News
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Cathy Glass remains in bestseller list
07 Apr 2017
Cathy Glass’s Nobody’s Son remains in the paperback non-fiction list for a sixth week - this time at no 13.
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David McClure in the International Business Times
06 Apr 2017
Another interesting piece from Royal Legacy author David McClure.
The British Royal Family are government pawns in its diplomatic game to make Brexit a success
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Louise Moir BBC Radio interview
06 Apr 2017
Louise Moir will be discussing her powerful memoir Irreplaceable, which tells the story of her husband’s suicide, on BBC Radio Sussex on 10th and 11th April at 2.30pm.
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Lots of publicity for Mapreaders & Multitaskers
06 Apr 2017
Gavin Evans fascinating analysis of gender psychology Mapreaders & Multitaskers has been generating considerable interest since its recent launch, including the following interviews:
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US rights sold in history of the Medici
04 Apr 2017
Pegasus have bought US rights in Mary Hollingsworth’s The Medici, a companion to her history of The Borgias. Head of Zeus publish in the UK later in the year and Polish rights have already been sold.
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Andrew Lownie selected as one of three British Fellows for the Istanbul Literature Festival Fellowship Program 2017
01 Apr 2017
Andrew Lownie has been selected as one of twenty fellows from some 200 applications from 34 countries for the Istanbul Tanpinar Literature Festival Professional Meetings Fellowship Program this year.
The Istanbul Tanpınar Literature Festival holds international events for professionals in its Fellowship Program to encourage collaboration among authors, publishers, editors and translators from both Turkey and abroad. Since its first launch in 2011, ITEF has hosted 124 professionals from 30 countries in Istanbul.
This year, ITEF’s seventh professional publishing fellows program is going to give its 20 participants a chance to learn the Turkish publishing market. There will be presentations about Turkish publishing and networking events will be organized for the fellows, who will also have the chance to meet several prominent Turkish authors and ask about their career in Turkey. Fellows will visit publishing houses and share their experiencess in one on one meetings throughout the three day program. At the same time they will be able to learn about the Turkish literature market from the inside out and will be knowledgable about the works which are available for translation from Turkish into foreign languages.
2017 ITEF Fellows are:
Ágnes Orzóy (Magvető, Hungary) Anders Gronkvist Pedersen (Paraplyen, Denmark) Andrew Lownie (Andrew Lownie Literary Agency, UK) Anna Katarina B. Rodriguez (National Book Development Board, Philippines) Antonina Balashova (Ivan Limbakh, Russia) Charlotte Whiting (Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, UK) Eleni Kekropoulou (Enalios & Oceanos, Greece) Ka Bradley(Granta, UK) Laura Vesanto (Fabriikki Kustannus, Finland) Luke Frostick (The Bosphorus Review of Books, Turkey) Madalina Bucsa (S.C. Humanitas, Romania) Marta Rossich (EDICIONES B, Spain) Maya Feldman (Am-Oved , Israel) Mohamed El-Baaly (Sefsafa, Egypt) Nacera Khiat (SEDIA, Algeria) Nilli Cohen (The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature, Israel) Pablo Alonso Cotrina Cardenas (César Vallejo University Press, Peru) Parisa Ebrahimi (Penguin Random House, USA) Sarah Houtermans (Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, Germany) Zeynep Beler (Freelance Translator, Turkey)
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Eating the Elephant: Do you really know the man you married? reaches no 8
01 Apr 2017
Congratulations to Alice Wells whose memoir of discovering her husband is a paedophile , Eating the Elephant: Do you really know the man you married?, has reached no 8 on Amazon after appearances on the Jeremy Vine Show and Radio 5. The book has 94 Amazon 5* reviews.
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New Paul Anthony Jones word book to Elliott & Thompson
29 Mar 2017
Elliott & Thompson have bought UK rights in Paul Anthony Jones’s A Word a Day: A Yearbook of 365 Obscure Words which brings together 365 long-forgotten and long-overlooked words, each neatly and cleverly assigned to a different day of the year.
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Fifth week in top ten for Cathy Glass
29 Mar 2017
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose fostering memoir Nobody’s Son remains in the top ten paperback non-fiction list for a fifth week - this week no 9.
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Andrew Lownie remains top-selling UK non-fiction agent
28 Mar 2017
According to publishersmarketplace, Andrew Lownie is
1 in International rights: UK Non-fiction 1 in Non-fiction: Biography worldwide 2 in Non-fiction: History/Politics/Current Affairs worldwideHe is no 5 top-selling agent worldwide across all categories with 37 announced deals over the last twelve months.
