Scribe acquires new McKay fiction collection Archive
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Scribe Publications has acquired world rights to Gunflower, a new collection of short fiction by Laura Jean McKay. According to the publisher, Gunflower ‘charts the political, ecological, and bodily themes...
Delaney’s ‘Reasons Not to Worry’ sells in multiple territories Archive
Wednesday, 31 August 2022
Rights to Brigid Delaney’s nonfiction work Reasons Not to Worry (A&U, September) have been sold to North America, the UK and Commonwealth (ex ANZ and Canada), Greece and Serbia, in...
A&U acquires new Morton novel Archive
Monday, 29 August 2022
Allen & Unwin has acquired ANZ rights to Kate Morton’s new novel Homecoming. Described by the publisher as ‘an epic novel that spans generations’, Homecoming explores the power of motherhood,...
UQP acquires third Leane poetry collection ‘Gawimarra: Gathering’ Archive
Friday, 26 August 2022
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Gawimarra: Gathering, the third poetry collection by Wiradjuri writer, critic and poet Jeanine Leane. The product of decades of poetic,...
Hachette acquires two new Binks novels Archive
Thursday, 25 August 2022
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ and UK rights to a new middle-grade novel from Danielle Binks in a two-book deal, via Jacinta di Mase Management. Publisher Kate Stevens acquired upper...
Transit Lounge acquires Bacon literary mystery novel Archive
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Serengotti, a literary mystery novel by Eugen Bacon. According to Transit Lounge publisher Barry Scott, Serengotti takes the classic story of a woman...
Pantera acquires Sarago memoir on beauty Archive
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to the memoir Gigorou: Are you ready to redefine beauty? by Sasha Kutabah Sarago, represented by Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. A former model,...
PRH acquires Bhasin debut Archive
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights for I Look Forward to Hearing from You, the debut novel by Sydney-based writer Nick Bhasin, in a deal agented by...
CJZ options film and TV rights to Jaffé novel Archive
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Production company CJZ has optioned film and television rights for The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison (Meredith Jaffé, HarperCollins), in a deal negotiated by Tara Wynne of Curtis Brown Australia. The...
Sweatshop acquires Hage book, establishes $10,000 First Nations fellowship Archive
Monday, 22 August 2022
Sweatshop Literacy Movement Inc. has acquired world rights to The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism by anthropologist, public intellectual and cultural critic Ghassan Hage. The book will include new editions...
Berbay partners with Vision Australia on children’s series Archive
Tuesday, 16 August 2022
Berbay Books is partnering with Vision Australia on a new series of children’s books due to be published in 2023. The 32-page hardcover picture books will portray ‘significant Australians living...
PRH acquires Seaborn debut in two-book deal Archive
Monday, 15 August 2022
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to Jessica Seaborn’s debut ‘anti-romcom’ novel Perfect-ish, in a two-book deal via Caitlan Cooper-Trent at Curtis Brown. PRH described Perfect-ish as a...
Caro’s ‘The Mother’ optioned for film Archive
Wednesday, 10 August 2022
Film rights for Jane Caro’s first novel for adults, The Mother (A&U), have been optioned by New Town Films in a deal negotiated by Jacinta di Mase of Jacinta di...
UQP acquires Taylor debut ‘Flinch’ Archive
Tuesday, 9 August 2022
UQP has acquired world rights to debut novel Flinch by 2022 Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize winner Saraid Taylor. A coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of elite sport and...
Ultimo acquires Kalagian Blunt thriller ‘Dark Mode’ Archive
Thursday, 4 August 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights for Ashley Kalagian Blunt’s thriller Dark Mode, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson from Curtis Brown. Described by the publisher as ‘compulsive and...
‘Grimmish’ sells to UK, North America Archive
Tuesday, 2 August 2022
Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary, on behalf of Puncher & Wattmann, has sold UK and US rights at auction to Michael Winkler’s debut novel Grimmish, in a co-publishing deal between...
UQP acquires Wagan Watson short story collection Archive
Friday, 29 July 2022
UQP has acquired world rights to poet Samuel Wagan Watson's first short story collection, New and Used Ghosts. The collection of ghost stories interrogates and celebrates myth, legend and secrets...
Transit Lounge acquires Shirm’s ‘The Crying Room’ Archive
Thursday, 28 July 2022
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Gretchen Shirm's second novel The Crying Room, via Jane Novak Literary Agency. ‘It is hard to think of a novel more deeply sensitive and...
Kenwood’s ‘Unnecessary Drama’ sells to US Archive
Wednesday, 27 July 2022
Text has sold North American rights to Nina Kenwood’s second YA novel Unnecessary Drama to Sarah Barley at Flatiron Books, in a deal brokered by David Forrer at Inkwell Management....
UQP acquires inaugural Kathryn Heyman Mentorship Award–winning novel Archive
Tuesday, 26 July 2022
UQP has acquired world rights to the debut novel Roseghetto by Kirsty Jagger, inaugural recipient of the Kathryn Heyman Mentorship Award for a writer from a background of social and...
A&U acquires Lim middle-grade novel Archive
Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ, Oceania and non-exclusive Asia rights to a new middle-grade novel by Rebecca Lim, Two Sparrowhawks in a Lonely Sky, via the Annabel Barker...
Affirm acquires two Robinson novels Archive
Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to two new novels by Alice Robinson. The first title, Blueshifts, is a literary/speculative fiction novel set both 100 years into the future and...
HarperCollins acquires two crime novels by Lando Archive
Tuesday, 19 July 2022
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to two novels by Veronica Lando, via Benjamin Paz at Curtis Brown. The first book, The Drowning Girls, is a ‘darkly absorbing’ mystery set in...
Ultimo acquires debut novel ‘Higher Education’ Archive
Friday, 15 July 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to debut novel Higher Education by Kira McPherson, in a deal brokered by Cara Lee Simpson from UK-based agency Peters Fraser + Dunlop. According...
Affirm acquires Barron debut novel ‘Golden Days’ Archive
Thursday, 14 July 2022
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Golden Days, the debut novel by Aotearoa New Zealand author Caroline Barron, via Nadine Rubin Nathan of High Spot Literary. Described by the...
S&S acquires MAFS star Robinson’s memoir Archive
Thursday, 7 July 2022
Simon & Schuster (S&S) Australia has acquired world rights to the memoir of lifestyle personality, businesswoman and podcaster Jules Robinson. Robinson rose to fame following her appearance on Married at...
Hachette acquires Dunn debut novel Archive
Wednesday, 6 July 2022
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to Dirt Poor Islanders, the debut novel by Winnie Dunn. Dirt Poor Islanders explores growing up in a blended Tongan family in Western Sydney...
HarperCollins acquires Mordue novel, second Cave biography Archive
Friday, 1 July 2022
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to two books by Mark Mordue: a sequel to Boy on Fire, the first volume of Mordue's biography of Nick Cave, published by HarperCollins in...
Adsett acquires The Authors’ Agent Archive
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Alex Adsett Literary will acquire The Authors’ Agent from Brian Cook, effective from 1 July. Cook, who will stay with the agency for a 12-month transition period before retiring, said...
THWUP, Giramondo acquire new Adam novel Archive
Thursday, 23 June 2022
Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary has sold ANZ rights to Audition, the fourth novel from Ockham Award-winning New Zealand author Pip Adam. NZ rights went to Adam's longstanding publisher Te...
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