The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency Ltd, founded in 1988, is one of the UK's leading boutique literary agencies with some two hundred non-fiction authors.
It prides itself on its personal attention to its clients and specialises both in launching new writers and taking established writers to a new level of recognition.
According to Publishers Marketplace, Andrew Lownie has regularly been the top selling agent in the world . He has also three times been shortlisted for ‘Agent of the Year’ at the British Bookseller Awards.
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The Wrong Order of Things: Children are not supposed to die
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