Affirm signs Douglas’s ‘Cosy Vegan’ cookbook
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to the cookbook Cosy Vegan by Liz Douglas. Affirm described the book as ‘the ultimate kitchen companion for those wanting to explore a plant-based lifestyle,...
Transit Lounge acquires Raszewski’s second novel
Thursday, 17 October 2024
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to For One Visitor at a Time, the second novel by Melbourne-based author Monica Raszewski. For One Visitor at a Time tells the story of...
A&U acquires Chung memoir
Thursday, 17 October 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to the memoir Chinese Parents Don’t Say I Love You by Candice Chung via Grace Heifetz at Left Bank Literary. In describing the memoir, the publisher...
Black Inc. acquires Grenville’s nonfiction project ‘Unsettled’
Thursday, 17 October 2024
Black Inc. has acquired ANZ rights to Kate Grenville’s nonfiction project Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place. Said Grenville: ‘I’ve been circling this book for twenty years. Researching and...
Pan Macmillan acquires Kerr’s adult fiction debut
Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Pan Macmillan Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Kay Kerr’s untitled adult fiction debut, via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management. In the novel, ‘a burnt-out and unravelling young...
UQP acquires Field’s ‘The Eagle and the Crow’
Wednesday, 16 October 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to J M Field’s book The Eagle and the Crow, which ‘records and provides important insights into Indigenous ways of knowing...
UWAP acquires Negri’s YA verse novel
Monday, 14 October 2024
University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Julianne Negri’s young adult verse novel Hunting Bears, via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management. Hunting Bears is...
A&U acquires ‘Runt’ sequel
Monday, 14 October 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Runt and the Diabolical Dognapping, Craig Silvey’s sequel to Runt, via Lesley Thorne at Aitken Alexander Associates. Runt and the Diabolical...
A&U acquires second Spencer novel
Thursday, 10 October 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Broke Road, the second novel from Matthew Spencer, via Catherine Drayton at InkWell Management Literary Agency. Broke Road is set in the...
HarperCollins acquires Ablett memoir
Wednesday, 9 October 2024
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to ‘inspirational memoir’ One Day at a Time by Jordan Ablett. ‘On a quiet Melbourne afternoon in the eerie early days of the pandemic, young...
Affirm acquires Brownlee rom-com
Wednesday, 9 October 2024
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to Victoria Brownlee’s foodie rom-com novel, Eat Your Heart Out, via Linwood Messina Literary Agency. Eat Your Heart Out follows six competing food writers...
Hachette acquires Harry middle-grade verse novel
Monday, 7 October 2024
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Pip Harry’s middle-grade verse novel Drift, via agent Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. According to the author, Drift tells the story of Nate and...
HarperCollins acquires three Ringland books
Monday, 7 October 2024
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to three new books by Holly Ringland, via Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. The first book scheduled for release under the deal is a...
A&U acquires Gorry memoir
Thursday, 3 October 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Katrina Gorry: A Matildas Hero’s Story of Football, Motherhood and Breaking Down Barriers, written by Katrina Gorry with Robert Wainwright, in...
PRH acquires Chidgey dystopian fiction ‘The Book of Guilt’
Thursday, 26 September 2024
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired Australian rights to dystopian novel The Book of Guilt by Aotearoa New Zealand writer Catherine Chidgey. The novel will be published in New...
HQ acquires James debut, ‘Second Skin’
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
HQ, a division of HarperCollins Australia, has acquired ANZ rights to Arianne James’ debut gothic novel, Second Skin, via Abigail Nathan at Alex Adsett Literary. A finalist in the 2024 ASA/HQ Fiction...
PRH acquires Westerfeld, Larbalestier novel ‘The Mortons’
Tuesday, 24 September 2024
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired ANZ rights to The Mortons by Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestier in a two-book deal at auction, via Jill Grinberg Literary Management. The Mortons was...
Affirm acquires Lefevre’s memoir
Tuesday, 24 September 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Carol Lefevre’s memoir Bloomer, via literary agent Fran Moore. Lefevre is a visiting research fellow at the University of Adelaide, where she gained...
A&U acquires Schmitz debut novel
Thursday, 19 September 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Toby Schmitz’s debut novel, The Empress Murders, via Edwina Stuart at HLA Management. The publisher described The Empress Murders as a...
Echo acquires Maynard novels
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
Echo Publishing has acquired world rights to two novels by debut author Anna Maynard, via Sally Bird at Calidris Literary Agency. The first novel, Dancing with Bees, is described by...
Hachette acquires Mansour-Nahra debut novel
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
Hachette Australia has acquired ANZ rights to Jessica Mansour-Nahra’s debut novel, with a working title of The Farm, in a five-way auction, in a two-book deal via Marina de Pass...
Melbourne Books acquires Tania debut cookbook
Monday, 16 September 2024
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Christy Tania’s first cookbook, Imagine: Creating Desserts with Christy Tania. The publisher said that the cookbook features over 50 base recipes for ‘adventurous and...
Riveted Press acquires Teow illustrated book series
Monday, 16 September 2024
Riveted Press has acquired worldwide rights to five picture books in the series The Book of Kin by author/illustrator Tamlyn Teow, beginning with the book SoXiety. In this ‘almost-wordless’ picture...
Atlantic acquires new Dettmann novel
Thursday, 12 September 2024
Atlantic Books Australia, a division of Allen & Unwin (A&U), has acquired ANZ rights to a new novel by Jessica Dettmann, in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown....
Smith Street acquires Davies cookbook
Wednesday, 11 September 2024
Smith Street Books has acquired world rights to a new Japanese cookbook by Emiko Davies, via Lou Johnson at Key People Literary Management. Davies is an Australian-Japanese food writer, photographer, author...
Ultimo acquires Reid’s third novel
Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights to Diana Reid’s third novel, Signs of Damage. In Signs of Damage, 13-year-old Cass goes missing while the Kelly family is holidaying in the...
UQP sells Bigna’s debut to S&S BFYR
Thursday, 5 September 2024
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has sold North American rights to Sandy Bigna’s debut middle-grade verse novel, Little Bones, to Krista Vitola, executive editor at Simon & Schuster Books for...
A&U acquires Clutton novel in two-book deal
Wednesday, 4 September 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to the ‘uplit’ novel The Remarkable Truths of Alfie Bains by Sarah Clutton, via Melanie Ostell from the Melanie Ostell Literary Agency,...
S&S acquires Dix memoir
Tuesday, 3 September 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to The Promise, the memoir of Arnold Dix, an international barrister, scientist and engineer who spearheaded the rescue of 41 trapped...
Simon & Schuster acquires Cottle YA series
Monday, 2 September 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to two books in a new YA series by debut author Ruby Jean Cottle, via agents Lou Johnson and Belinda Bolliger...
