News
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Two articles from Joff Sharpe
08 Mar 2014
Business guru Joff Sharpe has been busy, with two fascinating articles published this week:
Year of the Human Swiss Army Knife
Be courageous. If you don’t dare, how can you possibly win?
Joff’s book Who Dares Wins in Business, recently released by Thistle Publishing, is generating great reviews.
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Warren Durrant is first IPR Agent's Pick of 2014
08 Mar 2014
‘Each month, IPR License shortlists five titles which then go on to be judged by our partner agency, The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency. We were very pleased to announce in February that Warren Durrant had won the latest IPR License ‘Agents Pick’ for his memoir Across the Wide Zambezi.’
“A pacy, entertaining memoir, by turns fascinating and amusing, with an appealing narrative voice.” David Haviland
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Katharine Quarmby nominated for Bread and Roses award
08 Mar 2014
Katharine Quarmby has been nominated for a Bread and Roses award. Now in its third year, the Bread & Roses Awards seek to celebrate excellence in the field of radical political non-fiction.
Katharine’s latest Kindle Single Aftermath is available for just 99p.
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Little Drifters is no 13
04 Mar 2014
Congratulations to Kathleen O’Shea whose Little Drifters: Kathleen’s Story remains a third week in the non-fiction paperback list .
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Monica Porter in Evening Standard
04 Mar 2014
Monica Porter’s Raven: My Year of Dating Dangerously was featured in Sam Leith’s column in the Evening Standard
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Monica Porter makes front page news a second day running
03 Mar 2014
Following the first week of serial in yesterdays Mail on Sunday, Monica Porter’s memoir Raven: My Year of Dating Dangerously is a front page feature in today’s Daily Mail
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Agency ranked 5th in world
03 Mar 2014
With the announcement today of several more deals on Publishers Marketplace, Andrew Lownie’s position as the top selling agent in the world has been consolidated. He now has 60 recorded deals with his nearest rival at 44. The agency is ranked fifth in the world in terms of books sold.
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Serial of Monica Porter's Raven makes news worldwide
02 Mar 2014
The first week of the Mail on Sunday’s serial of Monica Porter’s memoir Raven: My Year of Dating Dangerously made front page news and has generated worldwide interest in other rights
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Terrific early reviews for Jessie Childs' God's Traitors
01 Mar 2014
“ Childs has employed her impressive research skills and storytelling verve to bring that past vividly to life”. Daily Telegraph
“This vivid, minutely researched and brilliantly original history is a much-needed look at the dark side of the Elizabethan age.” Dan Jones Sunday Times
“Jessie Childs, author of an excellent biography of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, has hit on the inspired idea of exploring them through the recusant Vaux family – a tale of spies and skulduggery, of casuistry and unshakable belief, of torture, martyrdom, and the ferocious collision and confusion of politics and religion… Childs writes in a breezy, engaging style, of a period in English history too often clogged by breathy romance or earnest sanctimony…. God’s Traitors is scholarly, absorbing, even-handed and relevant.” Ben McIntyre, The Times
