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Recent Sales
Blair Inc: The Man behind the Mask by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan, which looks at Blair’s commercial activities since leaving government, has been bought by John Blake for publication in March.
Harper Collins have bought world rights in the first two books in a series by Jo Hardy star of BBC 2’s “Young Vets” series . Tales from a Young Vet recounts Jo Hardy’s final year of training at the Royal Veterinary College whilst Vet on the Move is the story of her first year travels as a fully-qualified vet.
Duckworth have bought World English rights in Paddy Hayes’ life of Daphne Parks , Daphne Park: Queen of Spies , widely acknowledged as being one of Britain’s leading Cold War Intelligence officers.
Short Books have bought UK & Commonwealth rights in A Year of Living Calmly, in which Rachel Kelly answers the question that she has been asked so often since the publication of her memoir, Black Rainbow: How words healed me - my journey through depression. So what have you learnt about staying well after your breakdowns?’
Penguin have bought world rights in Sean McMeekin’s The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Mark Peels’ The New Meritocracy. : A History of UK Independent Schools 1979-2014 ,which charts the momentous changes in private schools over the last thirty-five years, has been bought by Elliott & Thompson.
They have also bought Desmond Seward’s history of the Sitwell family and their house Renishaw and the Sitwells
Norton have bought US rights in Piu Eatwell’s The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue
Foreign rights sales include:
Lithuanian rights in Hugh Brazier and Jan McCann’s The Book of 365 just published by Random House..
Japanese and Chinese rights in Nessa Carey’s Junk: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genomepublished by Icon and Columbia University Press.
Indonesian rights in Marina Chapman and Lynne Barrett-Lee’s The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of the Girl Raised by Monkeys now sold in twenty countries.
Korean rights in Roger Crowley’s Constantinople: The Last Great Siege published by Faber and Random House.
Chinese rights in Roger Crowley’s Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire shortly to be published by Faber and Random House.
Dutch and Portuguese rights in Randall Hansen’s Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance after July 20, 1944 published by Faber and OUP.
Hebrew rights in Roger Howard’s Operation Damocles published by Thistle and Pegasus.
Recent News
Juliet Barker’s has been receiving rave reviews for England, Arise: The People, the King and the Great Revolt of 1381 including most recently ‘An accessible and informative read for history enthusiasts and useful for undergraduate students as the most complete modern account of the rising… An engaging and thought-provoking account…’ History Today. She and Jane Dismore both spoke at the Yorkshire Post Literary Lunch
The New Scientist has chosen Nessa Carey’s Junk DNA as one to look forward to in 2015.
Piu Eatwell’s They eat horses, don’t they?: The Truth about the French has just been published in the US. The New York Times wrote “A highly entertaining book that subjects popular stereotypes to a reality-based fact-check… A welcome corrective to the charming postcard tableaux on display… ever since Peter Mayle’s 1989 memoir ‘A Year in Provence’… a book that can make you laugh out loud.
Shed Simove’s blank book What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex has entered the 2015 Guinness Book of World Records.
Two agency titles were short-listed for this year’s Paddy Power Political Book Award for best political biography -Clement Attlee: The Inevitable Prime Minister and Coming Up Trumps
February Titles
Daisy de Villeneuve’s I Should Have Said.: Quick-Witted Comebacks I Only Wish I'd Said to Friends and Lovers
Gavin Evans’s Black brain, white brain
Stewart Lansley and Joanna Mack’s Breadline Britain: The Return of Mass Poverty
Lee Trimble and Jeremy Dronfield’s Beyond the Call: The Incredible True Story of One American’s Life-or-Death Mission on the Eastern Front in World War II which already has several film offers.
The paperback of Mary Morris’ A Very Private Diary: A Nurse in Wartime
With best wishes, Andrew Lownie and David Haviland
Andrew Lownie Literary Agency Ltd.
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