ABC Books acquires rights to Mitchell Johnson autobiography Archive
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
ABC Books has acquired the rights to Australian cricketer Mitchell Johnson’s as-yet-untitled autobiography, to be published in the second half of 2016. ABC Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Australia, announced...
Bloomsbury acquires world rights to Melbourne duo’s picture book Archive
Tuesday, 17 November 2015
Bloomsbury USA has acquired world rights to Melbourne-based author and illustrator team Jessica Walton and Dougal MacPherson’s Introducing Teddy, to be published globally in June 2016. In a statement the...
Tuffield acquires Valentish’s ‘addiction memoir’ for Black Inc. Archive
Friday, 30 October 2015
Publisher Aviva Tuffield has acquired her first nonfiction title for Black Inc., an ‘addiction memoir’ from journalist and Cherry Bomb author Jenny Valentish. A Girl’s Guide to Addiction and Recovery,...
Attendance up at Frankfurt Book Fair 2015; ‘strong’ interest in translation rights Archive
Tuesday, 20 October 2015
Professional attendance at the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair was approximately level with 2014, with 140,474 attendees this year compared to 140,291 last year, reports Publishers Weekly. Total attendance was up...
Two thirds of Australian rights managers and literary agents report income growth, according to survey Archive
Monday, 12 October 2015
The rights market has taken a positive turn over the past year, according to Books+Publishing’s annual survey of Australian literary agents and rights managers, published in its Frankfurt Book Fair...
International book deals for Australian YA author’s debut novel; PRH to publish locally Archive
Monday, 28 September 2015
Penguin Random House (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to Australian YA author Krystal Sutherland’s debut novel We Were Never Here. The rights were acquired in a two-book deal through agent...
Pan Macmillan acquires Vic Prem’s Unpublished Manuscript winner Archive
Tuesday, 15 September 2015
Pan Macmillan has acquired The Dry by Jane Harper, the winner of the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, in a three-book deal from Clare Forster at Curtis...
PRH buys world rights to bestselling self-published children’s book Archive
Thursday, 3 September 2015
Penguin Random House (PRH) have acquired world English-language rights to the self-published picture book The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep (Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin) in a three-book deal with the...
Inkerman & Blunt acquires five Nick Earls novellas Archive
Monday, 17 August 2015
Melbourne-based small publisher Inkerman & Blunt has acquired five novellas by Nick Earls, to be published over five months beginning in June 2016. Publisher Donna Ward told Books+Publishing that Inkerman...
HarperCollins acquires rights to book by NZ ‘social media sensation’ Archive
Friday, 17 July 2015
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Jamie’s World: They Let Me Write a Book! by New Zealand ‘social media sensation’ Jamie Curry.The publisher has described Curry’s book as ‘a journey through her mind...
MidnightSun signs first international rights deals Archive
Monday, 6 July 2015
Adelaide-based small press MidnightSun Publishing has signed its first three international rights deals.The publisher has sold US rights to Amanda Hickie’s thriller An Ordinary Epidemic to Little, Brown in a...
Canongate acquires rights to Nick Cave title Archive
Monday, 23 March 2015
Canongate has acquired the rights to a new book by musician Nick Cave The Sick Bag Song will be published on 8 April and will be sold online-only from a dedicated...
HarperCollins acquires rights to Tim Cahill autobiography Archive
Tuesday, 17 February 2015
HarperCollins has acquired the rights to the autobiography of Australian soccer player Tim Cahill.Cahill has played over 80 games for Australia and is the country’s top goal scorer, including five World Cup goals....
HarperCollins acquires memoir by Rosie Batty Archive
Wednesday, 10 December 2014
HarperCollins has announced it has acquired world rights to a memoir by Rosie Batty. Rosie’s Story, written with Bryce Corbett, will be published in late 2015. ‘We see Rosie’s Story as...
Hachette acquires self-published children’s fantasy-adventure series Archive
Friday, 21 November 2014
Hachette Australia has acquired a self-published children’s fantasy-adventure series from Brisbane brother and sister Nicholas and Alison Lochel.The four-book ‘Zarkora’ series ‘is the story of brothers Neleik and Ervine Fyrelit,...
A&U acquires novel on F Scott Fitzgerald Archive
Tuesday, 18 November 2014
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has signed a novel following the final years of The Great Gatsby author F Scott Fitzgerald, reports the Bookseller.A&U acquired UK, Commonwealth and ANZ rights to...
A&U acquires new novel from US-based Australian author Archive
Thursday, 6 November 2014
Allen & Unwin has acquired Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) and UK/Commonwealth rights to Australian author Dominic Smith’s new novel At the Edge of a Wood.The US-based author’s previous novels...
Bertelsmann to acquire Relias Learning Archive
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
Multinational media company Bertelsmann will acquire US elearning provider Relias Learning, reports the Bookseller. Bertelsmann said in a statement that it will spend ‘in the mid-hundreds of millions’ of US...
A&U acquires ‘Cliff Hardy’ backlist Archive
Monday, 13 October 2014
Allen & Unwin has bought the rights to 16 out-of-print titles from Peter Corris’ ‘Cliff Hardy’ series, and will publish the titles in December.A spokesperson for Allen & Unwin told...
Picador acquires debut by award-winning screenwriter Archive
Thursday, 2 October 2014
Pan Macmillan imprint Picador has announced it has acquired local rights to a debut novel by award-winning Australian screenwriter Shirley Barrett.Barrett’s scripts include Love Serenade and South Solitary. She has...
Bloomsbury Spark acquires first Australian novel Archive
Monday, 29 September 2014
Bloomsbury Australia has acquired the first novel by an Australian to be published under its ebook-only Bloomsbury Spark imprint. Vanessa Barnevald’s young adult novel This is Your Afterlife is the...
HarperCollins acquires 24-year-old author’s debut in three-book deal Archive
Monday, 22 September 2014
HarperCollins has acquired a debut novel by Eliza Henry-Jones as part of a three-book deal.In the Quiet, acquired via the Calidris Literary Agency, is ‘a heart-breaking, tender and life-affirming novel...
Text acquires YA novel by Currie Archive
Monday, 8 September 2014
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to a YA novel by Christopher Currie. The publisher described the book as ‘a YA novel of distinction, with a memorable young lesbian narrator’....
Scribe acquires crime thrillers Archive
Wednesday, 27 August 2014
Scribe has acquired world rights in two crime thrillers by Melbourne writer and librarian J M Green. Good Money was shortlisted in the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an...
Madman acquires film rights to ‘Quota’ Archive
Wednesday, 27 August 2014
Film rights to Quota by Jock Serong (Text) have been optioned by Madman. ‘We are delighted that Madman has optioned Jock Serong’s acclaimed debut Quota, and look forward to working closely...
Penguin acquires debut novel from Hayes Archive
Thursday, 21 August 2014
Penguin Random House has acquired ANZ rights to Antonia Hayes’ debut novel Relativity at auction.The publisher described the novel as ‘an irresistible story about science, love, unbreakable bonds and irreversible...
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