A&U acquires The Grade Cricketer book
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to The Grade Cricketer: Alphas, Champs and Chop Kings, a new nonfiction title from Sam Perry and Ian Higgins. Since debuting on Twitter...
Transit Lounge acquires ‘Rite of Spring’ by Kris Kneen
Thursday, 15 May 2025
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Rite of Spring, a new novel by Kris Kneen, via Jane Novak Literary Agency. The novel follows a couple, Miranda and Richard, who...
Larrikin House acquires ‘Ultra Violet’ sequel
Wednesday, 14 May 2025
Larrikin House has acquired rights to graphic novel Ultra Violet: Escape from Uranus, written by Cristy Burne and illustrated by Rebel Challenger. According to the publisher, in this 'STEM-meets-adventure graphic...
Echo Publishing acquires Ayliffe’s crime standalone
Wednesday, 14 May 2025
Echo Publishing has acquired world rights to Dark Desert Road by Tim Ayliffe, via Jeanne Ryckmans at Key People Literary Management. According to the publisher, Dark Desert Road is Ayliffe's first...
Larrikin House acquires Barkla’s ‘Robo-teacher’
Tuesday, 13 May 2025
Larrikin House has acquired Robo-teacher, a picture book written by Charlotte Barkla (All Bodies Are Good Bodies, Little Hare) and illustrated by Gabrielle Petruso. According to the publisher, Robo-teacher follows...
Pantera acquires Sheppard’s ‘Yeah the Boys’
Tuesday, 13 May 2025
Pantera Press has acquired ANZ rights for Yeah the Boys, an adult fiction title from author Holden Sheppard, via Gaby Naher at The Naher Agency. According to the publisher, Yeah...
Fourth Estate acquires Dalton’s new novel
Monday, 12 May 2025
Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Australia, has acquired world rights to Gravity Let Me Go, a novel by Trent Dalton. Gravity Let Me Go follows journalist Noah Cork and...
PRH acquires special edition of ‘Bluey: The Sign’
Thursday, 8 May 2025
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has announced the forthcoming publication of special edition children's book Bluey: The Sign. According to the publisher, The Sign will be based on the television episode of...
Text acquires Lohrey’s novel ‘Capture’
Wednesday, 7 May 2025
Text Publishing has acquired world rights to Capture by Amanda Lohrey, via Lyn Tranter. Capture follows psychiatrist James Mather beginning a research project about people who claim to have been...
WestWords acquires Burnham debut novel
Tuesday, 6 May 2025
WestWords Books has acquired world rights to Swallow by Alexandria Burnham. The first in a trilogy, Swallow is described by the publisher as 'the true story of William Swallow – Australian convict and the...
UWA Publishing acquires Byrne debut ‘The Warrumbar’
Monday, 5 May 2025
UWA Publishing has acquired world rights to The Warrumbar, William J Byrne’s debut adult fiction novel. The novel, which is inspired by Byrne's family history, is set in a small...
WestWords acquires Curic debut novel
Monday, 5 May 2025
WestWords Books has acquired world rights to debut novel Sing to Me by Jelena Curic. ‘Sing to Me tells the story of Pero, a Croatian immigrant, father, husband, musician, and philanderer...
Melbourne Books acquires women’s cricket nonfiction title
Thursday, 1 May 2025
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Full Corset and Stockings: A History of Women’s Cricket by historian and musician Craig Horne. 'Full Corset and Stockings details the history of women’s cricket...
Eagle Books acquires Dubosarsky short story collection
Thursday, 1 May 2025
Eagle Books (an imprint of Christmas Press) and Roffo Court Press (in the UK) have jointly acquired world rights to Life and Breath, a collection of short stories for upper...
A&U acquires Trip in a Van’s Bucket List Experiences
Thursday, 1 May 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Trip in a Van’s Bucket List Experiences by Bec and Justin Lorrimer. ‘After seven years of full-time travel in their van with...
Transit Lounge acquires new novel from Carmel Bird
Wednesday, 30 April 2025
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Crimson Velvet Heart, a new novel by Carmel Bird (Love Letter to Lola, Family Skeleton). ‘This sumptuous historical novel centres on Marie Adelaide...
Pitt to star in Winton’s ‘The Riders’ film adaptation
Wednesday, 30 April 2025
Scott Free Productions will begin production of the film adaptation of Tim Winton’s novel The Riders (Penguin), with Brad Pitt set to star as protagonist Fred Scully. Edward Berger (Conclave)...
Magi Pictures acquires Judy Nunn’s ‘Khaki Town’
Monday, 28 April 2025
Magi Pictures has acquired the rights to Khaki Town by Judy Nunn (Penguin) via Karen Reid of Reid Books. 'Set in 1942 Townsville, North Queensland, this murder mystery unveils a...
Affirm acquires Croydon debut
Thursday, 24 April 2025
Affirm Press has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to The Turing Protocol by Nick Croydon in a two-book deal, via The Story Factory’s founder, Shane Salerno. 'In the midst of...
HarperCollins acquires ‘Frosty’
Wednesday, 23 April 2025
HarperCollins Australia has acquired world rights to Frosty, a memoir by motor-sport athlete Mark Winterbottom. The memoir will be co-written with James Phelps. 'From his emergence from the suburbs of...
A&U acquires The Australian Wars
Tuesday, 22 April 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to The Australian Wars, edited by Rachel Perkins, Stephen Gapps, Mina Murray and Henry Reynolds. The book will be drawn from Blackfella...
Echo Publishing announces new Heather Morris novel
Thursday, 17 April 2025
Echo Publishing has acquired ANZ rights to The Wish, a contemporary novel by Heather Morris. The Wish is Morris's first contemporary novel, and introduces Jesse, a young teenager who, despite...
Hardie Grant acquires Wankernomics
Wednesday, 16 April 2025
Hardie Grant has acquired world rights to Wankernomics by comedians James Schloeffel and Charles Firth. Wankernomics is ‘the hilarious must-have handbook for anyone who has ever had to endure the buzzwords,...
Upswell acquires Vincent hybrid memoir/prose poem/history
Wednesday, 16 April 2025
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights to Fourteen Ways of Looking, a 'hybrid memoir/prose poem/history' by Erin Vincent, with US rights sold to Deep Vellum and UK rights to CB...
PRH acquires Carter middle-grade series
Tuesday, 15 April 2025
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired ANZ rights for Reece Carter's new middle-grade series The Nightmare League, in a six-publisher auction brokered by Gemma Cooper from Gemma Cooper Literary....
Atria Books acquires debut Peppernell novel
Tuesday, 15 April 2025
Atria Books Australia has acquired world rights (ex North America) to poet Courtney Peppernell's debut novel, The Last Poem. 'Bestselling author and poet Wren Paisley is a mess after the...
Fremantle acquires Winton picture book
Wednesday, 9 April 2025
Fremantle Press has acquired world rights to Ningaloo: Australia’s Wild Wonder by Tim Winton, with illustrations by Cindy Lane, in a deal brokered by Jenny Darling of Jenny Darling &...
A&U acquires new Mackay nonfiction
Tuesday, 8 April 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to a new nonfiction title, Just Saying, from author and social psychologist Hugh Mackay. Just Saying follows on from Mackay's 2024 release, The...
UQP acquires Caddy historical YA
Wednesday, 2 April 2025
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Meg Caddy’s historical YA novel A Flash in the Dust, in a deal brokered by Abigail Nathan at Alex Adsett Literary....
A&U acquires Payne memoir
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Ride On by Michelle Payne with Angus Fontaine, in a deal brokered by Michael Rivette and Nanette Moulton at Rivette Moulton Broadbent. In...
