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Recent News
The agency had three titles in the top twenty paperback non-fiction list the week of April 23rd with Cathy Glass’s fostering memoir Please Don’t Take My Baby, Susan Ottaway’s Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne and Casey Watson’s Mummy's Little Helper: The heartrending true story of a young girl secretly caring for her severely disabled mother.
Marina Chapman’s The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of the Girl Raised by Monkeys and the agency were the subject of a Private Eye cartoon. The book went to no 4 in the Sunday Times hardback best seller list .
James Davies’s Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good was serialised in the Times, was BBC's Focus Magazine 'book of the month' and had rave reviews.
Cathy Glass’s fostering memoir Please Don’t Take My Baby is non-fiction paperback no 1 this week.
Chloe Govan’s Amy Winehouse: The Untold Story was serialised in The Sun.
Christian Guiltenane, the ghost for Spencer Matthews: Confessions of a Lady Thriller to be published in the autumn by Sidgwick, was appointed editor of OK!.
David Haviland was one of four literary agents judging the WowFactor 2013 competition for debut authors run by the Cornerstones Literary Consultancy
Emily Lloyd’s memoir Wish I Was There was serialised in the Mail on Sunday.
Andrew Lownie was No 1 in Agents worldwide on Publishers Marketplace.
Kirk Norcross and Emma Donnan’s Essex Boy was no 5 in the Sunday Times non-fiction hardback chart.
Susan Ottaway’s Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WWII Special Agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne , the subject of a double page spread in the Daily Mail, went to no 9 in the paperback non-fiction list.
Amazon have selected three agency titles for their May Kindle promotion – David Stafford’s Churchill & Secret Service and Spies Beneath Berlin and Mary Hollingsworth’s Conclave
Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers was selected for Publishers Weekly Best Summer Books 2013.
Reg Twigg’s Survivor on the River Kwai was serialised in the Mail on Sunday.
Casey Watson’s Just a Boy was the number one memoir on Amazon.co.uk this week.
Karen Woods’s remarkable learning achievement were recognised with a Learning for Work Individual Award - supported by the National Open College Network (NOCN).
Recent Sales
Virgin have bought Get the Vet the first in a proposed series of veterinary memoirs by Anna Barrington .
Michael Jago’s revisionist new biography Clement Attlee: The Inevitable Prime Minister was sold to Biteback.
The Folio Society, who have published several of Desmond Seward’s books , most notably the best selling Monks of War, have bought his revised biography of Richard III. UK paperback and foreign rights are now on offer.
Harper Collins have bought two further fostering memoirs from Casey Watson - The Girl Without a Voice and Taming Tyler.
Alan Baker’s novel Dyatlov Pass was sold to Estonia
Bob Hutchinson’s Spanish Armada was bought by St Martin’s Press in America
German rights were sold in Ian Millthorpe and Lynne Barrett-Lee’s memoir Mum's Way
Andrew Lownie
Selected current Submissions
Nicholas Best continues his series of snapshot evocations of critical periods of history, through the lives of dozens of famous people, by looking at the seven days around Pearl Harbour in Seven Days of Infamy.
Louise Chapman’s ghosted memoir of the intersex Joella Holliday She's A Boy.
Jacky Donovan’s amusing memoir of her career as a dominatrix Just Desserts : Instant Whips and Dream Toppings full of revelations about her famous clients, including Cabinet Ministers and someone linked to Royal Family, which already has enormous serial interest.
Historian Mark Felton’s account Zero Night: The Most Daring Great Escape of World War II
Eleanor Fitzsimon’s Wilde's Women which explores the many rewarding relationships that the writer Oscar Wilde enjoyed with a series of fascinating and accomplished women throughout his life.
Glyn Gowan’s revisionist biography , Prince George: Duke of Kent, which reassesses the reputation of George V’s most handsome, glamorous and cultured son.
Chloe Govan’s biography Psychoanalysing Russell Brand.
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.
The memoirs of singer Michelle Heaton Michelle Heaton: Survivor.
