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Recent News
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose fostering memoir about her adopted daughter Will You Love Me?: Lucy's Story has been number 1 in non-fiction paperback for the last two weeks and Marina Chapman whose memoir in the German translationThe Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of the Girl Raised by Monkeys has made the Spiegel best seller list .
Dominic Adler’s thriller The Ninth Circle has broken into the Amazon Top 50 bestsellers, and continues to rise.
Jeremy Clay’s The Burglar Caught By A Skeleton and Other Singular Stories from the Victorian Press. was serialised by the Daily Mail.
Piu Eatwell’s They eat horses, don’t they?: The Truth about the French went to No.2 in French History on Amazon.fr and was a Digested Read in The Guardian.
Congratulations to David Haviland, who was selected as one of The Bookseller’s Rising Stars of 2013.
Andrew Lownie remains the top selling agent on publishersmarketplace in all categories , throughout the world, with thirty-seven recorded deals in the last six months.
Joyce Mackenzie’s romantic novel The Gold Mohur Tree broke into the Kindle top 100 in France, and went to No 2 in English-language historical fiction, just below Hilary Mantel.
Made in Chelsea star, Spencer Matthew’s autobiography Confessions of a Chelsea Boy: : The Autobiography was serialised in Now Magazine.
Recent Sales
Mary Morris’s account of her front line nursing service during World War Two On Duty: The Diary of a Wartime Nurse , edited by Carol Acton, sold to Orion.
Adrian Clark’s life of the gay art patron and funder of Horizon Magazine and the ICA Peter Watson has been bought by John Blake.
Rachel Kelly’s memoir of coping with depression through poetry Black Rainbow: Breakdown to Breakthrough to Hodder for publication next April.
The Great War Diaries of Charlie May edited by his great-nephew writer Gerry Harrison have been bought by Harper Collins. The diaries, which cover the period November 1915 to May’s death in July 1916, have been used only sparingly - most notably for the 2005 drama The Somme where May is one of the characters .
Linda Porter has continued her association with Macmillan in the UK and St Martin’s Press in the US with Royal Renegades: the children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars which looks at the impact on King Charles 1’s family after his execution and their treatment by the victors under Oliver Cromwell.
Duckworth have bought World English rights in Professor Gary Smith’s Duped by Data which looks at the way statistics and data can be manipulated.
US rights in Lee Trimble’s life 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 have been bought by Penguin.
Andrew Lownie
Selected current Submissions
Actor, writer and tour guide Mark Conroy’s 52 Weekend Walks provides a themed walk for every weekend from Jack the Ripper and James Bond to Dickens and Harry Potter.
Jane Dismore’s Duchesses: Britain’s Duchesses in the twenty-first century in which ten living duchesses talk about their life and role and how a predecessor has inspired them.
Martin Hammond’s Ask a Silly Question: Messages from eBay's most troublesome customer, a collection of stupidly funny and completely genuine email exchanges between the quirky Fredrick Facedass and the online sellers of eBay.
Catherine Hewitt’s biography of the nineteenth century French courtesan Valtesse de la Bigne: A Courtesan’s Conquest of Paris
The hilarious memoirs of Mark Jenkins - ‘Manager Mark’ from the cult tv series The Hotel - Unbelievable! : My Life of Boom, Doom and Dolphin Racing
Christian Jennings’s account of the fierce fighting in Italy during 1944 Gothic Line : The First Battle of the Cold War
Former Sunday Times’s film critic Iain Johnstone’s memoir of his Close Encounters with Hollywood actors from John Wayne and Barbra Streisand to Christopher Reeve and Pierce Brosnan.
Banker and historian David Lough’s ‘Churchill and his Money: A Perfect Sieve’ the hitherto unknown story of Churchill’s lifetime of problems with his personal finances.
Brazilian model Gabriella Santos’s memoir Full Brazilian : The true story of baring all in the front line of lap dancing lifting the lid on the lap dancing clubs, punters and girls.
Natacha Tormey’s memoir The Family: a childhood born into a religious cult.
David Haviland
Fiction Submissions
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.
Paul Callan’s The Dulang Washer, a powerful historical novel set in the tin mines of 19th century Malaya. Longlisted for the prestigious IMPAC Literary Award.
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.
October Titles
Paul Jones’s Haggard Hawks and Paltry Poltroons
David Long’s Bizarre London
Peter Padfield’s Hess, Hitler and Churchill: The Real Turning Point of World War Two - A Secret History
Mei Trow’s Swearing Like A Trooper
Casey Watson’s A Last Kiss for Mummy
With best wishes,
Andrew Lownie and David Haviland
