News
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Marina Chapman is bestseller
10 Apr 2013
Marina Chapman’s The Girl With No Name is currently at number six in the overall Amazon bestseller chart, and number two in ‘Movers and Shakers’.
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Three agency books in top fifteen...
09 Apr 2013
Congratulations to the following agency authors for making the top fifteen non-fiction paperback list this week:
Kris Hollington for Unthinkable:The Shocking Scandal of Britain’s Trafficked Children at no 14
Casey Watson for Mummy’s Little Helper: The heart rending true story of a young girl secretly caring for her severely disabled mother at no 11
Susan Ottaway for Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WW2 Special Agents at no 7
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London Book Fair
09 Apr 2013
The agency is gearing up for the London Book Fair.
Andrew is profiled here .
And there are some author tips from Andrew and David on Novelicious.
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Jacket endorsements for Daniel Tammet's Thinking in Numbers
04 Apr 2013
Daniel Tammet’s Thinking in Numbers , to be published in the US in July, has garnered some amazing quotes from some leading writers :
“Always entertaining, Tammet never loses his respect for the mystery of the universe of number” - J. M. Coetzee
“Thinking in Numbers enlarges one’s wonder at Tammet’s mind and his all-embracing vision of the world as grounded in numbers” - Oliver Sacks, MD
“A mind-expanding, kinetic aesthetic experience. Tammet’s poetic mathematics are beautiful guideposts for thinking about life and even love. As I read, I found myself saying, ‘Yes, this is true, and this is true, and this is so true.’” - Amy Tan
“Engrossing. Fascinating” - Billy Collins
“Intriguing. Provocative. An adventure.” - Lydia Davis
“A dazzling storyteller. Innovative.” - David Eagleman
“Sublime. Movingly peculiar and wise.” - Kurt Andersen
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Three agency titles in top twenty paperback non-fiction list
03 Apr 2013
Congratulations to the following agency authors for making the top twenty non-fiction paperback list this week:
Casey Watson for Mummy’s Little Helper: The heart rending true story of a young girl secretly caring for her severely disabled mother at no 7
Susan Ottaway for Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice: The True Story of WW2 Special Agents at no 16
Kris Hollington for Unthinkable:The Shocking Scandal of Britain’s Trafficked Children at no 19
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Second day of Sun serialisation for Marina Chapman
03 Apr 2013
Marina Chapman’s incredible memoir, describing her childhood raised by monkeys in the Colombian jungle, is serialised for a second day in The Sun.
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Great review for Math on Trial in Huffington Post
03 Apr 2013
A great review for Math on Trial in Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/abigail-tarttelin/book-review-math-on-trialb2994833.html
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More great coverage for Marina Chapman
02 Apr 2013
Marina Chapman’s The Girl with no Name continues to get huge media coverage, including the following:
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'The Girl With No Name' serialised in Mail on Sunday
01 Apr 2013
Marina Chapman’s astonishing memoir of her wild childhood in the Colombian jungle has been serialised in the Mail on Sunday.
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A dozen UK deals in first quarter of 2013
30 Mar 2013
Andrew Lownie has sold a dozen non-fiction books in the UK in almost as many weeks putting him on course for his target of fifty UK deals in 2013 and the 25th anniversary year of the agency.
