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S&S acquires McEwan romantasy duology 

Photograph of Stacey McEwan Tuesday, 7 May 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia has acquired ANZ rights to a two-book romantasy series by Stacey McEwan, via an exclusive submission from Amy Collins at Talcott Notch Literary. S&S Australia associate...

Allen & Unwin acquires new Bublitz thriller 

Photograph of Jacqueline Bublitz Monday, 6 May 2024
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Leave the Girls Behind, a new novel by Jacqueline Bublitz, via Cara Lee Simpson at Peters Fraser + Dunlop. Bublitz’s book...

Affirm acquires Hodge’s ‘Top Knocks’

Tuesday, 30 April 2024
Affirm Press has acquired ANZ rights to Australian cricketer and commentator Brad Hodge’s nonfiction book Top Knocks, via TLA. The publisher said that Top Knocks will count down 20 of...

Upswell acquires Spirovski debut, ‘White Hibiscus’ 

Wednesday, 24 April 2024
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights for White Hibiscus: A portrait in words, the debut work of visual artist Loribelle Spirovski. Publisher Terri-ann White described the book as ‘a poetic...

Pantera acquires Sursok memoir 

Photograph of Tammin Sursok Wednesday, 17 April 2024
Pantera has acquired world rights to an as-yet-untitled memoir from Tammin Sursok. Among many other roles—including producing, directing, writing, music, media appearances, and entrepreneurship—Sursok is known as an actor who...

Affirm acquires Ferguson ‘feminist manifesto’ 

Tuesday, 16 April 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to an as-yet-untitled second nonfiction book from Hannah Ferguson. Described by the publisher as a ‘no-bullshit, no-frills guide to your twenties’, Ferguson’s 'new feminist...

UQP acquires Bigna middle-grade verse novel 

Thursday, 11 April 2024
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to debut author Sandy Bigna’s middle-grade verse novel Little Bones, in a two-book deal via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di...

PRH acquires Clark romantasy duology 

Thursday, 11 April 2024
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired rights to a romantasy duology from Tasmanian debut author Sophie Clark, as part of a global PRH co-publishing deal with Knopf in the...

Hachette acquires Farnham memoir 

Tuesday, 9 April 2024
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to The Voice Inside, a memoir by John Farnham. The book is written in partnership with Poppy Stockell, director of 2023 Farnham biopic Finding...

Affirm acquires rights to Welgemoed cookbook 

Photograph of Duncan Welgemoed Monday, 8 April 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Cooking with Fire by chef and founder of Adelaide restaurant Africola, Duncan Welgemoed. Welgemoed, who was born in South Africa, was head chef...

UWAP acquires On’s third poetry collection 

Thursday, 4 April 2024
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has acquired world rights to Essence, Thuy On’s third collection of poetry. On said the collection is titled Essence ‘because essentially that’s what poetry is about, stripping...

Hachette acquires McNab book on mushroom poisonings 

Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Hachette Australia has acquired world rights to Recipe for Murder (Duncan McNab). The book, based on the arrest of Erin Patterson over the alleged killing of three people using poisonous mushrooms, was...

Walker acquires Zaslavsky nonfiction ‘Splodge!’ 

Photograph of Alice Zaslavsky Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Walker Books has acquired world rights to Splodge!, a middle-grade nonfiction book from cookbook author and media personality Alice Zaslavsky. The publisher said that this book ‘will look at everyone’s...

Pantera acquires Earp debut novel 

Photograph of Joseph Earp sitting in a chair in front of a window Wednesday, 27 March 2024
Pantera has acquired ANZ rights to Painting Portraits of Everyone I’ve Ever Dated, a debut novel by Joseph Earp, in a deal brokered by Jeanne Ryckmans at Key People Literary...

Good Thing Productions acquires ‘Cherrywood’ screen rights 

Cover of Cherrywood by Jock Serong Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Screen rights to the forthcoming novel Cherrywood by Jock Serong (Fourth Estate) have been optioned by Good Thing Productions, via Melanie Ostell Literary. Good Thing Productions’ recent screen projects include Nitram and Nude...

Pantera acquires Wright fantasy debut 

Tuesday, 19 March 2024
Pantera Press has acquired Skysong, a fantasy novel by debut author C A Wright. Skysong is a ‘beautiful, lyrical retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Nightingale’ that follows Oriane, a...

Affirm Press signs Sweatshop mentees Nour and Barnette

Thursday, 14 March 2024
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to books by Egyptian-Australian writer and journalist Daniel Nour and African-American Australian writer Tyree Barnette. Nour and Barnette were recipients of the 2021 Affirm...

S&S acquires three titles by Heiss 

Author photograph of Anita Heiss Thursday, 14 March 2024
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to three new books by Anita Heiss, via Tara Wynne of Curtis Brown Australia. The first book, which has the working...

 

 

 

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