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This page lists recent news from the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency, as well as updates to the website and any other useful information.

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  • May 13 2012: Andrew Lownie's 'typical' week

    Andrew Lownie’s article for the website ‘What People Do’ on a ‘typical’ working week can be found at here .

  • May 12 2012: Two more foreign rights sales

    Portuguese rights in Casey Watson’s The Boy No One Loved and Crying for Help to Presenca and Romanian rights in Daniel Tammet’s Born on a Blue Day to Editura Philobia.

  • May 12 2012: Two Agency Titles in Top Ten

    This week’s Bookseller non-fiction paperback list has Cathy Glass’s A Baby’s Cry at no 5 and The Baby Laundry for Unmarried Mothers ghosted by Lynne Barrett-Lee at no 10.

  • May 11 2012: The Baby Laundry for Unmarried Mothers is no 13

    Congratulations to Lynne Barrett-Lee the ghost on The Baby Laundry for Unmarried Mothers which remains in the paperback non-fiction bestseller list at no 13.

  • May 10 2012: A Baby's Cry at no 12

    Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose A Baby’s Cry remains in the best seller list at #12.

  • May 10 2012: MJ Trow long-listed for this year's Dagger in the Library Award

    Congratulations to MJ Trow who has been long-listed for this year’s Dagger in the Library Award . This is awarded for an author’s body of work rather than an individual book, the stipulation is that it’s for British authors who have had at least three books published and the writers are nominated by library users and chosen by a panel of librarians. The shortlist will be announced at CrimeFest in Bristol on Friday, May 25th.

  • May 10 2012: SOE Agent biography to St Martin's Press

    US rights in Clare Mulley’s life of the World War Two SOE agent Christine Granville, to be published by Macmillan in UK, have been sold to St Martin’s Press with Penguin the under-bidder.

  • May 04 2012: SOE Agent biography to Harper Collins

    Harper Collins have bought UK & Commonwealth rights to Susan Ottaway’s joint biography of the World War Two SOE agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne for publication next spring.

  • May 01 2012: Two agency best sellers

    Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose A Baby’s Cry is no 6 and Lynne Barrett-Lee the ghost on The Baby Laundry for Unmarried Mothers which is no 11 in the paperback non-fiction list this week.

  • May 01 2012: Two agency books are included in the Kindle daily deal mailing this week

    Two agency books are included in the Amazon Kindle daily deal mailing this week:

    The Boy No One Loved by Casey Watson

    I Miss Mummy by Cathy Glass