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Melbourne Books acquires Buckrich history

Monday, 13 October 2025
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Fitzroy North: People, Place, Protest by Judith Buckrich. “[Beginning with] the local Aboriginal communities prior to European colonisation, Fitzroy North: People, Place and Protest reveals...

Bakers Lane Books acquires McLean’s nonfiction

Thursday, 9 October 2025
Bakers Lane Books has acquired world rights to The Town Like No Other by Robert McLean. The Town Like No Other tells the story of Broken Hill, a ‘world-class mining centre that...

A&U acquires Bailey’s sixth novel

Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Click, the sixth novel from Sarah Bailey, in a deal brokered by Lyn Tranter at Australian Literary Management. ‘Click is a taut...

HarperCollins acquires new Heyman fiction

Wednesday, 8 October 2025
HarperCollins has acquired world rights to Circle of Wonders, a novel by Kathryn Heyman. The novel follows Roni over the course of a lunar month. ‘Roni has lived with breast...

Ventura acquires Simon debut novel

Monday, 6 October 2025
Ventura Press has acquired world rights to Susan Simon’s debut novel The Secrets of St Jude’s, a ‘private school noir and commercial thriller’. The Secrets of St Jude’s follows the story...

Magabala Books acquires Cusack new adult debut

Thursday, 2 October 2025
Magabala Books has acquired world rights to The Dangers of Just One Person, a ‘funny, queer, regional’ novel by Skye Cusack. The novel ‘follows the intertwined stories of two young,...

A&U acquires Bagwell’s memoir

Wednesday, 1 October 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world English rights to Letter from Provence by Sheryle Bagwell, via Margaret Connolly and Associates. In the memoir, Bagwell recounts buying a stone house...

PRH acquires Wilson’s ‘I Eat the Stars’

Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World by Sarah Wilson. I Eat the Stars is a guide...

Ventura acquires Carrick debut fiction

Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Ventura Press has acquired world rights to Brigid Carrick’s debut commercial fiction, The Belfast Express. Set in Dublin during the 1970s, The Belfast Express is described by the publisher as...

Hachette acquires two new Robotham novels

Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Hachette Australia has acquired two novels by Michael Robotham, via Mark Lucas at the Soho Agency, in a multi-territory partnership with Little, Brown Book Group in the UK. The first...

A&U acquires new Moule fiction

Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired ANZ rights to The Mother of All Calamities by Lisa Moule, in a deal brokered by Samuel Bernard at the Zeitgeist Agency. The Mother...

Bakers Lane Books acquires Drum’s YA novel

Monday, 29 September 2025
Bakers Lane Books has acquired world rights to Don’t Forget to Remember Me, a YA debut by Annie Drum, via Sally Bird of Calidris Literary Agency. According to the publisher,...

MidnightSun Publishing acquires Madsen’s ‘Animal Force’

Thursday, 25 September 2025
MidnightSun has acquired world rights to Animal Force, a junior fiction novel written by Cerise Madsen and illustrated by Sally Heinrich. According to the publisher, Animal Force centres on twins Leo and...

Little Big Sky acquires Baker’s picture books in four-book deal

Thursday, 25 September 2025
Little Big Sky has acquired world rights to Calm Your Farm and I Love to Draw by Dale Baker in a four-book deal, marking the imprint's first acquisition since launching this year....

Pink Shorts Press acquires Mills, Dovey and Dubosarsky anthology

Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Pink Shorts Press has acquired world rights to A Concise Compendium of Wonder, a collection of ‘radical reimagined eco-fairytales’ by Jennifer Mills, Ceridwen Dovey and Ursula Dubosarsky, with illustrations by...

HarperCollins acquires de Sousa cookbooks

Wednesday, 24 September 2025
HarperCollins Australia has acquired world rights to two cookbooks by Steph de Sousa. The deal was brokered by HarperCollins fiction and nonfiction publisher Roberta Ivers and TalentINK Group’s Brooke Taylor...

UQP acquires O’Keeffe’s third novel

Tuesday, 23 September 2025
The University of Queensland Press (UQP) has acquired world rights to Angela O’Keeffe’s third novel, Phanton Days, via Martin Shaw Literary. In this forthcoming novel, the story is narrated from...

Pink Shorts Press acquires Crisp’s first nonfiction title

Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Pink Shorts Press has acquired Pearls, a collection of essays by Tracy Crisp. According to the publisher, Pearls is a collection of ‘coming-of-middle-age’ memoir essays, ‘drawn from a series of...

Hachette acquires Carmody’s dystopian romantasy

Monday, 22 September 2025
Hachette Australia has acquired The Shadows that Listen, a debut dystopian romantasy by Louisa Carmody, in a deal brokered between Hachette head of fiction Rebecca Saunders and C&W Agency, after...

Pink Shorts Press acquires ‘Scared Angry Laughing’ by Merrilees

Monday, 22 September 2025
Pink Shorts Press has acquired Scared Angry Laughing, a nonfiction title by Margaret Merrilees. Scared Angry Laughing is a creative memoir essay collection, said the publisher. ‘These pieces speak to...

A&U acquires Buttifant, Farr tough nonfiction

Thursday, 18 September 2025
Allen & Unwin (A&U) has acquired world rights to Life's Tough—Be Tougher by David Buttifant and Nick Farr. ‘Life's Tough—Be Tougher is a straight-talking guide to building resilience and thriving when hard...

Transit Lounge acquires new Cameron novel

Thursday, 18 September 2025
Transit Lounge has acquired world rights to Bloomfield, the third novel by Donna M Cameron, in a deal brokered by Jeanne Ryckmans at Key People Literary Management. ‘When the eccentric...

Melbourne Books acquires Pellegrino’s ‘Melbourne Coffee Roasters’

Wednesday, 17 September 2025
Melbourne Books has acquired world rights to Melbourne Coffee Roasters, a nonfiction title by Dominic Pellegrino. Melbourne Coffee Roasters focuses on the history of Melbourne-founder coffee roasters and houses, including Vittoria, Pellegrini's...