Dear newsletter subscriber,
Recent News
The agency had two titles in the top 10 paperback non-fiction list for November – Casey Watson’s A Last Kiss for Mummy and Cathy Glass’ Will You Love Me?: Lucy's Story - and currently has three titles in the top twenty with the addition of Marina Chapman’s The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of the Girl Raised by Monkeys. Watson spent five weeks and Glass had eight weeks in the top ten.
Simon Cursey’s shocking account of the Military Reaction Force in Northern Ireland, MRF: Shadow Troop, was serialised in the Daily Mail, and quickly became the No.1 memoir on Amazon, outselling Morrissey and Alex Ferguson
Eleanor Fitzsimons won this year’s Keats-Shelley Prize and was runner up for the Biographers Club Tony Lothian Prize for her proposed book on Harriet Shelley A Want of Honour: The Short Life and Tragic Death of Harriet Shelley
Criminal London: A Sightseer's Guide to the Capital of Crime by Kris and Nina Hollington was nominated for the British Travel Press Awards.
Christian Jennings’ Bosnia’s Million Bones : Solving the world’s greatest forensic science puzzle was extracted in Forensic Magazine.
Katharine Quarmby’s powerful Kindle Single Aftermath was released, and became the No.1 short story on Amazon.
Recent Sales
Stanley Aylett’s Second World War memoir Surgeon at War was bought by John Blake.
Harper Collins have bought Daddy's Little Princess, Cathy Glass’s memoir of fostering seven year old Beth.
Angus Konstam’s Stubborn Valour: The Battle of Bannockburn, 1314 and Twelve Hours off Jutland: The untold story of the greatest naval battle of the First World War were commissioned by Aurum.
Stewart Lansley and Jo Mack’s study of poverty in Britain today Breadline Britain: The Return of Mass Poverty has been bought by Oneworld.
Alan White’s book on government out-sourcing, The Shadow State: The Secret Rise of Corporate Britain, based on his columns in the New Statesman, was sold to One World.
Denise William’s memoir The Ultimate Agony: A mother's story of losing her sons to their murderous father, ghosted by Julie McCaffrey, was bought by Ebury.
Recent Foreign Rights
US rights in Jessie Childs’ God’s Traitors to Oxford University Press.
Korean rights in Nessa Carey’s popular science title The Epigenetics Revolution
Hungarian rights in Duncan Falconer’s thriller Pirate
Italian and Dutch rights in Cathy Glass’s Will You Love Me?: Lucy's Story
French rights in Cathy Glass’s The Saddest Girl In The World
Polish rights in Cathy Glass’s Please Don’t Take My Baby, Another Forgotten Child, Will You Love Me?: Lucy's Story and Hidden: The Heartbreaking True Story of an ‘Invisible’ Boy
Portuguese rights in Cathy Glass’s Please Don’t Take My Baby
Polish rights in John Jobling’s book on the rock group U2: The Goal is $oul
German rights in Sean McMeekin’s July 1914: Countdown to War
Dutch rights in Claudia Spahr’s Right Time Baby : The Complete Guide to Later Motherhood
Polish rights in Casey Watson’s memoir Mummy's Little Helper: The heartrending true story of a young girl secretly caring for her severely disabled mother
Andrew Lownie
Selected current submissions
The memoirs of the Queen’s Press Secretary Dickie Arbiter Was that Alright?
Nicola Hobb’s eight-week training programme to improve strength and suppleness Yoga Gym
Banker and historian David Lough’s ‘Churchill and his Money: A Perfect Sieve’ which tells the hitherto unknown story of Churchill’s lifetime of problems with his personal finances.
Dick Venables’ memoirs of his career in Disaster Management and Disaster Victim Identification A Life in Death : The Remarkable Career of DI Richard Venables, Disaster Detective
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.
Louisa Treger’s literary novel The Lodger, which tells the story of the passionate affair between writer Dorothy Richardson and H. G. Wells. US rights sold to St Martin’s Press.
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.
Articles
Doug Wight, former News of the World Books Editor and now a freelance books consultant, looks at the importance of serial rights in The importance of serial .
Rosamund Murdoch reflects on reading the agency's slush pile in Lessons from the Slush Pile .
In How Do I Get My Memoir Published? Katy Weitz explains the role of a ghost and the process through to publication of a ghost written book.
Christian Jennings explains how to obtain exemption from US withholding tax in A guide to obtaining an American ITIN from the US IRS
Fifteen of the agency’s ghost writers say who they would like to ghost in Ghostly Aspirations
With best wishes, Andrew Lownie and David Haviland
