NewSouth acquires ‘Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower: The letters’
Wednesday, 31 May 2023
NewSouth Publishing has acquired world rights to Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower: The letters, edited by Brigitta Olubas and Susan Wyndham. The publisher describes the book as ‘a major contribution to the literary...
Canelo acquires McKenzie crime series
Tuesday, 30 May 2023
British publisher Canelo has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) to a three-book crime series by Dinuka McKenzie, reports BookBrunch. Rights were acquired via Bill Goodall Literary Agency on...
Transit Lounge acquires Cranston debut novel
Tuesday, 30 May 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Belinda Cranston’s debut novel Not Like Mr Benn. The author ‘beautifully captures the pluck and longing as well as the sadness and bewilderment of...
HarperCollins acquires Hayes memoir
Tuesday, 23 May 2023
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to I’m Liz Hayes, the memoir of broadcast journalist Liz Hayes. Hayes has spent over 40 years as a reporter and presenter for Nine Entertainment,...
UQP acquires Metcalfe debut memoir
Monday, 22 May 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to the debut memoir Breath by Carly-Jay Metcalfe, via Jeanne Ryckmans of Cameron’s Management. Breath was the winner of the 2022...
Hachette acquires nonfiction from Schlegl, Qin via Law partnership
Friday, 19 May 2023
Hachette Australia has acquired two nonfiction titles via its publishing scout partnership with Australian screenwriter, author and broadcaster Benjamin Law. Adult nonfiction publisher Sophie Hamley acquired ANZ, UK and Commonwealth...
Echo acquires Thomas debut murder mystery
Wednesday, 17 May 2023
Echo Publishing has acquired world rights to Paul Thomas’s debut murder mystery The Beacon, as part of a two-book deal, via Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. With a career as...
Puncher & Wattmann acquires Dimitriadis’s ‘The Mother Must Die’
Wednesday, 17 May 2023
Puncher & Wattmann (P&W) has acquired ANZ rights to debut short story collection The Mother Must Die by Koraly Dimitriadis via the author. Dimitriadis, a Melbourne-based bestselling poet who self-published her poetry...
NewSouth acquires Kean science book
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
NewSouth has acquired world rights to science writer Zoe Kean’s popular science title Why are we like this? What can scuba diving at Shark Bay uncover about the evolution of...
Every Version of You optioned for film
Monday, 15 May 2023
Cognito Entertainment, a new independent film and television production company launched last week in the United States, has optioned Every Version of You (Grace Chan, Affirm) for adaptation into an international...
New Draper YA to Pan Mac, HarperTeen
Friday, 5 May 2023
Pan Macmillan Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a new YA novel by Lauren Draper via literary agent Annabel Barker, with world English rights (ex ANZ) going to HarperTeen US,...
Upswell acquires Boland essay collection
Wednesday, 3 May 2023
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights to Brooke Boland’s first collection of essays. Gulp, Swallow reflects on the uncertainty of identity in a young woman’s life, ‘when who we...
Scribe acquires Wallman, Sparrow collaboration
Monday, 1 May 2023
Scribe has acquired world rights to 12 Rules for Strife, a new graphic nonfiction work by Jeff Sparrow and Sam Wallman. Described by Scribe as a ‘radical gift book’ that will...
UQP acquires Weetman nonfiction
Thursday, 27 April 2023
UQP has acquired ANZ rights to a nonfiction book by Nova Weetman. The as yet untitled book weaves together experiences of love and loss from throughout Weetman’s life, including...
Holland-Batt poetry collections sell to Bloodaxe UK
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
UQP has sold UK rights to Sarah Holland-Batt’s three poetry collections to UK poetry publishing house Bloodaxe, in a deal brokered by Rights Manager Hayley Tomlinson. Bloodaxe acquired rights to...
Christmas Press acquires Carrington’s ‘Leaf Letters’
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Christmas Press has acquired world rights to Leaf Letters, a junior fiction title by author-illustrator Lorena Carrington. The interactive short novel for young readers is about nine-year-old Hazel Bird, who...
Echo acquires Kell historical novel
Thursday, 13 April 2023
Echo Publishing has acquired world rights to Katrina Kell’s first novel for adults, via Fiona Smith at Beyond Words Literary Agency. The book is inspired by the French nude portrait...
Aria acquires Lette backlist, new novels
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
UK publisher Aria, an imprint of Head of Zeus, has acquired The Revenge Club and a second title from author and comedian Kathy Lette, reports the Bookseller. Editorial director Rachel...
‘The Great Greenwashing’ sells to US
Tuesday, 4 April 2023
Douglas Richmond at House of Anansi Press has acquired North American rights to The Great Greenwashing by John Pabon. The deal was made with Sophy Williams at Black Inc. on behalf of...
Affirm signs Mellor for five-book series and third ‘Grandest Bookshop’ book
Thursday, 30 March 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a new five-book series by Amelia Mellor as well as the third novel in Mellor's series that began with The Grandest Bookshop in...
HarperCollins acquires Ringland book on unblocking creativity
Wednesday, 22 March 2023
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Holly Ringland’s book The House That Joy Built: The pleasure and power of giving ourselves permission to create, via Benython Oldfield of Zeitgeist...
Screen Australia funds ‘Eggshell Skull’ adaptation development
Wednesday, 22 March 2023
Screen Australia has announced story development funding for a feature film adaptation of Eggshell Skull (Bri Lee, A&U), as one of 20 projects sharing in $700,000 development funding. Actor Mia...
Hachette Australia acquires Unreich memoir of mother’s Holocaust survival
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Hachette Australia has acquired the ANZ rights to A Brilliant Life: My mother’s inspiring story of surviving the Holocaust by Australian journalist Rachelle Unreich. In Australia, Hachette head of literary...
Pantera sells ‘The Deadly Daylight’ to Holiday House
Monday, 20 March 2023
Pantera Press has sold World English rights (excluding ANZ) to Ash Harrier’s The Deadly Daylight to New York-based independent publisher Holiday House. The first Alice England Mysteries book, The Deadly...
Affirm acquires Ham debut nonfiction ‘The Lucky Ones’
Friday, 17 March 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to the debut nonfiction work by journalist and activist Melinda Ham, via Rochelle Fernandez of Alex Adsett Literary. The Lucky Ones is about refugees...
Giramondo sells US, UK rights to Wright titles
Thursday, 16 March 2023
Giramondo has sold international rights to several Alexis Wright books. In North America, New York-based independent press New Directions will publish Alexis Wright's forthcoming novel Praiseworthy (April) and her novel...
Moriarty’s ‘Apples Never Fall’ to be adapted for screen
Thursday, 16 March 2023
Liane Moriarty’s novel Apples Never Fall (Macmillan) will be adapted as a limited series. Apples Never Fall centres on the Delaneys, who appear to be a contented family. Former tennis coaches...
Transit Lounge acquires anaesthetist’s thriller
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to All You Took From Me by NSW author and doctor Lisa Kenway in a direct publisher-to-author deal. ‘This is a dark, twisty thriller...
PRH acquires new Flanagan book
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Question 7 by Richard Flanagan via PRH publisher at large Nikki Christer. Question 7 melds fiction and nonfiction, 'beginning at...
HarperCollins acquires Blanchard novel in two-book deal
Thursday, 9 March 2023
HarperCollins Publishers Australia has acquired world rights to A Woman of Courage by Tania Blanchard in a two-book deal brokered by publisher Roberta Ivers. Set in the last decade of...
