Tuesday, 8 February 2022
To celebrate its 15th year, Mascara Literary Review will publish its first print anthology, in partnership with Ultimo Press and with support from Creative Victoria and the Australia Council for...

Monday, 7 February 2022
Hardie Grant Explore (HGE) has acquired world rights to Mama Africa, the autobiography of Rosemary Kariuki, the 2021 recipient of the Local Hero Australian of the Year Award. In 1999...

Thursday, 3 February 2022
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Girls Just Want to Have Funds, a personal finance book for women by Molly Benjamin. According to the publisher, Girls Just Want to...

Tuesday, 1 February 2022
Benjamin Stevenson’s third novel Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, a ‘stylish and edgy new murder mystery’ to be published locally by Penguin Random House Australia and New Zealand...

Tuesday, 1 February 2022
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ, UK and Commonwealth rights to The Only Child by Kayte Nunn, in a joint deal between Jill Marsal at Marsal Lyon, Hachette head of fiction...

Monday, 31 January 2022
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Cut, the first novel for adult readers by Sue White. Set against the backdrop of a major Melbourne hospital in the lead up...

Friday, 28 January 2022
HarperCollins Publishers Australia has acquired world rights to the novel Tiny Uncertain Miracles and a second nonfiction book by Michelle Johnston. The two-book deal was brokered by Martin Shaw of...

Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to a new contemporary crime novel by Sulari Gentill, The Woman in the Library, in a deal brokered by Anna Carmichael of Abner Stein....

Friday, 14 January 2022
NewSouth Publishing has announced the acquisition of a book on pandemics and biosecurity by Raina MacIntyre, professor of global security at UNSW’s Kirby Institute. ‘I’ve been researching pandemics and planning...

Thursday, 13 January 2022
Black Inc. has sold world English-language rights (ex ANZ) to the anthology We’ve Got This: Stories by disabled parents. Edited by writer and musician Eliza Hull, the book was sold...

Friday, 10 December 2021
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired ANZ rights to Nikki Mottram’s debut crime novel Crows Nest, via Benjamin Paz at Curtis Brown. UQP also acquired rights to the...

Thursday, 9 December 2021
Scribner has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Helen Sullivan’s nonfiction collection Calcium-Magnesium, via James Pullen at Wylie Agency. Calcium-Magnesium blends reportage and memoir to explore ‘how encounters with the...

Tuesday, 7 December 2021
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Gregory Day’s sixth novel The Bell of the World, in a deal brokered by Jeanne Ryckmans at Cameron’s Management. The Bell of the...

Thursday, 2 December 2021
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to a new novel by 2019 Miles Franklin winner Melissa Lucashenko in ‘a major, competitive deal’ brokered by Alex Adsett...

Wednesday, 1 December 2021
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Eliza Henry-Jones’s latest novel Salt and Skin, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson of Curtis Brown. Salt and Skin follows a troubled...

Tuesday, 30 November 2021
UK publisher Angry Robot has acquired world, translation and audio rights to Ledge, the adult fantasy debut by Australian BookTokker Stacey McEwan, via Amy Collins of Talcott Notch Literary Agency....

Monday, 29 November 2021
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has acquired world rights to the biography of Australian surfer Owen Wright. In 2015 Wright was on the brink of a world title only to have...

Friday, 19 November 2021
Scribner Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Black Convicts: How slavery shaped colonised Australia by journalist, filmmaker and author Santilla Chingaipe, via Grace Heifetz of Left Bank Literary. Based on...

Thursday, 18 November 2021
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to Break the News: The Daily Aus explains the stuff you need to know by Sam Koslowski and Zara Seidler, founders...

Monday, 15 November 2021
Simon & Schuster (S&S) has sold screen rights to Tim Ayliffe’s John Bailey crime thriller series to CJZ Productions, in a deal brokered by Jeanne Ryckmans of Cameron’s Management. The...

Wednesday, 3 November 2021
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to ‘part memoir, part manifesto’ The Patient Doctor by cancer survivor turned doctor, Ben Bravery, in a deal brokered by agent Catherine Drayton at...