Text acquires debuts from Bishop, McPhee-Browne Archive
Friday, 27 July 2018
Text Publishing has acquired two fiction debuts from Melbourne-based writers. Text acquired world rights to Alice Bishop’s debut short-story collection, A Constant Hum, which explores the Black Saturday bushfires and...
Lothian acquires two books in YA fantasy series by Kostakis Archive
Thursday, 26 July 2018
Lothian head of children’s publishing Jeanmarie Morosin has acquired ANZ/UK rights to two books in a fantasy series by Australian YA author Will Kostakis, via Sarah Williams at Sophie Hicks...
Greer’s ‘On Rape’ sold to Bloomsbury UK Archive
Thursday, 26 July 2018
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) has sold UK and Irish rights to Germaine Greer’s On Rape to Bloomsbury UK. Bloomsbury won the rights at auction after 12 UK publishers reviewed the submission....
A&U to publish Thai cave rescue book in October Archive
Tuesday, 24 July 2018
Allen & Unwin has acquired world rights to The Great Cave Rescue: The Extraordinary Story of the Thai Boy Soccer Team Trapped in a Cave for 18 Days by journalist...
‘Scrublands’ optioned for TV Archive
Monday, 23 July 2018
Chris Hammer’s crime-fiction debut Scrublands (Allen & Unwin) has been optioned for television by producers Ian Collie of Easy Tiger and Martha Coleman of RevLover, via Grace Heifetz at Curtis...
HarperCollins signs Treasure for two-book deal Archive
Wednesday, 18 July 2018
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to White Horses by commercial fiction author Rachael Treasure in a two-book deal, via Margaret Connolly at Margaret Connolly and Associates. White Horses tells the...
NLA Publishing acquires ‘shadow play’ picture book Archive
Wednesday, 18 July 2018
NLA Publishing has acquired world rights to picture book Hiding Moon, written by Emma Allen and illustrated by Sher Rill Ng. Publisher Susan Hall acquired rights directly from Allen, while...
Affirm Press acquires Fiona Hardy’s debut middle-grade novel ‘Rosebud’ Archive
Wednesday, 18 July 2018
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to debut middle-grade novel Rosebud by Readings bookseller Fiona Hardy. Rights were negotiated by agent Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management. Due to be published...
NewSouth to publish official history of Australian operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor Archive
Wednesday, 18 July 2018
The Australian War Memorial (AWM) has awarded a tender to NewSouth Publishing to publish The Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq & Afghanistan and Australian Peacekeeping Operations in East...
Scribble sells North American rights to ‘Under the Love Umbrella’ Archive
Wednesday, 18 July 2018
Scribe’s children’s imprint, Scribble, has sold North American rights to Under the Love Umbrella (Davina Bell, illus by Allison Colpoys) to Simply Read Books. Rights to the title have previously...
Castagna’s ‘No More Boats’ sold into North America Archive
Tuesday, 17 July 2018
Giramondo has sold North American rights to Felicity Castagna’s No More Boats to Europa Editions editor-in-chief Michael Reynolds in a pre-empt, via Rach Crawford at literary agency MacKenzie Wolf. The Miles Franklin-shortlisted...
PRH acquires sequel to ‘The Woolgrower’s Companion’ Archive
Monday, 16 July 2018
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired Oceania rights to a sequel to Joy Rhoades' The Woolgrower’s Companion (Bantam), in a deal brokered by Stephanie Koven from Cullen Stanley International in...
Scale Free Network sells ‘The Invisible War’ to US Archive
Friday, 13 July 2018
Melbourne-based art-science collaborative and micro-publisher Scale Free Network (SFN) has sold North American rights to the graphic novel The Invisible War (Ailsa Wild, Briony Barr, Gregory Crocetti et al) to...
Hachette acquires ‘Lambs of God’ ahead of TV miniseries adaptation Archive
Friday, 13 July 2018
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to 1997 novel Lambs of God (Marele Day), ahead of the release of a four-part TV miniseries adaptation of the novel produced by Foxtel....
PRH sells North American rights to 13-year-old slam poet’s debut Archive
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has sold North American rights to Limelight by 13-year-old slam poet Solli Raphael to Andrews McMeel Universal (AMU). AMU executive editor Patty Rice acquired the rights...
