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S&S acquires Morgan’s fiction debut 

Thursday, 6 February 2025
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to Rachael Morgan’s commercial women’s fiction debut, in a deal between S&S commercial fiction publisher Cassandra Di Bello and Anjanette Fennell...

Pink Shorts Press acquires works by De Zilva, Cothren 

Olivia De Zilva and Alex Cothren Wednesday, 5 February 2025
New publishing venture Pink Shorts Press has announced its first acquisitions of new titles. The press, which plans to release books twice a year (March and August), previously announced it...

Hardie Grant Books acquires Nat Thaipun cookbook 

a portrait of Nat Thaipun Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world print and ebook rights to Thai: Anywhere and Everywhere, the debut cookbook from MasterChef Australia 2024 winner Nat Thaipun, through Ben Liebmann of Understory....

UQP sells rights to ‘Edenglassie’ to Oneworld

Edenglassie Wednesday, 29 January 2025
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold world English (ex ANZ) and audio rights to Melissa Lucashenko’s Edenglassie to Oneworld Publications. The deal was struck between UQP rights and contacts...

HarperVia acquires two Tsao novels 

Tuesday, 14 January 2025
Alexa Frank at HarperVia has acquired world English rights to two novels by 2023 PEN Translation Prize winner Tiffany Tsao, in a pre-empt deal from Daniel Lazar at Writers House...

Riveted Press acquires middle-grade fantasy trilogy 

Photograph of Jayne McIntyre Friday, 10 January 2025
Riveted Press has acquired worldwide rights to the middle-grade fantasy series Farwood by Jayne McIntyre, in a three-book deal via Debbie Golvan at Golvan Arts Management. The first book in...

UQP acquires Jacobs, Natt picture book for adults 

Thursday, 12 December 2024
UQP has acquired world rights to a satirical picture book for adults, titled If Queers Weren’t Meant to Have Kids, by Narelda Jacobs and Karina Natt, to be illustrated by...

WeirDo, Wolf Girl to be adapted to screen 

Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Two Anh Do series, WeirDo (Scholastic) and Wolf Girl (A&U), are being adapted to screen, reports the Age. The WeirDo series is being turned into a television series in partnership...

UQP sells Sakr, Ahmed poetry to US and UK 

Tuesday, 10 December 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold North American and UK rights to The Nightmare Sequence, a collection of illustrated poetry by Omar Sakr and Safdar Ahmed, to Nightboat Books...

A&U acquires Starford novel 

Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Rebecca Starford’s novel The Visitor, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown Australia. In The Visitor, ‘a woman returns...

Storm acquires seven McIntosh novels 

Thursday, 5 December 2024
Digital-first publishing house Storm has acquired world English language rights (ex ANZ) to seven novels by Fiona McIntosh, via Lisa Highton at Jenny Brown Associates. Acquired titles include The Orphans,...

S&S acquires Gould memoir 

Photograph of Sally Gould Thursday, 5 December 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to a memoir by paramedic Sally Gould, with the working title Frog: A Memoir of Life and Death on the Frontline,...

Affirm acquires Valentish self-help book 

Wednesday, 4 December 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to self-help book The Introvert’s Guide to Leaving the House by Jenny Valentish. A Melbourne-based journalist and author, Valentish wrote the addiction memoir Woman...

A&U acquires ‘History’s Strangest Deaths’ 

Tuesday, 3 December 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to History’s Strangest Deaths by Riley Knight, in a deal brokered by Florence Dodd at WME Agency, UK. ‘[History’s Strangest Deaths] highlights the...

HarperCollins acquires Guthrie debut novel 

Tuesday, 3 December 2024
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to Sam Guthrie’s debut novel, The Compromised. HarperCollins Australia head of fiction Catherine Milne acquired the book from Tom Gilliatt at a4 Literary. UK rights...

Transit Lounge acquires Colley’s second novel 

Monday, 2 December 2024
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Brendan Colley’s second novel, The Season for Flying Saucers, via Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. ‘I love the way Brendan Colley captures the strange in...

UWA Publishing acquires Inak children’s series 

Photograph of Lora Inak Thursday, 28 November 2024
UWA Publishing has acquired ANZ rights to children’s series The Cockatoo Crew by Lora Inak, in a four-book deal, via Danielle Binks at Jacinta Dimase Management. Illustrated by Kruti Desai,...

Affirm Press acquires Louise picture-book series 

Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to six books in the picture-book series Handbooks for Little Humans by Zanni Louise, in a deal between Simon & Schuster and Affirm children’s...

Hardie Grant acquires Baker-Finch biography 

Photograph of Ian Baker-Finch Tuesday, 26 November 2024
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world print, ebook and audiobook rights to the authorised biography Ian Baker-Finch: To Hell and Back by Geoff Saunders. In the book, Saunders has charted the...

Murdoch acquires ‘She Births’ 

Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Murdoch Books has acquired world rights to She Births: A Practical Guide to Creating a Beautiful Birth by Nadine Richardson, via Lou Johnson at Key People Literary Management. Richardson is...

S&S acquire Masen romance series 

Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has acquired world rights to two novels in a new romance series from Kat T Masen. Described as a ‘small-town billionaire romance series’, the series...

UWAP acquires Smith’s YA novel 

Pip Smith credit Lucy Parakhina Monday, 18 November 2024
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Pip Smith’s YA novel The Pull of the Moon. Inspired by the Janga/SIEV-221 tragedy in December 2010, The Pull of the Moon...

UQP acquires Wood middle-grade novel 

Fiona Wood Thursday, 14 November 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired ANZ rights to a new middle-grade novel by Fiona Wood, titled The Boy and the Dog Tree, in a two-book deal, via Katelyn...

A&U acquires Beaumont thriller 

Thursday, 14 November 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Liar’s Game, the third book in Jack Beaumont’s Frenchman series of thrillers, via Laura Bonner of WME. In the new book,...