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August Sales
UK rights in journalist Duncan Campbell’s We'll All Be Murdered In Our Beds: a history of the world of crime reporting have been sold to Elliott & Thompson.
Eliott & Thompson have also bought UK rights in Paul Jones’s Nothing Rhymes With Orange a chain of 1,000 weird and wonderful words and word trivia , creating a fact-by-fact journey through the dictionary and the languages of the world from aardvark to zenzizenzizenzic.
Seconds to Snap: The Horrifying True Story of One Girl’s Descent into Anorexia by Tina McGuff with Katy Weitz has been sold to John Blake.
UK rights in Tim Tate’s Hitler's Forgotten Children 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 - have been sold to Eliott & Thompson.
Alice Vasey’s fostering memoir Afraid to Tell: The true story of two troubled children with a dark family secret has been sold to Ebury
Foreign rights sales include:
Georgian rights in Nessa Carey’s The Epigenetics Revolution
German rights in the satanic sex cult memoir The Devil on my Doorstep by Annabelle Forest and Katy Weitz
Sri Lankan rights in Cathy Glass’s Daddy's Little Princess
August News
Andrew Lownie , according to Publishers Marketplace, remains the top selling agent for UK non-fiction – 54 deals over the last year with the second-placed agent at 10 – and first for biography worldwide.
Dickie Arbiter’s On Duty with the Queen. reached #22 in the Amazon bestseller list on pre-orders alone though the book is not released until October 1st. Australian rights have been sold to Five Mile Press.
Nicholas Best’s Five Days That Shocked The World: An Oral History of Europe at the End of World War Two was Amazon’s No 1 best seller in 4 different categories
Andy Donaldson’s Terrible Estate Agent Photos was serialised in the Sun, received extensive worldwide publicity and was the lead story on Mail online.
Serial rights in Annabelle Forest and Katy Weitz’s The Devil on my Doorstep were sold to theDaily Mail
Martin Hammond’s Ask a Silly Question: Messages from eBay's trickiest customer was no 1 on Amazon bestseller parody list .
Randal Hansen’s Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance after July 20, 1944 published by Faber and OUP(USA) has been receiving rave reviews.
The inspirational memoir Unravelled: The inspirational true story of a journey out of darkness by Vikie Shanks was selected as a Kindle Daily Deal and already has 24 Amazon 5* reviews.
Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers was #13 on the New York Times Science Bestsellers list for the week ending 10th August:
Casey Watson was at No. 7, 8 & 9 in the Sunday Times paperback bestseller list, with her powerful memoir The Girl Without a Voice. The book was in the top ten for seven straight weeks.
Andrew Lownie: current submissions
Nicholas Best’s oral history of Pearl Harbour Seven Days of Infamy
Ian Graham’s biographical collection The Wrong Side of the Blanket 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.
Paddy Hayes’s Daphne Park: Queen of Spies, the first biography of a major British Cold War intelligence figure for almost twenty years.
Sean Longden’s From Prisoners of War to Partisans which tells the long-forgotten story of Allied prisoners of war who were captured by the Italians and Germans during the Mediterranean campaign in World War 2.
Sian Mackay’s 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.
Art Hunter : Searching for the World’s Missing Masterpieces ,the memoir of Chris Marinello who has helped to recover stolen, Nazi-looted, or missing artwork worth over £300million. US rights sold to St Martin’s Prss.
Harvard historian Danny Orbach’s Networks of Resistance: A New History of the German Resistance to Hitler
Gulfstream Girl: Confessions of a Private Jet Stewardess by Saskia Swann and Nicola Stow
An account of his various undercover investigations by Neville Thurlbeck, Investigations Editor of the News of the World, Tabloid Secrets
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.
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.
September Publications
Jane Dismore’s study of contemporary duchesses, Duchesses: Living in 21st Century Britain
Piu Eatwell’s The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue
Cathy Glass’s fostering memoir The Child Bride
Gary Smith’s Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions,Tortured Data and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics
Best wishes, Andrew Lownie and David Haviland
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