HarperCollins Publishers Australia is thrilled to announce it has acquired ANZ rights to three new books by award-winning, bestselling author Holly Ringland from Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency in a major deal.
Ringland is the author of two internationally bestselling and multi-award-winning novels, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart and The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding, and one nationally bestselling work of non-fiction, The House that Joy Built. Her books have sold over 380,000 copies in Australia alone and have been published in over 30 international territories.
In 2023, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart was adapted for an award-winning seven-episode series starring Sigourney Weaver. The series streamed globally on Prime Video and broke records with the biggest opening weekend viewership globally for any Australian launch. It reached the top five in 78 countries, and top three in 42 countries.
The first book in Ringland’s new multi-book deal is a new work of non-fiction. A Hunger for Wings, about the sustaining power of seeking beauty to nourish resilience, will be published under the Fourth Estate imprint in late 2026, followed by two new novels in 2028 and 2030.
Catherine Milne, Head of Fiction and Fourth Estate Publisher, said: ‘I am over the moon to have secured three more books from Holly Ringland. She is an extraordinary storyteller – tender, lyrical, profound, funny, wise –and her ability to balance between the dark and the light, between grief and joy, to reach a place where she connects with, enchants, comforts, moves and inspires readers, is unparalleled. Working with her words, her characters, her stories, is simply a joy. I cannot wait for these three books, each of them is a gift.’
Holly Ringland said: ‘Since 2016 when I was a debut novelist, everything I’ve learned about how profound the relationship between a publisher and author can be is because of the honour and privilege I’ve had writing, editing, and publishing books with Catherine Milne. To have this three-book deal, which allows me to continue writing with Catherine and the rest of my team at HarperCollins Australia for the next six years, is an extraordinary position to be in (my knees truly gave out when I got the news). I am also extremely grateful for the support of the bookselling community and of course my readers, and I’m excited to continue growing my connection with them through these new stories.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Holly Ringland is a writer, storyteller and TV presenter. She is the author of the international bestseller The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, which has been translated into thirty languages and adapted into a seven-part TV series starring Sigourney Weaver, produced by Amazon Prime and Made Up Stories. In 2019, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart won the Australian Book Industry Award General Fiction Book of the Year. In 2021, Holly co-hosted an eight-episode ABC TV series, Back to Nature, with Aaron Pedersen. After living between Australia and the UK for ten years, Holly has been based in the Yugambeh region of southeast Queensland since 2020, where she wrote her second novel, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding, in her ‘office’, a vintage caravan named Frenchie. Upon publication, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding became an instant national bestseller, and it was named Booktopia’s 2022 Book of the Year. Holly writes a monthly Substack on the intersection of creativity and connection, The Joy Rise. Her new novel, The World Beneath Her Feet will be published in 2026.
ABOUT HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
HarperCollins Publishers is the second largest consumer book publisher in the world, with operations in 17 countries. With over 200 years of history and more than 120 branded imprints around the world, HarperCollins publishes approximately 10,000 new books every year, in over 30 languages, and has a print and digital catalogue of more than 200,000 titles. Writing across dozens of genres, HarperCollins authors include winners of the Miles Franklin Award, the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the Man Booker Prize. Publishing Australian stories since 1888, HarperCollins Publishers Australia, incorporating the Angus & Robertson imprint, is Australia’s foundation publisher. It is a subsidiary of News Corp.
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