Jacinda Ardern memoir goes to Macmillan

The as-yet untitled memoir of the former prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, has gone to Macmillan in the UK.

UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, Australia and New Zealand, were acquired by Macmillan by publishing director Mike Harpley from Karolina Sutton at CAA. Rights have also gone to Libby Burton at Crown (North America) via Mollie Glick and David Larabell at CAA, and to Claire Murdoch at Penguin Random House (New Zealand) and Holly Toohey at Penguin Random House (Australia) by Karolina Sutton.

Translation sales have so far been made with Companhia (Brazil), Flammarion (France), btb Verlag (Germany), Meulenhoff (Holland), La Nave di Teseo (Italy) and Casa das Letras (Portugal) by Daisy Meyrick and Claire Nozieres.

A publication date has not yet been announced for the memoir, which the publisher describes as “full of warm and humorous stories, advice, and insight". It adds that the book “carries forth the idea that you can be your own kind of leader and still make a difference". Ardern served as the 40th prime minister of New Zealand and leader of the country’s Labour Party from 2017 to 2023.