‘Get Your Story Straight’ sells to Levine Querido
Thursday, 18 January 2024
Irene Vázquez at Levine Querido (LQ) has acquired world English (excl ANZ) rights and world Spanish and Dutch rights in Briar Rolfe’s graphic novel Get Your Story Straight in a...
HarperCollins acquires Dalgarno novel
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...
Larrikin House acquires Harry, Foster junior fiction
Thursday, 11 January 2024
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to a junior fiction text titled Camp Spook: Attack of the Aliants! co-authored by Pip Harry and Kate Foster. In this book, 10-year-old Julia...
UWAP acquires Polimeni junior fiction series
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
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
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...
Werner Film Productions options Legge memoir screen rights
Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Werner Film Productions (WFP) has optioned the screen rights to Kate Legge’s memoir Infidelity & Other Affairs, in a deal negotiated by Thames & Hudson (T&H) Australia on behalf of...
Transit Lounge acquires Goldsmith novel
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...
Text acquires Carlyle’s ‘No One Will Know’
Monday, 11 December 2023
Text Publishing has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights (ex Canada) to the new novel No One Will Know by Rose Carlyle, via Jenny Meyer. No One Will Know is a...
Pan Macmillan acquires Hardcastle novel
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
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...
HarperCollins acquires Grace illustrated ‘great sex’ handbook
Wednesday, 6 December 2023
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to an as-yet-untitled debut nonfiction book from Georgia Grace on ‘the A–Z of great sex’. In the hardcover handbook, sex and relationship practitioner Grace ‘will...
Birch named Royal Society of Literature international fellow, signs with UQP for two new books
Friday, 1 December 2023
University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to two new books by Tony Birch, a novel and a short story collection. The acquisitions follow Birch's most recent book...
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...
Pantera signs Messenger and Megginson’s ‘The Power of Two’
Thursday, 30 November 2023
Pantera Press has acquired ANZ rights to The Power of Two by Lisa Messenger and Sarah Megginson via Lou Johnson at Key People Literary Management. After eight years of trying...
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
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
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...
Eckermann’s ‘She Is the Earth’ sells to North America
Thursday, 2 November 2023
Magabala Books has sold North American rights to Ali Cobby Eckermann’s She Is the Earth to Flood Editions. The publisher said She Is the Earth is ‘a luminous verse novel...
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...