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September Sales
Tom Adams’s collection of previously unseen Beatles photographs A Photo Archive of the Fab Four 1963-1968 to Omnibus
US rights in Mark Felton’s Zero Night: The Most Daring Great Escape of World War II to St Martin’s Press
Michael Jago’s biography of the Conservative politician Rab Butler Blue Blood and Thunder: : How They Thwarted “Rab” Butler to Biteback
The incredible true story of a family struggling to overcome the traumas of its past, The Faceless Woman by Jennifer Kelly and Katy Weitz to Sidgwick & Jackson
Bijan Omrani’s Caesar's Footprints on the continuing impact of Caesar’s conquests to Head of Zeus
Hungarian rights in Bryan Cartledge’s history of Hungary The Will to Survive
Estonian rights in John Jobling’s pop biography U2: The Definitive Biography
Italian rights in Tim Tate’s Hitler's Forgotten Children .
September News
Dickie Arbiter’s memoir On Duty with the Queen. was serialised in the Daily Mail , was the subject of a three-page feature in Hello! Magazine and was no 1 in all its Amazon categories.
Jessie Childs’s God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England sold by the agency to Bodley Head has been long-listed for this year’s Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction
Annabelle Forest’s shocking memoir The Devil on my Doorstep continued to generate huge press interest and was no 52 in the Amazon bestseller list, and no1 in ‘Movers & Shakers’.
Cathy Glass’s latest fostering memoir The Child Bride went straight to no 2 in the paperback non-fiction chart and no 3 in the iTunes bestseller list.
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones has won this year’s APG Richard Neustadt Book Prize for the best book on US government and politics including political history for his The American Left: Its Impact on Politics and Society since 1900 .
Rachel Kelly won this year’s Spear’s prize for Best First Book for Black Rainbow: How words healed me - my journey through depression. The leading mental health charity SANE have appointed her as an official Ambassador for the charity.
Bye, Mam, I love you: A Daughter's Last Words. A Mother's Search for Justice. The Shocking True Story of the Murder...by Sonia Oatley and Lynne Barrett-Lee was no 1 in the True Crime Kindle chart.
Author and journalist Katharine Quarmby gave a keynote speech last week at the Council of Europe’s conference to mark the passing into law of the Istanbul Convention, which will give greater protection to women suffering gender based violence in Europe. She spoke about the case of Diana Kader, and the book she is co-writing with her, Hear My Cry, about ‘honour’ based violence.
Noreen Riols, author of The Secret Ministry of Ag. & Fish discussed her career as a wartime spy in the Daily Mail.
Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers has spent a second month on the New York Times Science bestseller list, as well as 6 weeks on the NPR national bestsellers list. The book is already onto its fourth printing.
Louisa Treger’s debut novel, The Lodger has had a warm review in Publishers Weekly, describing it as an “intriguing blend of fact and fiction” that “deftly examining moods ranging from exhilaration to sexual longing to despair to shame.”
Andrew Lownie: current submissions
Nicholas Best’s oral history of Pearl Harbour Seven Days of Infamy
Ian Graham’s biographical collection The Wrong Side of the Blanket tells the stories of the lives of the most famous, or notorious, women whose liaisons with royalty and aristocrats brought them wealth, fame and freedom undreamt of by most women of their time. US rights sold to St Martin’s Press.
William Callahan’s memoir Hostage to Fortune ,written with Michael Carroll , of his unreported mission to help free 52 American diplomats held hostage in Iran in 1979.
Under the Rainbow by Matt Deighton and Lynne Barrett-Lee, an intensely personal story, one not so much about a man and his dog, but about a dog – a very special dog – and how she helped a man, through helping others, find new meaning in his life after his home was destroyed by a tornado.
Paddy Hayes’s Daphne Park: Queen of Spies, the first biography of a major British Cold War intelligence figure for almost twenty years.
Sean Longden’s From Prisoners of War to Partisans which tells the long-forgotten story of Allied prisoners of war who were captured by the Italians and Germans during the Mediterranean campaign in World War 2.
Sian Mackay’s The Incredible Mr Ripper is the extraordinary story of the Austrian aristocrat, Baron Rudolph ‘Rip’ von Ripper (1905-60) from his rebellious childhood in the imperial Austria-Hungary court, to his eventual acclaim as an artist and US military hero and work as a CIA agent tracing Nazi war criminals.
Art Hunter : Searching for the World’s Missing Masterpieces ,the memoir of Chris Marinello who has helped to recover stolen, Nazi-looted, or missing artwork worth over £300million. US rights sold to St Martin’s Press.
Harvard historian Danny Orbach’s Networks of Resistance: A New History of the German Resistance to Hitler
Gulfstream Girl: Confessions of a Private Jet Stewardess by Saskia Swann and Nicola Stow
An account of his various undercover investigations by Neville Thurlbeck, Investigations Editor of the News of the World, Tabloid Secrets
David Haviland: fiction submissions
Rickshaw a gritty, comic tale of London nightlife and redemption from David McGrath.
The Gaps Between the Tracks, a quirky mystery featuring a blind detective, the debut novel from record producer Andy Bracken.
Weep No More, a romantic saga set against the sweep of history, in the tradition of James Clavell, Noel Barber and Colleen McCullough, by bestselling novelist Marius Gabriel.
Dominic Adler’s hard-boiled thriller The Ninth Circle featuring reluctant assassin Cal Winter and his enigmatic employers The Firm.
The Art of Letting Go a thoughtful and surprising drama about art and artifice by award-winning debut novelist Chloe Banks.
Warwick Cairns’ action-packed historical romp The Fall set during the English Civil War.
Ithaca by Patrick Dillon, an exciting, action-packed historical novel, based on Homer’s Odyssey.
October Publications
Dickie Arbiter and Lynne Barrett-Lee’s On Duty with the Queen.
Juliet Barker’s England, Arise: The People, the King and the Great Revolt of 1381
Mark Felton’s Zero Night: The Most Daring Great Escape of World War II
John Jobling’s U2: The Definitive Biography
The paperback of Rachel Kelly’s memoir Black Rainbow: How words healed me - my journey through depression
Paul Anthony Jones’s word book Jedburgh Justice & Kentish Fire
David Long’s trivia book Bizarre Scotland
The US publication of Born into the Children of God: My life in a religious sex cult and my struggle for survival on the outside by Natacha Tormey and Nadene Ghouri.
Louisa Treger’s debut novel The Lodger
The fostering memoir Nowhere to Go: : The heartbreaking true story of a boy desperate to be loved by Casey Watson and Lynne Barrett-Lee
The ‘Hole in the Heart of Publishing’ article that appeared on the agency website was picked up by Publishing Perspectives here.
Andrew Lownie spoke at the Women’s Fiction Festival in Matera on the subjects The Writer’s Life in 2019, and The Makings of a Fantastic Thriller.
The Agent Hunter website has carried out a study of UK literary agents, describing Andrew Lownie as ‘the busiest agent in London’. The agency is also praised for being one of the most transparent in the UK.
Publishing Perspectives picked up an agency website article in which Andrew Lownie outlines the range of activities he is involved with in a typical agency week, from the mundane and routine, to the offbeat and extraordinary.
What a Typical Week Looks Like at One UK Literary Agency
Best wishes Andrew Lownie and David Haviland
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