S&S acquires Holmes debut
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired global rights for Australian journalist Tracey Holmes’s debut book, Not A Female Sports Reporter. The first woman to present ABC sports program Grandstand,...
HarperCollins acquires four Peter Cheong graphic novels
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
HarperCollins Children’s Publishing has acquired world rights via auction to four graphic novels by author and illustrator Peter Cheong in a deal brokered by Paige Terlip at Andrea Brown Literary...
A&U acquires new Delaney nonfiction
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to The Seeker and the Sage by Brigid Delaney in a deal brokered by Pippa Masson at Curtis Brown. ‘Whereas Reasons Not...
Melbourne Books acquires Harris nonfiction
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Under the Influence of Salmon: How a Man and a Fish Turned Our World Upside Down by Steve Harris. Of the book, the publisher...
Melbourne Books acquires Cochrane art book
Monday, 24 March 2025
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Living Art: Papua New Guinea by Susan Cochrane. According to the publisher, the book will feature over 400 full-colour images of Papua New Guinean artists...
Two Carter crime series optioned for television
Monday, 24 March 2025
Tasmania-based crime author Alan Carter's Cato Kwong series and Nick Chester series (both Fremantle Press) have been optioned for television by Magnetic Stories. Production company Magnetic Stories launched last week...
UQP acquires Kemp debut novel ‘Soft Serve’
Thursday, 20 March 2025
UQP has acquired world rights for Soft Serve, the debut novel of playwright and actor George Kemp. The novel is 'set over one day almost exclusively in a regional McDonald’s as...
Atria acquires Koay romantasy debut
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Atria Books Australia has acquired world rights for romantasy novel A Curse Carved in Ink by Tzeyi Koay, in a two-book, six-figure deal with Charlotte Trumble at Simon & Schuster...
Rights round-up
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Sales Fiction Penguin Random House (PRH) has sold Brazilian rights for Break the Rules (Lauren Jackson) to Planeta; and Japanese rights for Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect (Benjamin Stevenson)...
Macmillan signs Blabey in seven-book deal
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Macmillan has acquired rights to seven new titles from internationally bestselling author Aaron Blabey. The deal, worth eight figures, encompasses seven titles in two new middle-grade series, to be published...
Larrikin House acquires Mather picture book
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Larrikin House has acquired world rights to Otto's INKcredible First Day of School by Rory H Mather, with illustrations by Rebel Challenger. The story follows Otto, an octopus who sprays...
MidnightSun acquires Burge sequel ‘Dirt Trap’
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
MidnightSun has acquired world rights to Dirt Trap by Michael Burge. A sequel to Burge’s rural noir debut, Tank Water, Dirt Trap is set two decades on from the events...
Beer’s ‘Thunderhead’ optioned for film
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Thunderhead (Sophie Beer, A&U) has been optioned by LateNite films, in a film and television deal negotiated by Annabel Barker Agency. Beer’s first middle-grade novel, Thunderhead draws on the author’s own...
A&U acquires Wallace debut novel ‘Ash’
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world English (ex NZ) rights to debut novel Ash by Louise Wallace, in a deal brokered by Martin Shaw at Shaw Literary. North American...
Bundyi acquires two Morison novels
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Simon & Schuster imprint Bundyi Publishing has acquired world rights to two novels by Judi Morison. Morison’s debut, Secrets, ‘touches on many of the issues we are still grappling with...
Text acquires ‘Snake Talk’
Tuesday, 18 March 2025
Text Publishing has acquired world rights for Snake Talk: How the World’s Ancient Serpent Stories Can Guide Us by Tyson Yunkaporta and Megan Kelleher. The publisher describes Snake Talk as an...
Larrikin acquires McDonald picture book
Monday, 17 March 2025
Larrikin House has acquired world English rights to Rainbow Street by RWR McDonald, illustrated by Kelly Canby. The picture book introduces Rainbow Street, ‘where every neighbour is family, every celebration is...
Murdoch Books acquires Fashion Critical title
Monday, 17 March 2025
Murdoch Books has acquired world rights to a ‘satirical red-carpet fashion bible’ from anonymous social media influencer and comedian Fashion Critical (FC). ‘Fashion Critical is the brainchild of an anonymous...
A&U acquires Gold’s ‘My Name Is Elli’
Monday, 17 March 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) Aotearoa New Zealand has acquired world rights to the historical novel My Name Is Elli from author Doug Gold. Set in wartime Holland, My Name Is...
Fox’s ‘Fire with Fire’ to be adapted for screen
Monday, 17 March 2025
Candice Fox's 2024 thriller Fire with Fire (Penguin) is being adapted for television by US television studio NBC, reports Deadline. Television writer and producer Wendy Mericle (Arrow, Desperate Housewives) is...
HarperCollins acquires Armitage debut ‘The Heir Apparent’
Thursday, 13 March 2025
HarperCollins Australia has acquired ANZ rights to The Heir Apparent by Rebecca Armitage. HarperCollins head of fiction Catherine Milne acquired the book from Gaby Naher of the Naher Agency with...
PRH acquires new series by Johns and Mercer
Thursday, 13 March 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired world rights to The Number One Insta Detectives Agency and The Love Bomber by co-writers Rachael Johns and Mercedes Mercier. Rights were acquired...
S&S acquires new Matthews fiction
Wednesday, 12 March 2025
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired world rights to The House on Tinker Street by Amy Matthews in a two-book, six-figure deal via Sarah Younger at Nancy Yost Literary...
S&S acquires Reid memoir
Wednesday, 12 March 2025
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) has acquired ANZ rights to Destination Moon, a memoir by former Formula One aerodynamicist and Lune Croissanterie founder Kate Reid, via Tara Wynne at Curtis...
Scholastic acquires two Greive series for young readers
Thursday, 6 March 2025
Scholastic Australia has secured world rights to two new series for young readers by Bradley Trevor Greive, in deals brokered by Belinda Bolliger at Key People Literary Management. In Death...
HarperCollins acquires Nunn novel
Thursday, 6 March 2025
HarperCollins Publishers Australia has acquired world rights to Pilbara by Judy Nunn, in a deal brokered by publishing director Brigitta Doyle and fiction and nonfiction publisher Roberta Ivers, with Karen...
PRH acquires Laguna novel
Wednesday, 5 March 2025
Penguin Random House (PRH) Australia has acquired ANZ rights to The Underworld by Sofie Laguna; PRH publisher Meredith Curnow acquired the rights from Grace Heifetz at A4 Literary. PRH described...
HQ acquires Rushby adult fiction in two-book deal
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
HQ, a division of HarperCollins Publishers Australia, has acquired ANZ rights to Allison Rushby’s Slashed Beauties, in a ‘significant’ two-book deal, via Verve Books UK. North American rights were sold...
A&U acquires Toohey nonfiction
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Better Things Are Possible: How Rebellious Hope Will Change the World by Jack Toohey. ‘From the housing crisis to the climate...
Pantera acquires Rusciano memoir
Monday, 3 March 2025
Pantera Press has acquired world rights to the memoir Blood, Sweat and Glitter by Em Rusciano, in a two-book deal via TGI Sport. Rusciano is a writer, singer, comedian and podcaster....
