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June News
Both Andrew Lownie and David Haviland contribute some thoughts on the future of publishing to this month's "Ideas Issue" of New Edition. Online version (P 10-11)
Andrew Lownie spoke at the Getting Published event at the University of Warwick, on the subject of The Value of a Literary Agent while David Haviland was one of the guest tutors at the Paris Writers Workshop.
David Haviland was one of the judges for the Guardian’s new Self-published Book of the Month competition. He also chose the counterfactual WWII novel ‘Waffen SS Britain’ by Paul Hurley as the winner of this month’s IPR Agent’s Pick competition.
Gurparet Bains’s The Superfood Diet was no 7 in The Book People best seller chart in the Observer.
Agency author Professor Tom Devine was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to Scottish history whilst Mark Seaman received an MBE
Jonathan Fryer’s fascinating social history Soho in the Fifties and Sixties went to #1 in its Amazon category charts.
The Times serialised two pieces from Gerry Harrison’s edition of his great-uncle’s diaries, To Fight Alongside Friends: The Great War Diaries of Charlie May
Rachel Kelly’s Black Rainbow: How words healed me - my journey through depression continues to generate good media coverage and reviews including a full page interview in the Daily Telegraph and appearance on Woman’s Hour. The book was no 1 in both the Times and Observer bestseller lists
Child Soldiers of WWII, based on Sean Longden’s Blitz Kids was shown on Channel 5 on July 3rd
Katharine Quarmby published a timely new short story about the origins of the First World War. The Priest, the Assassin, and Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Marni Mulholland’s memoir Raw was no 15 in the paperback best seller list.
Vikie Shanks launched the publication of her memoir Unravelled: The inspirational true story of a journey out of darkness with an appearance on ITV’s This Morning and a double spread Daily Mail feature. The book went straight into the Top 10 ‘Movers and Shakers’ on Amazon.
Mandy Smith & Nicola Stow’s Cabin Fever was serialised in the Sunday Sun and continues to generate huge attention.
Casey Watson’s The Girl Without a Voice is no 5 in this weeks paperback non-fiction list having gone straight into the list at no 9 the previous week.
June Sales
David Long’s new book Bizarre England has been bought by Michael O’Mara.
Biteback have bought UK rights in prize-winning intelligence historian Christopher Moran’s Company Confessions: The CIA, Secrecy and Memoir Writing US rights have been sold to St Martin’s Press.
Michael O’Mara have commissioned a new life of the French Resistance fighter Lucie Aubrac from historian Sian Rees, author of The Floating Brothel.
Picador have bought US rights in David Lough’s book on Winston Churchill’s precarious finances No More Champagne: Churchill and his Money. UK rights have been bought by Head of Zeus.
July Publications
Gerry Harrison’s edition of To Fight Alongside Friends: The Great War Diaries of Charlie May published by Harper Collins
Emma O’Reilly’s account of her professional relationship with Lance Armstrong ,written with Shannon Kyle, Race to Truth published by Transworld
Natacha Tormey’s memoir, written with Nadene Ghouri, Born into the Children of God published by Harper Collins.
Two new articles were added to the website in June:
Katy Weitz’s A Week in the life of a ghostwriter
How We Work Together part 1 and part 2 in which forty agency authors describe the relationship they have with Andrew Lownie and the agency.
Best wishes, Andrew Lownie and David Haviland
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