Louise Kingsley’s memoir , ghosted by Lynne Barrett-Lee, of her nine years as an internet webcam porn star Pay Per View
House historian Ellen Leslie’s My House Used To Be A …. a useful guide to those wanting to unlock the history of their converted home themselves from the everyday schools, barns and chapels to the more unusual military barracks, police stations and railway carriages.
Sean Longden’s Deliver us from Evil:: The Liberation of the Concentration Camps, 1945.
Silent Food: making sense of the modern diet the modern equivalent of Rachel Carson’s iconic book on environmental toxins Silent Spring. by Stephanie Matthews and Anthony Campbell.
Christopher Moran’s Company Confessions: The CIA, Secrecy and Memoir Writing. US rights sold.
The memoirs of female private investigator Gina Negus The Lady Detectives
Monica Porter’s Single, sexy and sixty a memoir and self help guide for the over-fifties.
Vikie Shanks’s Unravelled memoirs of how she was left to bring up seven children, all on the autism spectrum and two with cerebral palsy, after her husband committed suicide.
Joff Sharpe’s business tips drawn from his service in the SAS Who Dares Wins in Business: Doing business the SAS way
Gary Smith’s Duped by Data a collection of dozens of examples of tortuous reasoning,
Mandy Smith’s Cabin Fever a raunchy and hilarious, account of what it’s like to be a stewardess in the modern world of air travel.
Yinka Thomas’s revolutionary new The Konjac Diet a weight loss and weight management plan that incorporates what has been described as ‘the perfect food’ – Konjac.
Natacha Tormey’s memoir The Family: a childhood born into a religious cult.
Lee Trimble’s biography of his father Fighting Bastard of the Ukraine: The Story of Captain Robert M. Trimble which tells the extraordinary World War Two story of an US pilot who covertly smuggled over a thousand people to freedom, including American POWs, foreign slave labourers and concentration camp inmates from his airbase in the Ukraine.
The Independent’s Moscow correspondent Shaun Walker’s history of Russia through the prism of the Bolshoi theatre Bolshoi: A history of Russia from Catherine the Great to Putin.
The memoirs of real life Ace Ventura Tom Watkins, who runs Europe’s largest, and most successful, pet detective agency ,Tails of a Pet Detective.
Chris Woodford’s Backdoor Science, an exploration of the science of everyday life which picks out the fascinating and surprising scientific explanations behind a variety of very common (and often entertainingly mundane) household phenomena, from gurgling drains and squeaky floorboards to rubbery custard and shiny shoes.
David Haviland
Non-Fiction Submissions
Matt Shoard’s Thin Wild Mercury: The Voice of Bob Dylan, a collection of essays by Dylan fans including Paul Morley, George Galloway MP, and AL Kennedy.
Fiction Submissions
Kidon, an epic wartime revenge drama by Robert Dickinson, which unfolds over the course of three major twentieth century conflicts.
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.
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.
Casey Kelleher’s gritty sink estate crime novel, in the tradition of Martina Cole, Rise and Fall
Louisa Treger’s literary novel The Lodger, which tells the story of the passionate affair between writer Dorothy Richardson and H. G. Wells.
Mungo Lyon and the Adventure of the Double Headed Eagle, an old-fashioned spy thriller by Stephen O’Rourke, in the style of John Buchan.
Dominic Selwood’s The Sword Of Moses, an epic crypto-thriller in the style of Dan Brown, involving the Knights Templar, Nazis, and the Ark of the Covenant.
Forthcoming Books for June
Jonathan Conlin’s Tales of Two Cities: Paris and London, 1750-1914
Frank Ledwidge’s Investment in Blood: The true cost of Britain’s disastrous Afghan Adventure
Casey Watson’s Breaking the Silence: Two little boys, lost and unloved. One foster carer determined to make a difference.
The paperback of Sam Pivnik’s Survivor: Auschwitz, The Death March and My Fight for Freedom
At this year’s London Book Fair, Andrew Lownie took part in a panel discussion on The Future of Literary Agents, which has been usefully summarised and reviewed here…
The Future of Literary Agents and in a report in Publishers Week at Publishers Weekly
Best wishes, Andrew Lownie and David Haviland
