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Recent News
Chloe Banks’s debut novel The Art of Letting Go was one of the top 100 most-read titles on Kindle for a second month running.
Queer Saint: The Cultured Life of Peter Watson by Adrian Clark and Jeremy Dronfield was the subject of a two-page feature in theIndependent
Patrick Dillon’s The Story of Buildings has been shortlisted for the 2015 English 4-11 Picture Book Awards. The winners will be announced at a presentation at the British Academy on 27th May. It is also one of three short-listed books in the 12-16 year old age group for this year’s School Library Association Information Book Award.
The Lightless Sky: An Afghan Refugee Boy’s Journey by Gulwali Passarlay and ghosted by agency author Nadene Ghouri was one of the buzz books of the London Book Fair after a six-figure UK sale to Atlantic Books
Cathy Glass’s Saving Danny has now been in the best seller lists for almost two months. Her Will You Love Me?: Lucy's Story was no 9 on the New York Times e-books bestseller list.
Ian Graham was shortlisted for this year’s ALCS children’s nonfiction prize for The Danger Zone: Avoid Being Sir Isaac Newton!
There were daily snippets from Paul Jones’ Word Drops: A sprinkling of literary curiosities on Radio Four’s The World At One.
Gordon Lewis’s Secret Child was serialised in the Mail on Sunday.
Andrew Lownie has written an extensive piece for the latest issue of Publishing Talk on How an agency sells its authors
Vanessa Nicolson’s powerful family memoir Have You Been Good? was serialised in the Sunday Times.
Linda Porter appeared in the Channel 5 programme The Last Days Of Charles 1
Following Denise Williams’ moving interview on the Jeremy Vine show, Mummy's Little Angels: A mother's agonising story of losing her sons to a murderous father moved into the Amazon top 50 bestsellers, and #1 in Movers & Shakers.
Recent Sales
St Martin’s Press have bought US rights in another book on France from Piu Eatwell F is for France: A Francophile’s Alphabet Book
Da Capo have bought World English rights in a book on the military wing of Himmler’s SS and one of the most feared combat organizations of the 20th century, Adrian Gilbert’s Waffen SS: A Military History
Harper Collins have bought world rights in two new Cathy Glass fostering memoirs. The first A Dark and Dangerous Place will be published in February.
Foreign Rights Sales
Chinese rights in Patrick Dillon’s The Story of Buildings
Czech rights in Piu Eatwell’s They eat horses, don’t they?: The Truth about the French
Russian rights in Christian Wolmar’s To the edge of the world: The Story of the World's Greatest Railway
Recent Film and TV Options
Call the Vet: Farmers, Dramas and Disasters - My First Year as a Country Vet by Anna Birch and Deborah Crewe has been optioned by Red Planet Pictures.
Essential Media in Australia have optioned Mark Felton’s Zero Night: The Most Daring Great Escape of World War II
Helen Fry’s The M Room: Secret Listeners who Bugged the Nazis has been optioned by Inflammable Films.
Drama rights in Neil McKenna’s account of two nineteenth-century cross-dressers Fanny & Stella have been optioned by Bentley Productions.
Sean McMeekin’s The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East has been optioned by Clear story.
Clare Mulley’s life of the Second World War agent Christine Granville, The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville has been optioned by Universal Pictures.
Documentary rights in Peter Padfield’s Hess, Hitler and Churchill: The Real Turning Point of World War Two - A Secret Historyhave been optioned by Far Moor Media.
Sam Pivnik’s memoir of his incarceration in Auschwitz Survivor: Auschwitz, The Death March and My Fight for Freedom has been optioned by Blue-Zoo Productions
Andrew Lownie: Selected submissions
Journalist Peter Allen’s account of the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices Another Side of Paris : Terrorist War in the City of Light
Bill Callahan’s memoir of his highly secret mission to help free fifty-two American diplomats held hostage in the Islamic Republic of Iran,Silent Justice, - a suspenseful insider account of America’s first battle with militant Islam.
Piu Eatwell’s F is for France: A Francophile’s Alphabet Book. US rights sold to St Martin’s Press.
Peter Forbes’ No More Magic Bullets?: The antibiotic crisis and how we’re going to solve it
Helen Fry’s Dark Secrets and Silences: Allied Intelligence and the Holocaust
Patrick Garrett’s biography Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth – first of the female war correspondents
David Harper and Mei Trow’s Harper’s Antiques and Anecdotes which deals with where and how to buy antiques, care for the acquired piece and tips to guide the novice buyer/collector through the maze of information
Danny Orbach’s Networks of Resistance: A New History of the German Resistance to Hitler. North American rights sold to Houghton Mifflin.
Nicola Tallis’s life of Lady Jane Grey Crown of Blood
Martin Williams’ Stinking rich politicians: Exposing financial greed in Parliament.
David Haviland: Selected submissions
Thank You For This Life, the extraordinary, shocking new novel from the celebrated German writer Sibylle Berg.
Rickshaw a gritty, comic tale of London nightlife and redemption from David McGrath.
The Last Fiesta, a tense literary novel, set around the Pamplona running of the bulls. Shortlisted for the Longbarn Books First Novel Award.
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.
Ithaca by Patrick Dillon, an exciting, action-packed historical novel, based on Homer’s Odyssey.
May Titles
The paperback of Piu Eatwell’s The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue
The paperback of Adrian Gilbert’s Challenge of Battle: The Real Story of the British Army in 1914
Robert Hutchinson’s The Audacious Crimes of Colonel Blood: he Spy Who Stole the Crown Jewels and Became the King's Secret Agent
The American paperback of John Jobling’s U2: The Definitive Biography
David Long’s Bizarre England
A Very Dangerous Woman : The Lives,. Loves and Lies of Russia’s Most Seductive Spy by Debbie Mcdonald and Jeremy Dronfield
Tressa: The 12-Year-Old-Mum by Tressa Middleton and Katy Weitz
Vanessa Nicolson’s memoir Have You Been Good?
Articles
David Craig’s Using YouTube to promote your books
Andrew Lownie will be leading a Guardian master class on ghost writing with Andrew Crofts on 4th July and teaching at Writing At The Castle 2015 5th-7th July.
Best wishes, Andrew Lownie and David Haviland
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