Monday, 21 March 2022
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired Non-Essential Work, the third poetry collection by Sydney-based Arab Australian poet Omar Sakr. UQP says Sakr's 'much-anticipated' follow-up to his 2019 collection The...

Wednesday, 16 March 2022
Walker Books Australia has acquired world rights to the picture book First There Was Me, Then There Was You by Yvonne Sewankambo, in a four-book deal via Sarah McKenzie at...

Tuesday, 15 March 2022
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to The Bachelorette star Brooke Blurton's memoir Big Love, in a publishing deal across all editions including audio. Blurton is also collaborating with Bigambul and Wakka...

Thursday, 10 March 2022
MacLehose Press, an imprint of Hachette-owned UK publisher Quercus, has acquired world rights to two new novels by Peter Papathanasiou in a deal brokered by Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary....

Tuesday, 8 March 2022
Black Inc. has acquired ANZ rights to Australian Gospel, the second work of nonfiction by Lech Blaine, via Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. In 1983, a three-year-old boy named Elijah is...

Friday, 4 March 2022
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to The New Rulebook, a work of illustrated nonfiction by psychologist and educator Chris Cheers. Cheers gained thousands of Instagram followers during the rolling Melbourne...

Monday, 28 February 2022
Hardie Grant Books (HGB) has acquired world rights to the memoir Tripping Over Myself by Australian comedian, actor and writer Shaun Micallef. Micallef has appeared on Australian television since 1994,...

Tuesday, 22 February 2022
Kyle Perry’s debut novel The Bluffs (Penguin) been optioned for screen adaptation as a limited TV series by First Option Pictures. Executive producer Mark Morrissey, associate producer Piper Morrissey and...

Monday, 21 February 2022
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to The Bookseller’s Apprentice, the prequel to The Grandest Bookshop in the World, by Amelia Mellor. Set in 1871, The Bookseller’s Apprentice follows 12-year-old...

Tuesday, 15 February 2022
Ultimo Press has acquired world rights to a new novel by Sophie Cunningham in a two-book deal brokered by Jane Novak at Jane Novak Literary Agency. Cunningham’s first novel in...

Monday, 14 February 2022
Hardie Grant Books has acquired world rights to Tinder Translator: An A–Z of modern misyogyny by Aileen Barratt, via Jacinta di Mase at Jacinta di Mase Management. Based on Barratt’s...

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...