Alcove acquires ‘The Laughter Effect’
Wednesday, 2 November 2022
Laura Apperson at Alcove Press has acquired world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to The Laughter Effect: How to build joy, resilience and positivity in your life by Ros Ben-Moshe, in a...
Puncher & Wattmann acquires three Craig novels
Friday, 28 October 2022
Puncher & Wattmann has acquired world English rights (ex USA & Canada) to two novels by Blue Mountains–based writer Jen Craig, as well as world rights to her debut, via...
Scribe acquires new Gott novel
Friday, 28 October 2022
Scribe Publications has acquired world English rights to Naked Ambition, a new novel by Robert Gott. Described by the publisher as a ‘playful’ novel, Naked Ambition explores the collision of...
UQP acquires book by leading Indigenous psychologist
Thursday, 27 October 2022
UQP has acquired world rights to a book by leading Indigenous psychologist Tracy Westerman outlining her life and work. Westerman is an internationally recognised psychologist specialising in culturally appropriate psychological...
Hachette acquires Jones’s ‘Cool Water’
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
Hachette has acquired world rights to literary novel Cool Water by Myfanwy Jones, in a deal negotiated by Jacinta di Mase Management. Following the story of a family over three...
‘People Who Lunch’ sells to Little, Brown Spark
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
Talia Krohn at Little, Brown Spark has acquired world English language rights (ex ANZ) to People Who Lunch: Essays on work, leisure & loose living by Sally Olds (Upswell), via Black...
Picador acquires ‘Prima Facie’ novelisation
Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Picador has acquired rights to the novelisation of Australian playwright Suzie Miller’s multi-award-winning play Prima Facie, plus an as yet untitled second novel, in ‘a heated auction’. Pan Macmillan publisher...
S&S acquires Paterson debut historical novel
Monday, 24 October 2022
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired the debut novel Where Light Meets Water by Susan Paterson. Former S&S publishing director Fiona Henderson acquired ANZ rights to the novel from...
Ping’s ‘The Poison of Polygamy’ adapted for stage
Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Wong Shee Ping’s novel The Poison of Polygamy (translated by Ely Finch, Sydney University Press) has been adapted for stage in a joint production with La Boite Theatre and Sydney...
Ultimo acquires Day memoir ‘Reckless’
Tuesday, 18 October 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights for Reckless by Marele Day, via Jenny Darling of Jenny Darling & Associates. Described by the publisher as a 'brilliantly crafted' ‘literary detective memoir’,...
Ultimo Press acquires Griffiths debut ‘Tissue’
Friday, 14 October 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights to Tissue, the debut book by Melbourne writer Madison Griffiths. In Tissue, Griffiths ‘turns her keen eye to the topic of abortion in a...
Bondi Beach Productions acquires ‘The Criminal Class’ screen rights
Thursday, 13 October 2022
Film and television rights to Paul MacNamara’s debut book The Criminal Class: Memoir of a prison teacher (Big Sky) have been acquired by Bondi Beach Productions, based in Sydney, Los...
S&S acquires Prak debut thriller
Thursday, 13 October 2022
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired ANZ rights to Michelle Prak’s debut thriller The Rush, via literary agent Melanie Ostell. The Rush is described by the publisher as a...
Pantera Press acquires Vanstone memoir in two-book deal
Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Pantera Press has acquired ANZ rights to the memoir A Thousand Wasted Sundays by writer and podcaster Victoria Vanstone, in a two-book deal, via Sarah McKenzie at Sarah McKenzie Literary...
A&U acquires Scholte sequel
Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ and Oceania rights to Shadows of Truth by Astrid Scholte, the sequel to her 2022 YA fantasy League of Liars. Shadows of Truth...
‘Wellmania’ sells to UK ahead of Netflix adaptation
Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Coronet, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (ex ANZ) to Wellmania: Misadventures in the search for wellness by journalist Brigid Delaney (Nero), from Black...
Campion acquires Insight
Tuesday, 11 October 2022
The Campion Group has acquired Insight Publications, an independent publisher of English resources for secondary schools. According to Campion, Insight will continue to operate independently with the support of the...
Transit Lounge acquires Ryan historical fiction series
Tuesday, 11 October 2022
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to the first two books in the new historical fiction series ‘The Queens of Navarre’ by Tracy Ryan, via Clive Newman Agency. The first...
UQP acquires Turnbull-Roberts debut ‘Long Yarn Short’
Friday, 7 October 2022
UQP has acquired world rights for the first book by Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts, Long Yarn Short: We Are Still Here. Turnbull-Roberts is a Bundjalung, Widubul-Wiabul writer, human rights activist and lawyer...
Polygon acquires world rights to Dalgarno novel
Friday, 7 October 2022
Scottish imprint Polygon has acquired world rights (ex ANZ) for Paul Dalgarno’s forthcoming novel A Country of Eternal Light (HarperCollins, February 2023), in a deal brokered by Martin Shaw of...
Forthcoming debut ‘The Wakes’ to be adapted for TV
Wednesday, 5 October 2022
Television rights to forthcoming debut novel The Wakes by Sydney author Dianne Yarwood (Hachette, March) have been acquired by production company Made Up Stories and film and television studio Fifth...
Text acquires Neill memoir
Wednesday, 5 October 2022
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to the memoir Did I Ever Tell You This? by actor Sam Neill. Born in Northern Ireland in 1947, Neill emigrated to New Zealand...
Text acquires story collection, novels by Boundless mentees
Wednesday, 5 October 2022
Text has acquired two books by John Morrissey and a historical novel by Lenora Thaker, the winners of Text and Writing NSW's Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship in 2020 and 2021...
UQP acquires Plozza middle-grade novel
Tuesday, 27 September 2022
UQP has acquired ANZ rights to Meet Me at the Moon Tree, a new middle-grade novel by Shivaun Plozza. Meet Me at the Moon Tree follows 10-year-old Carina grieving the...
PRH acquires Kirsten Holocaust memoir
Monday, 26 September 2022
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to US-based Australian author Karen Kirsten’s Holocaust memoir Irena’s Gift, via Chris Bucci and Vanessa Kerr at Aevitas. Irena’s Gift tells the story of...
Pantera acquires Colley fiction debut in two-book deal
Wednesday, 21 September 2022
Pantera Press has acquired world rights for debut novel The Next Big Thing by writer and comedian James Colley through Creative Representation, in a two-book deal. Pantera said The Next...
A&U acquires Nadesalingam memoir
Tuesday, 20 September 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to a memoir by Priya Nadesalingam. Following the national interest generated by community supporters over several years in the ‘Home to Biloela’...
Sony acquires ‘Horse’ screen rights
Monday, 19 September 2022
Screen rights to Geraldine Brooks’s most recent novel Horse (Hachette) have been acquired by Sony’s 3000 Pictures ‘in a competitive situation’, according to Deadline. Brooks’ novel tells the story of...
Cronk debut sells to US
Thursday, 15 September 2022
Sally Bird at Calidris Literary Agency has sold world rights to Australian author Evelyn Cronk’s debut novel Without Question to US publisher Level Best Books, which specialises in contemporary and...
UQP acquires Prosser debut novel ‘Big Time’
Monday, 12 September 2022
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Jordan Prosser’s debut novel Big Time. Described as Almost Famous meets Slaughterhouse-Five, Big Time is an anti-fascist ode to the...
