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Recent News
According to Publishers Marketplace, Andrew Lownie remains the top selling agent in the world across all categories with thirty-three recorded deals over the last six months with second place at thirty. Worldwide , the agency is no 1 UK Non-fiction, no 5 in history and current affairs and no 13 overall .
Chloe Banks’ debut novel The Art of Letting Go, recently published by Thistle Books, has broken into the Kindle top 50 bestsellers.
Nessa Carey’s Junk: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome was a ‘recommended read’ in Scientific American. It continues to generate numerous translation deals.
Daisy de Villeneuve’s new book I Should Have Said.: Quick-Witted Comebacks I Only Wish I'd Said to Friends and Lovers, a collection of esprit d’escalier quotes and illustrations, has had extensive publicity and there are now discussions with greeting cards and calendar companies.
Andy Donaldson’s Terrible Estate Agent Photos has had recent coverage in The Daily Mail, Mirror, Express and Independent.
Action director Simon West (Con Air, The Expendables 2) has come on board to direct Henry Cavill in Duncan Falconer special forces thriller Stratton, which is due to shoot in the UK and Italy this summer.
Michael Hartland’s The Third Betrayal , recently published by Thistle Books, was a no 1 Kindle bestseller on Amazon Australia.
Stewart Lansley’s Breadline Britain: The Return of Mass Poverty continues to generate publicity, including recent interviews on Radio 2 and LBC.
David Stafford’s Spies Beneath Berlin, recently published by Thistle Books, has moved into the Kindle top 5 in Australia, currently at #4.
Beyond the Call: The Incredible True Story of One American’s Life-or-Death Mission on the Eastern Front in World War II by Lee Trimble and Jeremy Dronfield was the subject of major features in Mail Online and the Mirror and went to no 3 in US Amazon’s World War Two bestsellers chart behind Unbroken and a biography of General Paton. Film offers continue to come in.
The latest ‘Maxwell’ detective mystery from M J Trow, Maxwell’s Return, went to no 1 in the Kindle bestseller list for Amazon Australia.
David Weston’s Covering Shakespeare has been shortlisted for this year’s Sheridan Morley prize for Theatre Biography. Previous winners include Rupert Everett, Stephen Sondheim, Simon Callow, Michael Holroyd and Dominic Dromgoole
Recent Sales
Simon & Schuster have bought world rights in Able Seacat Simon: The Wartime Hero of the High Seas by Lynne Barrett-Lee which recounts the adventures of the official ship’s cat aboard the naval Frigate, HMS Amethyst.
Harper Collins have bought world rights in three more books in the Hudson family series set on Bradford’s Canterbury estate by Julie Shaw - John's Girl, The Family: : a killer in our Street and Christine.
Ebury have bought The Secret Train Robber: My Life with the True Mastermind of the Great Train Robbery ,ghosted by MJ Trow, which promises, after fifty years silence, to reveal the mastermind behind the robbery
Harper Collins have bought world rights in two more Casey Watson fostering titles . The thirteenth book in the series, A Voice for Bella, centres round a five-year-old girl taken in because of domestic violence at home while the next book, The Girl Who Never Was is the story of fourteen-year-old Polish immigrant Adrianna.
Foreign Rights Sales
Spanish rights in Nessa Carey’s popular science title Junk: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome
Greek rights in Patrick Dillon’s novel Ithaca
Russian rights in Patrick Dillon’s The Story of Buildings
Chinese rights in Piu Eatwell’s They eat horses, don’t they?: The Truth about the French
Romanian rights in Ian Graham’s book on courtesans and mistresses Scarlet Women
Chinese rights in Michael Schuster’s Essential Winetasting
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
Helen Fry’s Dark Secrets and Silences: Allied Intelligence and the Holocaust
Adrian Gilbert’s revisionist and substantial Waffen SS: A Military History
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.
March Titles
Stanley Aylett’s Second World War memoir of medical service from Dunkirk and North Africa to D Day and liberating the concentration camps Surgeon at War
Francis Beckett’s account of how Tony Blair has amassed a fortune since being Prime Minister Blair Inc: The Man behind the Mask
Nessa Carey Junk: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome
The third in Malcolm Castle’s memoirs of his service as a fireman in Shropshire Going to Blazes?: Further Tales of a Country Fireman
Cathy Glass’s fostering memoir Saving Danny
Denise Williams’ Mummy's Little Angels: A mother's agonising story of losing her sons to a murderous father
Chris Woodford’s Atoms Under the Floorboards: The Secret Science Hidden in Your Home
Articles
Katy Weitz gives her publicity tips in Getting PR for your Book
Andrew Lownie will be speaking at Kingston University’s Publishing Conference on 28th March. More details at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/is-everyone-now-a-publisher-an-important-single-day-course-for-all-authors-tickets-4973074600
Best wishes, Andrew Lownie and David Haviland
Andrew Lownie Literary Agency Ltd.
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