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: Nicholas Best
Nicholas Best grew up in Kenya, of Anglo-Irish origin, and was educated there, in England, and at Trinity College, Dublin. He served a spell in Britain’s Grenadier Guards, during which he was airlifted to Belize to prevent its invasion by Guatemalan tanks - an experience that gave him his first short story (in Penthouse) and a satirical novel Where were you at Waterloo? Thereafter he worked in London as a financial journalist before becoming a full time writer.
He is the author of Happy Valley: the Story of the English in Kenya, Tennis and the Masai (a comic novel later seri...
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 three 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: Maths on Trial
Maths on Trial covers ten criminal cases in each of which, at a crucial point, a mathematical mistake played a significant role. Probability and statistics are used for multiple purposes in the world of criminality: identification, DNA analysis, database trawling, proving discrimination, making handwriting comparisons, and even as a tool of last resort in the very detection of the act of murder. Each time this occurs, there is a risk of error, and each such error carries the risk of a serious miscarriage of justice. The ten cases are ordered according to the difficulty of the maths they ...