’ film rights acquired
9 August 2019
Sydney-based production company Causeway Films has acquired the film rights to John Purcell’s The Girl on the Page (HarperCollins), via Simone Camilleri of Green Ink Agency. Set in the UK in the...
HarperCollins to publish Ellyse Perry’s ‘Perspective’
9 August 2019
HarperCollins will publish Australian cricketer and soccer player Ellyse Perry’s debut nonfiction book Perspective in November 2019. HarperCollins said Perry’s ‘inspiring’ and ‘heavily illustrated’ title will feature ‘stories and reflections from her...
A&U to publish Rodda’s new junior fiction series
6 August 2019
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired a new three-book junior fiction series by Emily Rodda. The Monty’s Island series, which is illustrated by Lucinda Gifford, is aimed at children aged...
Book-to-screen adaptations pitched at 2019 Books at MIFF
2 August 2019
The 13th annual Books at MIFF (BaM) event, run by Melbourne International Film Festival’s 37º South Market, was held at Melbourne’s Forum Theatre on 1 August. Representatives from publishing and...
UWAP acquires On’s poetry collection ‘Turbulence’
2 August 2019
The UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Thuy On’s debut poetry collection Turbulence. ‘It’s a really surprising first book by a sharp poetic mind with an acute sensibility...
‘Too Much Lip’ optioned for screen adaptation
1 August 2019
Melissa Lucashenko’s Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning novel Too Much Lip (UQP) has been optioned for screen by production company Cenozoic Pictures. The deal, which was negotiated by Lucashenko’s agent Alex...
Disher’s ‘Bitter Wash Road’ optioned for screen
30 July 2019
Producers Helen Leake and Gena Ashwell of Adelaide-based production company Dancing Road Productions have optioned the screen rights to Garry Disher’s Bitter Wash Road (Text), via Jenny Darling & Associates. First published in 2013,...
PRH acquires debut thriller in two-book deal
26 July 2019
Penguin Random House Australia has acquired world rights to Tasmanian author Kyle Perry’s crime/suspense thriller debut, The Bluffs, in a two-book deal with the Nash Agency. Set in the Tasmanian...
Wakefield sells debut YA novel to US
23 July 2019
Wakefield Press has sold world rights (ex ANZ) to debut novel Making Friends with Alice Dyson (Poppy Nwosu) to Walker Books US for a five-figure sum. Wakefield publisher Margot Lloyd...
Hachette acquires VPLA winner in ‘competitive’ auction
17 July 2019
Hachette has acquired ANZ rights to Victorian Premier’s unpublished manuscript prize-winner Kokomo by Victoria Hannan in a two-book deal. Hachette head of literary Robert Watkins acquired rights from Pippa Masson...
‘Axiomatic’ sold to UK’s Fitzcarraldo Editions
12 July 2019
Brow Books has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) to Maria Tumarkin’s Axiomatic to independent publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions. Publisher Jacques Testard acquired the book, and Fitzcarraldo will publish Axiomatic...
HarperCollins to publish ‘electrifying’ debut novel; UK, film rights sold
10 July 2019
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to Melbourne author and playwright Gabriel Bergmoser’s 'electrifying' debut adult novel, The Hunted, in a two-book deal via Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown Australia. UK...
A&U acquires ‘fierce’ literary debut
10 July 2019
Jane Palfreyman at Allen & Unwin has acquired ANZ rights to literary fiction debut A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing by Jessie Tu, via Melanie Ostell Literary. The novel...
Black Inc. to publish ‘creative’ Thunberg bio; sells rights to S&S UK
9 July 2019
Black Inc. has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to a ‘creative biography’ of climate change activist Greta Thunberg to Simon & Schuster Children’s UK. Pitched at middle-grade readers, Greta’s...
McIver’s debut sold to Hachette AU and Tinder Press UK
8 July 2019
Hachette Australia and UK publisher Tinder Press (part of the Hachette Livre UK Group) have jointly acquired rights to Ruth McIver’s debut novel I Shot the Devil, via Jacinta di...
Amazon Prime to adapt Sutherland’s ‘Our Chemical Hearts’ for film
5 July 2019
Krystal Sutherland’s YA novel Our Chemical Hearts (Penguin) is being adapted for film by Amazon Studios for the Amazon Prime streaming service. The film, titled Chemical Hearts, is written and directed by...
Brio to publish new Dessaix book on ageing
5 July 2019
Brio has acquired ANZ rights to a new nonfiction book by Robert Dessaix, The Time of Our Lives: Growing old well, via Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management. Brio said...
Hachette acquires middle-grade, YA novels by Binks
5 July 2019
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a middle-grade novel, The Year the Maps Changed, and a yet to be titled YA novel by literary agent Danielle Binks. The two-book...
Five Mile sells UK, US and Canadian rights to Love Your Body
3 July 2019
Five Mile has sold UK, US and Canadian rights to Jessica Sanders’ picture book Love Your Body (illus by Carol Rossetti) to the Quarto Group. With the latest deal, made...
A&U acquires local rights to C S Pacat YA trilogy
2 July 2019
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to C S Pacat’s YA trilogy ‘Dark Rise’. In the trilogy, which is set in an alternate London, ‘the heroes and villains...
Black Inc. sells Anna Krien’s forthcoming novel to UK
27 June 2019
Black Inc. has sold UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ and Canada) to Anna Krien’s debut novel Act of Grace (Black Inc., October) to Serpent’s Tail. Editor Hannah Westland acquired...
Hachette acquires local rights to debut thriller
26 June 2019
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Gold Coast-based author Allie Reynolds' debut novel Shiver, in partnership with Headline UK. Headline’s fiction publishing director Jennifer Doyle won a 10-way auction...
Dr Karl returns to ABC Books in three-book deal
26 June 2019
ABC Books has acquired three new books by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki in a deal negotiated by Jeanne Ryckmans of the Cameron Creswell Agency. The deal marks Kruszelnicki’s move back to...
‘A Room Called Earth’ sold to US, Canada
25 June 2019
North American rights to Victoria-based writer Madeleine Ryan's forthcoming debut novel A Room Called Earth have been sold to Penguin Random House USA imprint Penguin Press. Rights were sold by...
Scholastic acquires two books by Rove McManus
24 June 2019
Scholastic Australia has acquired world rights to two children’s books by TV personality Rove McManus. Scholastic will publish the picture book Disgusting McGrossface in September and Rocky Lobstar, the first...
A&U acquires rights to International Man Booker winner ‘Celestial Bodies’
21 June 2019
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Jokha Alharthi’s Celestial Bodies, winner of the 2019 International Man Booker Prize, from Claire Roberts at Claire Roberts Global Literary Mangement,...
Naher, Heifetz announce new literary agency
21 June 2019
Agents Gaby Naher of The Naher Agency and Grace Heifetz of Curtis Brown Australia have partnered to form a new literary agency called Left Bank Literary. Launching on 1 July...
Paramount acquires film rights to McKinty’s ‘The Chain’
20 June 2019
Paramount Pictures has acquired the film rights to Adrian McKinty’s forthcoming novel The Chain (Hachette, July), reports Deadline. Paramount executive Alex Jackson acquired the rights via Shane Salerno from The...
