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Recent News
Andrew Lownie remains the top-selling agent in the world, according to Publishersmarketplace and in the upcoming Bookseller Industry Awards, has been shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year, for the third year running.
His article An Insider’s Guide to How One UK Agency Places Its Writers was one of Publishing Perspectives’ top 5 most-read articles last year.
Chloe Banks’ The Art of Letting Go was one of the top 10 most-read books, and she one of the top 20 most-read authors, despite this being her only publication to date, in the top 100 ‘most-read’ list for UK Kindle users .
Blair Inc: The Man behind the Mask by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan was serialised in the Daily Mail.
Jessie Childs’ God’s Traitors won the 2015 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for history.
Vanity Fair said Daisy de Villeneuve’s I Should Have Said.: Quick-Witted Comebacks I Only Wish I'd Said to Friends and Lovers was ‘ filled with jaw-dropping comments made by unsuitable paramours or anti-sisterhood friends, and the witty comebacks Daisy wishes she’d said… Whether for cautionary tales, as a witty guide to future situations or simply for the pleasure of Daisy’s drawings and skewed humour, I Should Have Said is the book to give your girlfriends right now.’
Gavin Evans, the author of Black brain, white brain was interviewed on the Vanessa Feltz show.
Cathy Glass’s Saving Danny has spent the last month in the Sunday Times non-fiction paperback bestsellers first at no 4 and then no 5 and this week at no 10.
The Independent said of Breadline Britain: The Return of Mass Poverty by Stewart Lansley and Joanna Mack that ‘All politicians should be made to read this book.’
David McClure’s fascinating new guide to the royals’ finances, Royal Legacy was serialised in theExpress
Linda Porter and Bob Hutchinson were contributors to Channel Five’s The Last Days of Mary Queen of Scots
Following a very successful serialisation in the Daily Mail, the US edition of Lee Trimble’s Beyond the Call: The Incredible True Story of One American’s Life-or-Death Mission on the Eastern Front in World War II was a Barnes & Noble non-fiction hardcover bestseller.
Denise Williams’ Mummy's Little Angels: A mother's agonising story of losing her sons to a murderous father was serialised in the Daily Mirror and was a no 1 in Amazon’s ‘Movers and Shakers’ list of hot new titles.
Recent Sales
Atlantic have bought world rights in Neil McKenna’s Number 19 Cleveland Street one of the greatest, yet least exposed and least understood, scandals of the Victorian age. The book, which completes McKenna’s trilogy of gay histories The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde and Fanny & Stella will be published in 2017.
Severn House have bought World English rights in the second MJ Trow’s Grand and Bachelor historical crime series entitled The Circle
UK rights in This is After by Amanda Wright with Katy Weitz , a memoir of how aged four she witnessed her mother’s brutal murder, have been bought by John Blake
US rights in Paul Jones’ Word Drops: A sprinkling of literary curiosities have been bought by the University of New Mexico Press.
North American rights in Harvard historian Danny Orbach’s Networks of Resistance: A New History of the German Resistance to Hitler have been sold to Houghton Mifflin with Public Affairs the under-bidder.
Foreign Rights Sales
Hungarian rights in Roger Crowley’s Constantinople: The Last Great Siege
Norwegian rights in James Davies’s Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good
Lithuanian rights in Piu Eatwell’s They eat horses, don’t they?: The Truth about the French
Dutch rights in Cathy Glass’s Damaged: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Broken Child
Chinese rights in Lawrence James’s The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
Chinese rights in Sean McMeekin’s The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Polish rights in Beyond the Call: The Incredible True Story of One American’s Life-or-Death Mission on the Eastern Front in World War II by Lee Trimble and Jeremy Dronfield.
Polish rights in Casey Watson’s Breaking the Silence: Two little boys, lost and unloved. One foster carer determined to make a difference.
Greek rights in Christian Wolmar’s To the edge of the world: The Story of the World's Greatest Railway
Andrew Lownie: Selected submissions
Journalist Peter Allen’s account of the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices Another Side of Paris : Terrorist War in the City of Light
Bill Callahan’s memoir of his highly secret mission to help free fifty-two American diplomats held hostage in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Silent Justice, - a suspenseful insider account of America’s first battle with militant Islam.
Piu Eatwell’s F is for France: A Francophile’s Alphabet Book
Peter Forbes’ No More Magic Bullets?: The antibiotic crisis and how we’re going to solve it
Helen Fry’s Dark Secrets and Silences: Allied Intelligence and the Holocaust
Patrick Garrett’s biography Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth – first of the female war correspondents
Adrian Gilbert’s revisionist and substantial Waffen SS: A Military History
David Harper and Mei Trow’s Harper’s Antiques and Anecdotes which deals with where and how to buy antiques, care for the acquired piece and tips to guide the novice buyer/collector through the maze of information
Nicola Tallis’s life of Lady Jane Grey Crown of Blood
Martin Williams’s Stinking rich politicians: Exposing financial greed in Parliament
David Haviland: Selected submissions
Thank You For This Life, the extraordinary, shocking new novel from the celebrated German writer Sibylle Berg.
Rickshaw a gritty, comic tale of London nightlife and redemption from David McGrath.
The Last Fiesta, a tense literary novel, set around the Pamplona running of the bulls. Shortlisted for the Longbarn Books First Novel Award.
The Blackbird Singularity, a first-person literary novel about the struggle to start a new life after losing a four-year-old child to cancer.
The Hickory Stick is the nostalgic tale of a 19th century Norfolk police constable, based on the diaries of a real-life figure.
Ithaca by Patrick Dillon, an exciting, action-packed historical novel, based on Homer’s Odyssey.
April Titles
Queer Saint: The Cultured Life of Peter Watson by Adrian Clark and Jeremy Dronfield
Paul Jones’s Word Drops: A sprinkling of literary curiosities
Journalist Nevile Thurlbeck’s memoir Tabloid Secrets
Articles
Roger Crowley’s Ten years of writing history
Piu Eatwell’s Pinterest: a tool for writers?
Andrew Lownie will be leading a Guardian masterclass on ghost writing with Andrew Crofts on 18th April.
Best wishes, Andrew Lownie and David Haviland
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