Walker Books to publish YA anthology by LGBTQIA+ authors Archive
Tuesday, 10 July 2018
Walker Books Australia has acquired world rights to an anthology of YA short stories by LGBTQIA+ Australian authors. Due to be published in June 2019, Kindred: A Queer #LoveOzYA Anthology...
‘Freedom Swimmer’ optioned for film Archive
Monday, 9 July 2018
Wai Chim’s YA novel Freedom Swimmer (A&U) has been optioned for film by writer and director Ben Ockrent at Micro Productions UK. Agent Brian Cook, of literary agency The Authors’...
UQP sells ‘The Geography of Friendship’ to UK Archive
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold UK and Irish rights to Sally Piper’s The Geography of Friendship and 2014 debut novel Grace’s Table to Legend Press, in a two-book...
Five delegates receive OzCo funding to attend Shanghai book fair Archive
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
The Australia Council has announced the five Australian publishing recipients it is sponsoring to attend the China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair (CCBF) in November. The five delegates are: Jacinta...
‘Mr Bambuckle’s Remarkables’ sold to US in three-book deal Archive
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has sold North American rights to Tim Harris’ children’s book series ‘Mr Bambuckle’s Remarkables’ (illus by James Hart, Random House) to Sourcebooks in a three-book...
ABC Books signs gardening book by Costa Georgiadis Archive
Monday, 2 July 2018
ABC Books has acquired the first book by landscape architect and Gardening Australia host Costa Georgiadis. The as-yet-untitled gardening book will possess Georgiadis’ ‘unique, inimitable and delightful approach to nurturing...
Hachette signs FitzSimons for six-book deal Archive
Monday, 2 July 2018
Hachette Australia has signed a six-book deal with author Peter FitzSimons. Negotiated directly with FitzSimons, the six-book deal will begin with Mutiny on the Bounty, which tells the story of...
Text sells US, UK rights to Collette debut; Hillman picked up by Faber Archive
Thursday, 28 June 2018
Text Publishing has sold North American rights to Katherine Collette’s forthcoming debut The Helpline to Tara Parsons, editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster’s (S&S) Touchstone division in the US, in a...
UQP acquires Birch’s new novel ‘The White Girl’ Archive
Thursday, 28 June 2018
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired author Tony Birch’s third novel, The White Girl. World (including translation) rights were acquired by UQP publishing director and acting-CEO Madonna Duffy, as...
‘Boy Swallows Universe’ to be published globally through HarperCollins Archive
Thursday, 28 June 2018
HarperCollins Australia has announced a global deal for Trent Dalton’s debut Boy Swallows Universe that will see the book published through HarperCollins companies across major English and translation markets. HarperCollins...
Hardie Grant acquires Pascoe’s travel guide Archive
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Hardie Grant Travel has acquired world rights to a travel guide book by Bunurong writer Bruce Pascoe. The as-yet-untitled book will look at places in Australia ‘where evidence of Indigenous...
Goldin’s escape room thriller attracts six-figure North American deal Archive
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Australian author Megan Goldin’s second novel, The Escape Room (Michael Joseph), has sold into North America in a six-figure, two-book deal negotiated by David Gernert of the Gernert Agency on...
Ventura acquires world rights to d’Alpuget’s ‘Birth of the Plantagenets’ Archive
Tuesday, 26 June 2018
Ventura Press has acquired world rights to Blanche D’Alpuget’s ‘Birth of the Plantagenets’ series. The first two books in the series, The Young Lion and The Lion Rampant, will be...
NewSouth sells world English rights for ‘Wild Sea’ Archive
Friday, 22 June 2018
NewSouth Publishing has sold world English rights (ex ANZ) to Joy McCann’s Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean to the University of Chicago Press. NewSouth publisher Elspeth Menzies...
Clifford thriller sells to US Archive
Tuesday, 19 June 2018
Melbourne author and bookseller Aoife Clifford’s forthcoming thriller, Second Sight (S&S, July), has sold to US publisher Pegasus Books for publication in the US Summer of 2019. North American rights...
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