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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.
Recent bestsellers have included Cathy Glass’s misery memoir Damaged, Juliet Barker’s narrative history Agincourt , Tom Devine’s The Scottish Nation: 1700-2007, Daniel Tammet’s memoir Born on a Blue Day, Damien Lewis’s military adventure Operation Certain Death , Laurence Gardner’s The Magdalene Legacy and The Shadow of Solomon, David Hasselhoff’s autobiography Making Waves and Duncan Falconer’s thrillers The Hijack, The Hostage and The Protector.
All authors are individually handled by Andrew Lownie and the agency prides itself on its personal and efficient service. Many authors have been with Andrew since their first book, though a speciality is to represent authors in mid-career and take them to a new level of income and recognition. In all cases the aim is to establish a life-time's business relationship and to promote all aspects of an author's writing career, even between book contracts.
about the agency
Most
literary agents have previously worked in publishing in editorial or
rights but they come from all backgrounds. I have been a bookseller,
journalist and publisher and am a published author. Every agent is
different but they should love books and read widely, have good
contacts to find and then sell authors, have the editorial skills to be
able to shape proposals for the market, know what editors are looking
for, be able to pitch books to editors and win the confidence of their
authors.
Like many of my colleagues I became an agent by chance. As President of the Cambridge Union I met John Le Carre and his agent at a reading. They were on the look out for a junior agent and I was interested in going into publishing. After a short period as a graduate trainee with a publishing house and as a freelance journalist I became an agent aged 23, the youngest in the business.
Since then I have helped many hundreds of writers find book contracts and a selection of these deals are listed on this site. I am always happy to discuss ideas with any established or aspiring writer; feel free to send me an email or call my office number.
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