NewSouth acquires Janke’s ‘True Tracks’
27 October 2020
NewSouth has acquired world English-language rights to True Tracks: Working with Indigenous knowledge and culture by Terri Janke of law firm Terri Janke and Company. ‘For Indigenous people, arts, language...
Affirm acquires Stubbins memoir
27 October 2020
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Melbourne writer Sinéad Stubbins’s debut memoir In My Defence, I Have No Defence, via Danielle Binks and Jacinta of Jacinta di Mase Management...
Scribe to publish first graphic novel, acquires two more book-length comics
22 October 2020
Scribe Publishing has acquired world rights to two book-length comics: a work of graphic nonfiction by artist and organiser Sam Wallman, and a graphic novel written by Luke C Jackson...
Scribner acquires Lucy’s ‘Turns Out, I’m Fine’
20 October 2020
Scribner Australia has acquired ANZ rights to comedian Judith Lucy’s new book Turns Out, I’m Fine, from Kevin Whyte at Token Artists. ‘For a while, Judith didn’t know what this...
PRH acquires Edgar’s ‘The Coffin Confessor’
15 October 2020
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to The Coffin Confessor by ‘funeral crasher’ Bill Edgar. Edgar's memoir was acquired by PRH commissioning editor Brandon VanOver, who said...
HarperCollins acquires Benns’s ‘The Dying Diplomats’ Club’
14 October 2020
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to The Dying Diplomats’ Club, a ‘Nick and La Contessa novel’ written by the Daily Telegraph editor-at-large Matthew Benns. Benns began the serialised mystery novel Dangerous...
Morton to edit ‘Growing Up in Country Australia’
13 October 2020
Black Inc. has announced the latest addition to its 'Growing Up' nonfiction anthology series, Growing Up in Country Australia, to be edited by journalist Rick Morton. Morton is the Saturday Paper's...
Affirm acquires Rees children’s book
8 October 2020
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a children’s book by ABC children’s television presenter Jimmy 'Giggle' Rees, via Red Mgmt. Rees’s debut, to be illustrated by Briony Stewart, will...
Hachette acquires Wilson picture book series
7 October 2020
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a ‘funny and heartfelt’ picture book series by Australian comic actress Rebel Wilson. The ‘Bella the Brave’ series, to be published in hardback...
Black Inc. acquires Wear’s ‘Recovery’
5 October 2020
Black Inc. has acquired world rights to Recovery by Andrew Wear, via Jeanne Ryckmans at the Cameron Creswell Agency. Recovery, which follows on from Wear’s first book Solved!, will examine the calamities...
Affirm Press acquires Chatfield’s ‘So Let’s Unpack That’
2 October 2020
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to ‘feminist handbook’ So Let’s Unpack That by reality television star Abbie Chatfield, via her management, Stage Addiction. With the acronym ‘SLUT’, Chatfield’s book...
UQP acquires Thunig’s ‘Tell Me Again’
1 October 2020
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Indigenous academic, writer and media commentator Amy Thunig’s first book, Tell Me Again. UQP said the collection of essays...
Affirm acquires Bontempelli picture book
30 September 2020
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a children’s picture book by Western Bulldogs AFL player Marcus Bontempelli, via Tom Petroro of TLA. To be co-authored with Fiona Harris, the...
Pan Macmillan acquires Rushton’s ‘The Most Important Job in the World’
29 September 2020
Pan Macmillan has acquired ANZ rights to The Most Important Job in the World by journalist Gina Rushton. The book, a blend of reportage, memoir and essay exploring ‘the most pressing...
NewSouth acquires Gunaydin’s nonfiction debut
24 September 2020
NewSouth Publishing has acquired world rights to Sydney writer Eda Gunaydin’s debut nonfiction collection. Provisionally titled Root and Branch, the collection explores race, class, gender and violence and Turkish diaspora. The publisher...
Affirm acquires middle-grade fantasy series
23 September 2020
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a four-book middle-grade fantasy series by Samantha-Ellen Bound, via Danielle Binks and Jacinta di Mase of Jacinta di Mase Management. The publisher describes...
‘The White Girl’ optioned for film
22 September 2020
Tony Birch’s novel The White Girl (UQP) has been optioned for feature film by Typecast Entertainment. Birch's Miles Franklin-shortlisted novel follows Odette Brown, who is raising her granddaughter on her own and...
Exploring Eden Media acquires ‘Fire to Fork’ cookbook
21 September 2020
Exploring Eden Media has acquired world rights Fire to Fork, a camping cookbook by Harry Fisher. Fisher, who has developed a strong following on Instagram and via his YouTube series...
Hardie Grant acquires Alberici memoir
17 September 2020
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights to journalist Emma Alberici’s memoir Rewrite the Story. Interweaving her life as a first generation Australian and her career in journalism with an...
Molloy memoir ‘Fourteen’ to be adapted for screen
17 September 2020
Screen rights to journalist Shannon Molloy’s memoir Fourteen (S&S) have been acquired by Orange Entertainment Co. Fourteen is Molloy's account of the homophobic bullying and violence he experienced during high...
PRH acquires Madden’s ‘Anything But Fine’
16 September 2020
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to YA novel Anything But Fine by Tobias Madden. The novel’s teenage protagonist Luca Mason has been preparing to audition for...
S&S acquires biography ‘The Nazis Knew My Name’
15 September 2020
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to The Nazis Knew My Name, Maya Lee's biography of her mother, Australian–Slovakian Auschwitz survivor Magda Hellinger. Lee's book is based on...
A&U acquires 2020 Calibre Prize winner Rees’ memoir
15 September 2020
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to 2020 Calibre Prize winner Yves Rees’ memoir via Jacinta di Mase, following a five-way auction. All About Yves: Notes from a...
Affirm acquires picture book based on viral TikTok poem
11 September 2020
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to picture book Our Family Pledge, based on a poem by Emmaline Carroll Southwell that has accumulated millions of views on video sharing platform...
Rights round-up
9 September 2020
Sales Fiction Left Bank Literary has sold French translation rights to The Octopus and I (Erin Hortle, A&U) to Les éditions Dalva (Bourgois Publishing Group). Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold...
Affirm acquires Hoffman memoir ‘Full Credit to the Boys’
8 September 2020
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to Mel Hoffman’s memoir Full Credit to the Boys. Described by the publisher as 'a critical and often hilarious examination of gender in professional...
PRH acquires Next Chapter fellow Cehic’s short story collection
8 September 2020
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to Sadvertising, the debut short story collection by Next Chapter fellow Ennis Cehic. According to the author, the satirical stories in...
Australian Geographic acquires ‘Deadly Science’ series
4 September 2020
Australian Geographic has acquired world rights to an eight-book 'Deadly Science' nonfiction series aimed at primary school readers. Developed in conjunction with Deadly Science founder Corey Tutt, who will edit...
UQP acquires McQuire’s ‘Black Witness: The power of Indigenous media’
3 September 2020
UQP has acquired world rights to Black Witness: The power of Indigenous media, an updated collection of Darumbal and South Sea Islander journalist Amy McQuire's work. McQuire has been reporting...
YA trilogy ‘Valentine’ optioned for screen
3 September 2020
Jodi McAlister's supernatural YA trilogy 'Valentine' (Penguin) has been optioned for screen by Like A Photon Creative via Alex Adsett of Alex Adsett Publishing Services. McAlister's trilogy features a team...
