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HarperCollins acquires Dalgarno novel 

Photograph of Paul Dalgarno in front of a wooden fence Wednesday, 17 January 2024
HarperCollins has acquired ANZ rights to The Travelling Library by Paul Dalgarno, in a deal brokered by Martin Shaw of Shaw Literary. The Travelling Library is 'a tender coming-of-age story...

UWAP acquires Polimeni junior fiction series 

An author photograph of Cassy Polimeni Thursday, 14 December 2023
UWAP has acquired ANZ rights to a four-book junior fiction series, Ella and the Frogs, from Cassy Polimeni. The forthcoming series is for early readers aged five to eight years,...

HarperCollins acquires Katherine Collette duology 

Author photograph of Katherine Collette Wednesday, 13 December 2023
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Shellsville, a duology for early middle-grade readers by Katherine Collette, via Danielle Binks and Jacinta di Mase of Jacinta di Mase Management. Described by...

Wiley acquires Dalla-Camina nonfiction book 

An author photograph of Megan Dalla-Camina Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Wiley has acquired world rights to a nonfiction title from Megan Dalla-Camina, titled Women Rising, via Lou Johnson at Key People Literary Management. The publisher described the title as ‘the...

Transit Lounge acquires Goldsmith novel 

An author photograph of Andrea Goldsmith, who is standing in front of a bookshelf Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Andrea Goldsmith’s novel The Buried Life, via the Jane Novak Literary Agency. Publisher Barry Scott said the book ‘subtly portrays the dangers of...

Text acquires Richardson’s ‘The Degenerates’ 

Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Text Publishing has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (ex Canada) to a debut novel by Melbourne writer Raeden Richardson, via Peggy Boulos Smith at Writers House. Following the interconnected lives...

Pan Macmillan acquires Hardcastle novel 

Author photograph of Dylin Hardcastle. Monday, 11 December 2023
Pan Macmillan has acquired ANZ rights to the novel A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle, via Zeitgeist Agency’s Benython Oldfield, who has also sold North American rights to the...

UQP acquires McSkimming memoir 

Friday, 8 December 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired ANZ rights to Memory is a Nesting Magpie by Josie McSkimming, in a deal brokered by Gaby Naher of Left Bank Literary. Written...

MidnightSun acquires Prewer science fiction novel 

Author photograph of Michael Prewer Thursday, 7 December 2023
MidnightSun has acquired world rights to a literary science fiction novel, titled R E Generation, by debut author Michael Prewer. Described by the publisher as ‘a fast-paced, futuristic tale of...

Text acquires De Kretser novel 

Thursday, 30 November 2023
Text Publishing has acquired ANZ rights to a new novel by Michelle de Kretser. Theory & Practice is a short novel set in Melbourne in the 1980s, where a young...

PRH signs Pignatiello romantic suspense duology 

Thursday, 30 November 2023
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world English-language rights to duology 'The Barbarani Estate' by debut author Emma Pignatiello, via Danielle Binks of Jacinta di Mase Management. Last Shot and Last Breath...

UQP acquires Caldwell nonfiction on sexual empowerment 

Wednesday, 29 November 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired ANZ rights to Slutdom by Hilary Caldwell via Tom Gilliatt at Left Bank Literary. Described by UQP as 'a controversial, celebratory and courageous book...

UWAP acquires Mead poetry collection 

An author photograph of Isabella G Mead Wednesday, 29 November 2023
UWAP has acquired world rights to The Infant Vine, a debut poetry collection from Isabella G Mead. The Infant Vine is described by the publisher as ‘a stunning collection exploring...

Affirm acquires Mupotsa-Russell debut thriller 

Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Affirm Press has acquired world rights to A Hitwoman’s Guide to Reducing Household Debt, the debut thriller from Mark Mupotsa-Russell, via Sarah McKenzie Literary Management. Mupotsa-Russell's manuscript was one of...

Ultimo acquires Makereti novel ‘The Mires’ 

Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Ultimo Press has acquired ANZ rights for Tina Makereti's novel The Mires, in a deal brokered by Charlotte Seymour at Johnson & Alcock in London. The publisher described the novel...

Hachette acquires Klim memoir

Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Hachette Australia has acquired the memoir of Australian Olympic swimming champion Michael Klim. Klim, to be published by Hachette senior nonfiction publisher Scott Henderson, charts the life of the Polish-born...

Melbourne Books acquires Pascoe historical fiction 

Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to a historical war fiction novel from Bruce Pascoe, titled Imperial Harvest, via the Fran Moore Literary Agency. In the book, which is set...

A&U acquires Rodda junior fiction

Author photograph of Emily Rodda Monday, 20 November 2023
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to Landovel, a three-part junior fantasy adventure story from Emily Rodda. Publisher Eva Mills described the work as ‘compulsive and engaging’, and...

Larrikin acquires Vee, Faber junior fiction 

Wednesday, 15 November 2023
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to a junior fiction title by author and illustrator Jules Faber and Larrikin publicist Dani Vee, titled How Not To…. Described by the publisher...

Larrikin House acquires two junior fantasy series 

Tuesday, 14 November 2023
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to two junior fantasy fiction series from Louise Park and collaborators—the Boy vs Beast series (co-written with Susannah McFarlane, writing as Mac Park), which...

Upswell acquires Jones poetry book 

Thursday, 9 November 2023
Upswell Publishing has acquired world rights to The Empty Grandstand, the first book of poetry by Aotearoa New Zealand author Lloyd Jones. ‘Lloyd Jones was seven years old the first...

Transit Lounge acquires Downes novel 

Wednesday, 1 November 2023
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Stephen Downes’ new novel, Mural. Publisher Barry Scott said Mural is 'a haunting "confession" by a psychopath held in a secure facility'. Told...