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  • Andrew Lownie remains the top selling agent in the world

    01 Mar 2014

    According to Publishers Marketplace , Andrew Lownie remains the top selling agent in the world across all categories with 55 recorded US & UK deals over the last six months His nearest rival has 44 deals. The agency is ranked seventh worldwide behind large agencies such as Trident, Writers House and William Morris.

    In the category UK Non-fiction, he is also top with 57 deals over twelve months with the no 2 agent at 10 deals . The agency is top with the Viney Agency second at 12 deals.

    Lownie is also top worldwide in biography .

    In history/politics/current affairs, the agency is joint second worldwide with William Morris and two deals behind Trident Media Group.

  • Andrew Lownie's upcoming events

    27 Feb 2014

    Andrew will be speaking at the London Author Fair on Friday 28th February:
    Noon. Panel - Agents of Change: the Evolution of the Literary Agent
    2pm. Pitch Up
    5.30pm. The Big Publishing Brain Storm: how can we get to where we want to be in 2020?

    Then on Monday, Andrew will be speaking at the Biographers Club.

  • New Daisy de Villeneuve title to Hardie Grant

    26 Feb 2014

    Hardie Grant have bought Daisy de Villeneuve’s new collection of whimsical illustrated books I Should Have Said .

  • Orion buys Eat Your Way To Lower Cholesterol

    26 Feb 2014

    Andrew Lownie has sold Eat Your Way To Lower Cholesterol: Delicious Recipes to Reduce Your Cholesterol by up to 20% in Under Three Months..., ,based on one of the most popular diet plans produced by the Mail on Sunday , and co-written by the agency’s author Dr Laura Corr, to Orion Books.

  • Clare Mulley's The Women Who Flew for Hitler to Macmillan and St Martin's Press

    26 Feb 2014

    Clare Mulley’s new book The Women Who Flew for Hitler: Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg, a joint biography of Nazi Germany’s most highly honoured female test-pilots, has been sold to Macmillan in the UK and St Martin’s Press in the US. This book searches for the truth about these two women, whose lives were so intertwined, asking why they were so successful, how they came to be so skilled and how they felt about serving Hitler, raising important questions around women’s willing denial and coercion in the Third Reich.

  • Eleventh and twelfth in Casey Watson series to Harper Collins

    26 Feb 2014

    Harper Collins have commissioned two further title in Casey Watson’s successful fostering series . Too Ugly for Love revolves around eight-year old Phillipa, who has Foetal Alcohol Syndrome, and The Runaway tells the story of Leo who sent to Casey’s unit because of his truancy.

  • New Cathy Glass to Harper Collins

    26 Feb 2014

    Harper Collins have commissioned a thirteenth fostering memoir from international bestselling author Cathy Glass. The Child Bride is the true story of Zeena who was forced to marry at the age of 13.

  • Daily Mail serialisation for 'Out of Winter'

    26 Feb 2014

    Carol Lee’s Out of Winter, published this week by Hodder, is serialised in today’s Daily Mail.

    Should a daughter give up everything to care for the parents she thinks failed HER as a child? The dilemma faced by one woman when her ageing mother and father became frail and ill

  • Recent Foreign Rights Sales

    26 Feb 2014

    Jonathan Conlin’s Tales of Two Cities to Japan

    Roger Crowley’s City of Fortune in Russian

  • St Martin's Press buys book on Courtesans

    26 Feb 2014

    US rights in Ian Graham’s Courtesan, which 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 , have been bought by St Martin’s Press.