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October deals
Oneworld have bought World English rights in Adrian Addison’s Mail Men: The story of the Daily Mail – the Paper that Divided and Conquered Britain to be published next summer.
Harper Collins have bought World English rights in Gordon Lewis’ inspirational Irish memoir Secret Child
OUP have bought World English rights in Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’ The Story of Surveillance: A Parable for Britain and America
Biteback have bought UK rights in the memoirs of the News of the World’s chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck’s Tabloid Secrets
US rights in Hitler's Forgotten Children, the powerful, first-person account of being at the heart of one of the Nazi’s cruellest and most obscene experiments - the Lebensborn program to create a new Aryan master race - have been sold to Penguin at auction with St Martin’s Press as under-bidder. A number of translation deals will shortly be announced.
Juliet Barker’s new book England, Arise: The People, the King and the Great Revolt of 1381 has been extensively and well reviewed.
Agency author Lisa Clegg, author of The Blissful Baby Expert and The Blissful Toddler Expert has been short-listed for the prestigious Tesco Mum of the Year Awards 2015.
News
Agency author Hugh Barker features as Mr December in the Dull Men of Great Britain calendar 2015 which is generating lots of media attention, including interviews with ITV London News, as well as an appearance on the BBC’s The One Show.
Bannockburn: A New History by David Cornell went into the Kindle top 50 bestsellers.
Simon Cursey’s memoir MRF: Shadow Troop ,the untold true story of top secret British military intelligence undercover operations in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1972-1974, is the subject of a feature inShortlist magazine:
Jane Dismore’s Duchesses: Living in 21st Century Britain continues to receive publicity ranging from the Daily Express and History Today to The Lady and being serialised in the Mail on Sunday.
Mark Felton’s Zero Night: The Most Daring Great Escape of World War II has been generating widespread publicity throughout the world including many film enquiries.
Cathy Glass has been either no 2 or no 3 all month and this week is no 4 in the SundayTimes paperback non-fiction list with The Child Bride
John Jobling’s new unauthorised book on the rock group U2: The Definitive Biography has been extracted on Radar Online.
Sonia Oatley’s powerful memoir Bye, Mam, I love you: A Daughter's Last Words. A Mother's Search for Justice. The Shocking True Story of the Murder... was the Kindle non-fiction #1 bestseller. It already has more than a hundred five-star reviews
According to Publishersmarketplace , Andrew Lownie remains the top selling agent worldwide over the last twelve months, with sixty recorded deals - eight more than the number two slot.
Race to Truth: Blowing the whistle on Lance Armstrong and cycling's doping culture by Emma O’Reilly with Shannon Kyle has been short-listed for the Irish sports book of the year.
Louisa Treger’s biographical novel The Lodger continues to receive good reviews and was recently extracted in Harper’s Bazaar .
Casey Watson’s Nowhere to Go: : The heartbreaking true story of a boy desperate to be loved is at Number 6 in the paperback category of the Sunday Times bestsellers this week making two agency titles in the top six non-fiction paperback chart.
Andrew Lownie: current submissions
Nicholas Best’s oral history of Pearl Harbour Seven Days of Infamy
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.
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.
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 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.
Harvard historian Danny Orbach’s Networks of Resistance: A New History of the German Resistance to HitlerMark Peel’s The New Meritocracy. : A History of UK Independent Schools 1979-2014
Desmond Seward’s history of a family and a house Renishaw and the Sitwells
Sally Smith’s biography of the barrister Sir Edward Marshall Hall and his famous cases More Eloquence than Logic.
Gulfstream Girl: Confessions of a Private Jet Stewardess by Saskia Swann and Nicola Stow
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.
The Lodger by Louisa Treger, a powerful biographical novel which tells the story of the writer Dorothy Richardson.
The Last Fiesta, a tense literary novel, set around the Pamplona running of the bulls. Shortlisted for the Longbarn Books First Novel Award.
Joyce Mackenzie's A Bride for Sunil, a tale of stormy relationships in the melting pot of post-colonial India.
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.
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.
The Devil’s Work, a hard-boiled thriller in the style of Lee Child and Vince Flynn, in which reluctant assassin Cal Winter finds himself in Africa investigating an MI6 mole.
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.
November publications
Our Vinnie: Book 1 The Canterbury Warriors Trilogy & My Uncle Charlie: Book 2 The Canterbury Warriors Trilogy by Julie Shaw and Lynne Barrett-Lee
The Book of 365 by Hugh Brazier and Jan McCann.
Teena Lyons’ The Complete guide to ghostwriting
The paperback of The Burglar Caught By A Skeleton and Other Singular Stories from the Victorian Press by Jeremy Clay
Articles
Mei Trow compares his experience of trade publishing with new publisher Thistle Thistle vs The Rest
Fifty agency authors discuss their writing day in How I Write and The Writing Life
Three top editors explain how they decide on which books to publish The Acquisitions Process
Best wishes, Andrew Lownie and David Haviland
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