MidnightSun acquires Gold novel
Thursday, 4 July 2024
MidnightSun Publishing has acquired world rights to the novel Shift by Irma Gold, via Sarah McKenzie of Sarah McKenzie Literary Management. Set in the South African township where the 1955...
Transit Lounge acquires Sayer memoir
Wednesday, 3 July 2024
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to No Dancing in the Lift, a memoir from author Mandy Sayer, via Jeanne Ryckmans at Key People Literary Management. Described by Transit Lounge...
UQP acquires Vowles debut novel
Wednesday, 3 July 2024
UQP has acquired world rights to a debut novel from screenwriter and author Thomas Vowles, titled The End of Everything. ‘A psychological thriller set in Melbourne’s queer scene, The End...
Affirm acquires Lishman self-help book
Tuesday, 2 July 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Marny Lishman’s self-help book Crisis to Contentment, via The Lifestyle Suite. Lishman is a health and community psychologist, wellbeing and mindset coach, keynote...
Hachette acquires Brooks memoir
Tuesday, 2 July 2024
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Geraldine Brooks’ memoir Memorial Days. Described by the publisher as a ‘heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey toward peace’,...
PRH acquires Bindi Irwin picture book
Monday, 1 July 2024
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired rights to Bindi Irwin’s debut picture book, titled You Are a Wildlife Warrior! Saving animals & the planet, illustrated by Ramona Kaulitzki (Sisters...
Scribe acquires new Horton novel ‘Time Together’
Thursday, 27 June 2024
Scribe has acquired world rights to Time Together, a new novel from Luke Horton, via Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary. The publisher said Time Together is ‘a novel about...
Affirm acquires second Solly novel
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Kate Solly’s second novel, The Paradise Heights Craft Store Stitch-Up. Solly is a mother of six and author of Tuesday Evenings with the...
Pantera acquires Madigan nonfiction ‘Torn’
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Pantera has acquired world rights to Nicole Madigan’s nonfiction book Torn, via Jeanne Ryckmans of Key People Literary Management. The book follows individual stories of women who have faced major...
Upswell acquires White’s essay collection
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Upswell has acquired world rights to Jessica White’s collection Silence Is My Habitat: Ecobiological essays. Upswell publisher Terri-ann White said White’s new book of essays ‘contains multiple dimensions’, with ‘a...
UQP acquires Morton’s VPLA-winning debut
Monday, 24 June 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Rachel Morton’s debut novel, The Sun Was Electric Light, which won the 2024 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished...
Rossell’s ‘The Midwatch’ sells to North America, European territories
Monday, 24 June 2024
Penguin Random House (PRH) imprint Dial Books for Younger Readers has acquired North American rights to Judith Rossell’s forthcoming illustrated middle-grade novel The Midwatch, via Daniel Lazar at Writers House...
Scribner acquires Latimore nonfiction title
Monday, 24 June 2024
Simon & Schuster imprint Scribner Australia has acquired ANZ and UK rights to Kumanjayi: Death and indifference by First Nations journalist Jack Latimore, in a deal via Melanie Ostell at...
S&S acquires Kitching romance novel
Thursday, 20 June 2024
Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has acquired world rights to The Life Experiment, a romance novel from Melbourne-based author Jess Kitching, in a deal negotiated by Daniel Pilkington. Described by...
Upswell acquires Pigram nonfiction title
Wednesday, 19 June 2024
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights to a debut nonfiction title by singer-songwriter Stephen Pigram, with the working title Feel Like Going Back Home. Upswell said that, in the book,...
A&U acquires two Nix novels
Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Garth Nix’s adult science fiction novel Massif, in a two-book deal via Fiona Inglis at Curtis Brown Australia. US rights to...
Transit Lounge acquires Lyons-Lee gothic literary fiction
Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to The Haunting of Mr and Mrs Stevenson, a second novel from Belinda Lyons-Lee. Described by the publisher as ‘gothic literary fiction in the...
Ultimo acquires Tunnicliffe novel
Thursday, 13 June 2024
Ultimo Press has acquired rights to Hannah Tunnicliffe’s domestic noir The Pool. The publisher said The Pool ‘explores the choices and challenges that come after a devastating event through a cast of...
Summit Books to publish memoir from ‘Alone Australia’ winner
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has announced the first acquisition by Jane Palfreyman as Summit Books publishing director is We Are the Stars, a memoir by Gina Chick, winner of...
S&S acquires McCormack’s ‘Raising Resilient Children’
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has acquired world rights to a nonfiction book from teacher Gavin McCormack, titled Raising Resilient Children: 7 ways to nurture lifelong learners, via literary agent Daniel...
A&U acquires Trevelyan debut novel
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to debut author Jennifer Trevelyan’s literary coming-of-age story A Beautiful Family, at an auction by Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary on behalf of...
McIntosh’s ‘The Pearl Thief’ to be adapted for film
Tuesday, 11 June 2024
Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced Fiona McIntosh’s The Pearl Thief is being adapted into a feature film. Made Up Stories, led by Bruna and Steve Hutensky, will produce the...
Upswell acquires Holt poetry collection, ‘Fitzroy North 3068’
Thursday, 6 June 2024
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights to a new collection of poetry from Yvette Henry Holt, titled Fitzroy North 3068, via Jeanne Ryckmans and Lou Johnson at Key People Literary...
A&U acquires London debut
Wednesday, 5 June 2024
Allen & Unwin has acquired world rights to debut novel Love on the Air by radio presenter and podcaster Ash London. Love on the Air follows radio host Alex York...
Affirm acquires Fioretti outback noir ‘Skull River’
Tuesday, 4 June 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Pip Fioretti’s second outback noir novel, Skull River. Set in 1912, Skull River features mounted trooper Augustus (Gus) Hawkins, the protagonist of Fioretti’s first...
NewSouth acquires Wyndham’s Harrower biography
Thursday, 30 May 2024
NewSouth has acquired world rights to a new biography of Australian novelist Elizabeth Harrower by Susan Wyndham. Harrower received the Patrick White Award in 1996, established by White for writers...
Pantera sells rights to Duggan’s ‘Work Backwards’ to Wiley
Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Pantera has sold world rights (ex ANZ) to Work Backwards (Tim Duggan) to Wiley, in a deal brokered by Pantera rights manager Katy McEwen. In the book, released locally in...
A&U acquires Rielly’s ‘Fridays with Blanche’
Tuesday, 28 May 2024
Allen & Unwin has acquired world rights to Fridays with Blanche by Derek Rielly, via Jeanne Ryckmans at Key People Literary Management. Fridays with Blanche is based on Rielly’s weekly...
Text acquires Stanley’s ‘Consider Yourself Kissed’
Thursday, 23 May 2024
Text Publishing has acquired ANZ rights to London-based Australian novelist Jessica Stanley’s Consider Yourself Kissed, via Lizzy Kremer at David Higham Associates. Kremer also sold US rights to Sarah McGrath...
Affirm acquires Art Simone anthology
Thursday, 23 May 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Drag Queens Down Under, an anthology curated by Art Simone. The anthology is described by the publisher as ‘a glorious celebration of life...
