About the Agency
The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency Ltd, founded in 1988, is now one of the UK's leading non-fiction literary agencies with a special emphasis on history and biography. Books represented have included The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, The Oxford Classical Dictionary, Norma Major's history of Chequers and the memoirs of Sir John Mills, Alan Whicker, Gloria Hunniford and Patrick MacNee.
Featured Author: David Bullock
David Bullock (35) was born and raised in Northampton. An actor for more than a decade, he has been cast in a number of roles including a BBC production of Friends and Crocodiles (2005), directed by Stephen Poliakoff. David has also acted in a number of plays, including productions at The Royal Theatre, Northampton.
Since 2007 he has been working as a Police Community Support Officer and is currently based in Windsor, where he works for Thames Valley Police. David is a keen writer and historian and in 2011 was a finalist in Readings Festival of Crime Writing, in which bestselling author ...
Articles and Advices
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Salutations
Jan 15 2012 |
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Andrew Lownie continues his series of how recent submissions have addressed him. Hello dear Andrew, Dear Andrew Lownie and/or Associates, Hi Lonnie, Agent-In-Chief; Dear ... -
What Editors Want 2012
Jan 10 2012 |
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Twenty four editors have kindly explained what they are looking for this year giving a fascinating insight into the commissioning mind. Hugh Andrew, Managing DIrector, Birlinn ... -
What the Dickens...
Dec 25 2011 |
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Ah, coincidence... from Dickens to Didion it's the meat and drink of the writer's art. Even readers know that. But what they don't know - and we do - is just how big a role it plays befor...
Featured Book: The Plantagenets
Our longest reigning dynasty, the Plantagenets are among the most important in European history, on a par with Hohenstauffen and Habsburgs, with Valois and Bourbons. They took their name from an ancestor's habit of wearing a sprig of bloom flower in his cap although they did not use it as such until 1460. Their contribution to our history cannot be exaggerated. They saved England's unity, unique in medieval Europe. Rebuilt by Henry II after the chaos left by Stephen, had his sons's revolt succeeded, the kingdom would have fallen apart, as it almost did at the end of John's reign when the b...