Tuesday, 24 September 2024
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired ANZ rights to The Mortons by Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestier in a two-book deal at auction, via Jill Grinberg Literary Management. The Mortons was...

Tuesday, 24 September 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Carol Lefevre’s memoir Bloomer, via literary agent Fran Moore. Lefevre is a visiting research fellow at the University of Adelaide, where she gained...

Thursday, 19 September 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Toby Schmitz’s debut novel, The Empress Murders, via Edwina Stuart at HLA Management. The publisher described The Empress Murders as a...

Monday, 16 September 2024
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Christy Tania’s first cookbook, Imagine: Creating Desserts with Christy Tania. The publisher said that the cookbook features over 50 base recipes for ‘adventurous and...

Monday, 16 September 2024
Riveted Press has acquired worldwide rights to five picture books in the series The Book of Kin by author/illustrator Tamlyn Teow, beginning with the book SoXiety. In this ‘almost-wordless’ picture...

Thursday, 12 September 2024
Atlantic Books Australia, a division of Allen & Unwin (A&U), has acquired ANZ rights to a new novel by Jessica Dettmann, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown....

Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Diana Reid’s third novel, Signs of Damage. In Signs of Damage, 13-year-old Cass goes missing while the Kelly family is holidaying in the...

Thursday, 5 September 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold North American rights to Sandy Bigna’s debut middle-grade verse novel, Little Bones, to Krista Vitola, executive editor at Simon & Schuster Books for...

Monday, 2 September 2024
Murdoch Books has acquired world rights to the first solo cookbook by Helen Goh, Baking and the Meaning of Life. The publisher described the book as a ‘brilliant modern-day baking...

Monday, 26 August 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to self-help book Master Your Relationship Anxiety by Georgie Collinson. According to the publisher, Master Your Relationship Anxiety ‘delivers a simple four-week program for...

Tuesday, 20 August 2024
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to The Maskeys, a new novel from Stuart Everly-Wilson. Publisher Barry Scott described the novel as ‘brimming with wit and pathos’. ‘Set in the...

Thursday, 15 August 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Living a Life of Greatness by podcaster Sarah Grynberg. ‘Sarah believes greatness is fulfilment and purpose in life, and she shows it’s...

Thursday, 15 August 2024
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has acquired ANZ rights to I Want Everything, a debut novel by Dominic Amerena, in a pre-emptive offer, via agent Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary....

Monday, 29 July 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to three books by author-illustrator Brentos. Brentos' first children’s book, Australia: From dawn to dusk (Affirm), was shortlisted for the CBCA award for a...