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April News
The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency will be judging The Guardian’s new monthly literary prize for self-published authors.
Coming Up Trumps ghosted by agency author Deborah Crewe, and recently serialised in theMail on Sunday, is no 5 in the Sunday Times hardback non-fiction list this week. The book, according to The Bookseller, was the sixth most reviewed book this week.
Agency author Warwick Davis’s six part series, ‘Weekend Escapes with Warwick Davis’, about holidaying in Britain has just started on ITV.
Cathy Glass’s Daddy's Little Princess was no 7 in the paperback non-fiction list last week - her fifth consecutive week in the paperback non-fiction bestseller list.
A BBC 2 series The Birth of Empire: The East India Company, for which Robert Hutchinson was a consultant, began last week.
Rachel Kelly’s memoir of coping with depression through poetry Black Rainbow: How words healed me - my journey through depression serialised in both the Times and You magazine, was number one in its categories ranging from poetry to depression and rose to no 70 in the overall Amazon rankings .
Stolen Voices ghosted by agency author Shannon Kyle, went to no 7 in the paperback non-fiction list . Cathy Glass’s Daddy’s Little Princess was no 4 in the same week making two agency titles in the top ten that week.
Christopher Moran won this year’s St Ermin’s Hotel Intelligence Book of the Year for his Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain which looks at government attempts to stifle public discussion of intelligence matters.
Nick Pope’s Encounter in Rendlesham Forest, serialised in the Daily Mail, was the number one UFO book on Amazon.
Mandy Smith’s Cabin Fever serialised in the Sun, went to no 11 on Amazon Paid Kindle.
Last Gentleman of the SAS:: John Randall’s War 1939-45 , the memoirs of the SAS officer who uncovered the horrors of Belsen, were serialised in the Daily Mail.
April Deals
Head of Zeus have bought UK rights in banker and Oxford historian David Lough’s Churchill and his Money: A Perfect Sieve’ which tells the fascinating story of Churchill’s lifetime of tangled personal finances.
They also bought UK & Commonwealth rights in Elizabeth Norton’s The Seymour Scandal about Elizabeth 1’s relationship with her step-mother’s husband Thomas Seymour, and in Great Ladies: the Women Who Shaped Henry VIII’s Court and UK rights in Monica Porter’s memoir Raven: My Year of Dating Dangerously originally published by Thistle.
Chinese rights in Nessa Carey’s The Epigenetics Revolution
German rights in Patrick Dillon’s children’s history The Story of Buildings
Hungarian rights in Cathy Glass’s My Dad’s A Policeman
Korean rights in Ian Graham’s The Ultimate Book of Impostors
German & Chinese rights in Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers
Andrew Lownie
Selected current submissions
Geoff Andrew’s James Klugmann and the Hopes and Fears of British Communism. a biography of the influential Communist which also sheds new light on ‘The Climate of Treason’ and wartime recognition of Tito,
Journalist Duncan Campbell’s We'll All Be Murdered In Our Beds: a history of the world of crime reporting
The memoirs of the legendary SAS soldier Rusty Firmin who led one of the two assault teams which stormed the Iranian Embassy in London in May 1980. The Regiment: 15 Years in the SAS
Ian Graham’s biographical collection Courtesan 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.
Michele Humphrey’s Irreplaceable, ghosted by Caro Handley, is a memoir of how a young mother coped with the suicide of her husband.
British Yemini Diana Kader’s memoir Hear My Cry –of her inspiring fight against forced marriage and ‘honour crimes’.
Sian Mackay 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.
Tracy Norton’s For the Love of Lexie is the account of one woman’s fight – firstly to help her daughter overcome addiction, and then, when that failed, to keep her grand-daughter Lexie safe.
Tim Tate’s Hitler, Erika and M a 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.
Lee Trimble’s biography of his father Beyond the Call: The Incredible True Story of One American’s Life-or-Death Mission on the Eastern Front in World War II tells the extraordinary World War Two story of an US pilot who covertly smuggled over a thousand people to freedom, including American POWs, foreign slave labourers and concentration camp inmates, from his airbase in the Ukraine. US rights sold to Penguin
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.
May Publications
Gurpareet Bains’s The Superfood Diet
Laura Corr’s Eat Your Way To Lower Cholesterol: : Delicious Recipes to Reduce Your Cholesterol by up to 20% in Under Three Months...
Michael Jago’s Clement Attlee: The Inevitable Prime Minister
Angus Konstam’s Bannockburn: Scotland’s Greatest Battle For Independence
Marni Mulholland’s memoir of sexual grooming Raw
The paperbacks of Peter Padfield’s Hess, Hitler and Churchill: The Real Turning Point of World War Two - A Secret History and Noreen Riols’s SOE memoir The Secret Ministry of Ag. & Fish
With best wishes, Andrew Lownie and David Haviland
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