Two Brabon novels to Ultimo Archive
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ and UK rights to two new novels by Katherine Brabon, in a deal via Clare Forster at Curtis Brown. In Body Friend, the narrator leaves...
Transit Lounge acquires new Matthews novel on online dating Archive
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Never Look Desperate by Rachel Matthews, in a direct author to publisher deal. Matthews's third novel is described by Transit Lounge publisher Barry...
Affirm acquires Daley anthology about teachers Archive
Friday, 25 November 2022
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to a forthcoming anthology about teachers, to be edited by Megan Daley. The anthology will showcase educators who nurture, inspire, champion and create change, in...
Pantera acquires Cohen debut ‘Everyone and Everything’ Archive
Thursday, 24 November 2022
Pantera Press has acquired world rights for the debut novel Everyone and Everything by Nadine J Cohen, who is represented by Stacey Testro International. A tale of ‘family, mental health...
HarperCollins acquires Grant’s ‘The Queen is Dead’ Archive
Wednesday, 23 November 2022
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to The Queen is Dead, a new work of nonfiction from Stan Grant, in a deal brokered by Tara Wynne of Curtis Brown. To...
Black Inc. sells ‘One Hundred Days’ to HarperVia Archive
Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Black Inc. has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to One Hundred Days by Alice Pung to HarperCollins imprint HarperVia. The deal was made by Black Inc. international director Sophy...
A&U acquires debut novel ‘Search History’ Archive
Monday, 14 November 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Search History, the debut novel by Melbourne writer Amy Taylor. A&U publisher Jane Palfreyman acquired rights from associate agent Benjamin Paz at...
Ultimo acquires Finkemeyer debut novel Archive
Friday, 11 November 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Melbourne-based writer Pip Finkemeyer’s debut, Sad Girl Novel, in a two-book deal via Claire Friedman at Inkwell Management. The publisher describes Sad Girl...
Black Inc. announces ‘Growing Up Indian in Australia’ Archive
Thursday, 10 November 2022
Black Inc. has announced the latest addition to its ‘Growing Up’ nonfiction anthology series is Growing Up Indian in Australia, to be edited by Canberra-based journalist Aarti Betigeri. 'It can...
NewSouth acquires Pirotta book on whales Archive
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
NewSouth Publishing has acquired world rights to a book about the past, present and future of whales by wildlife scientist and science communicator Vanessa Pirotta. According to the publisher, the...
HarperCollins acquires Parker WWII love story Archive
Thursday, 3 November 2022
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to the novel At the Foot of the Cherry Tree by scriptwriter Alli Parker, in a deal brokered by Clare Forster of Curtis Brown. Described...
Alcove acquires ‘The Laughter Effect’ Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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’ Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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’ Archive
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’ Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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’ Archive
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...
