A&U acquires accessible picture book
Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to All the Ways I See, by Nas Campanella and Eliza Hull, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown. Sophie...
HarperCollins acquires new Swann novel
Tuesday, 25 November 2025
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to Leah Swann’s novel Later, Only Love Remains, in a deal brokered by Gaby Naher at the Naher Agency. Described by the publisher as a...
Transit Lounge acquires new Kenway novel
Tuesday, 25 November 2025
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to East Coast Low, Lisa Kenway’s follow-up to All You Took from Me (also Transit Lounge, 2024). East Coast Low tells the story of...
ABC adapts “The Unbelieved”
Monday, 24 November 2025
Production has commenced on Dustfall, a six-part ABC adaptation of Vikki Petraitis’s 2022 crime novel The Unbelieved (A&U). Allen & Unwin sold film/TV rights to The Unbelieved to UK-based Moonriver TV,...
UQP sells UK and Commonwealth rights to “Dead Ink”
Monday, 24 November 2025
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada and ANZ) rights to Jordan Prosser’s Blue Giant to Dead Ink Books. According to the publisher, Blue Giant...
NewSouth acquires Grant’s latest book
Monday, 24 November 2025
NewSouth Publishing has acquired world rights to author and broadcaster Stan Grant’s When Words Fail Us: Truth beyond time, in a deal brokered by Tara Wynne at Curtis Brown. The...
PRH acquires debut Crozier novel
Thursday, 20 November 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to vampire romantasy Vow of Eternal Night by debut author and PRH marketing executive Lily Crozier. PRH rights manager Sarah McDuling...
HarperCollins acquires new Whiting novel
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
HarperCollins ANZ has acquired world rights to The Nocturnals, a new novel by journalist and author Frances Whiting. According to the publisher, The Nocturnals tells the story of a close-knit group from...
Atlantic acquires Cornish’s “The Missing Mother”
Tuesday, 18 November 2025
Atlantic Books Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Mali Cornish’s adult novel The Missing Mother in a deal brokered by Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. The publisher describes The Missing...
Wiley acquires Lishman’s next nonfiction title
Monday, 17 November 2025
Wiley has acquired world rights to self-help title Only You by Marny Lishman, via Simone Landes of TLS Talent. According to the publisher, Only You is designed for readers experiencing...
Wombat acquires Page’s interactive novel
Thursday, 13 November 2025
Wombat Books has acquired world rights to Gabriella Page’s The Nardi Puzzle, an interactive middle-grade story that allows readers to solve puzzles alongside the characters. The novel follows Sebastian Walker’s...
WestWords acquires Lee’s debut novel
Thursday, 13 November 2025
WestWords Books has acquired adult novel Bound by Samantha WL Lee. Set in four countries – China, Malaysia, Britain and Australia – and extending over more than a century, Bound...
A&U acquires Flynn biography
Thursday, 13 November 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Errol Flynn, Patricia A O’Brien’s biography of Australian-born Hollywood actor Errol Flynn, known for his swashbuckling roles and controversial off-screen life....
Wiley acquires O’Connell’s “Unscript”
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
Wiley has acquired world rights to broadcaster Christian O’Connell’s personal development book Unscript. Unscript strips away “the ghost scripts that keep us disconnected, through a mix of vibrant storytelling, authentic...
Riveted acquires Gordon’s latest children’s book
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
Riveted Press has acquired world rights to The Midlands by Kate Gordon, in a deal brokered by Alex Adsett Literary. The Midlands takes place during the First World War as 11-year-old Lorna Whittle and her 4...
Affirm acquires Keegan’s second novel
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Lauren Keegan’s second novel, The Woman in the Seal Skin. Set on a Scottish island, the novel follows Malie, who grew up hearing...
NewSouth acquires Kale’s debut
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
NewSouth Publishing has acquired world rights to Foreign Return: On Art and Inhabitation, the debut literary nonfiction work by writer and cultural critic Neha Kale. Kale migrated from India to...
Pantera acquires Bassingthwaighte memoir
Tuesday, 11 November 2025
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to the memoir Love Like This by actor and singer Natalie Bassingthwaighte. The publisher described Love Like This as an “unflinchingly honest and intimate memoir...
Affirm Press acquires Moloney’s “Why We Garden”
Tuesday, 11 November 2025
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Why We Garden, a new title by ABC Gardening Australia presenter Hannah Moloney. According to the publisher, Why We Garden investigates why Australians...
HGCP announces Zac Power film adaptation
Monday, 10 November 2025
Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing (HGCP) has announced the film adaptation of the Zac Power series (HI Larry) is slated for release in early 2027. “The film follows Zac as he...
Wombat Books acquires Gemmill’s middle-grade
Thursday, 6 November 2025
Wombat Books has acquired world rights to The Ghost Horse of Snowy River, a middle-grade novel by Stef Gemmill. According to the publisher, The Ghost Horse of Snowy River follows 12-year-old...
A&U acquires Ham’s first nonfiction book
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Allen & Unwin has acquired world rights to Look After Your Feet by Rosalie Ham, via literary agency Jenny Darling and Associates. In this first nonfiction book, the author of...
HarperCollins acquires Bailey memoir
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Flamingos Aren’t Born Pink, a memoir by Robin Bailey. Described by the publisher as “a moving and uplifting memoir on heartbreak, grief and finding...
Ultimo acquires Moriarty time travel novel at auction
Monday, 3 November 2025
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights at auction to Time Travel For Beginners, Jaclyn Moriarty’s new novel for adults, in a deal brokered by Tara Wynne of Curtis Brown Australia....
Ultimo acquires Ash’s Mantle
Thursday, 30 October 2025
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to novelist Romy Ash’s new work, Mantle, in a deal brokered by Michaela McGuire of a4 Literary. Mantle is a literary eco-thriller set in...
Bakers Lane Books acquires McGuinness YA novel
Wednesday, 29 October 2025
Bakers Lane Books has acquired world rights to Violet Town, a young adult novel by Bryony McGuinness. Violet Town follows Cate Hawkins, a longstanding resident of Hickory’s Orphanage, as she...
A&U acquires Stroud’s “The Angry Wives Club”
Wednesday, 29 October 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to The Angry Wives Club, a novel by Gabbie Stroud. The Angry Wives Club follows three women “quietly planning a revolution”, said the...
Upswell acquires Curtin novel
Wednesday, 29 October 2025
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights to Six Days by Amanda Curtin. “Six Days creates a character in Daniel, an expat Australian who has lived in Paris for longer than anywhere...
HarperCollins acquires Crowe’s nonfiction work
Tuesday, 28 October 2025
HarperCollins has acquired Australian rights to Where the Light Gets In, a nonfiction book by Ben Crowe. Where the Light Gets In, a book about personal growth, “explains how 9...
Hachette acquires Wilkinson’s debut historical nonfiction
Monday, 27 October 2025
Hachette Australia has acquired The Titanic Story of Evelyn by journalist, broadcaster and author Lisa Wilkinson, via the Fordham Agency. The Titanic Story of Evelyn follows the life of South...
