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: Neil Simpson
Neil Simpson is a Sunday Times Top Ten best-selling biographer and one of Britain's most prolific ghost-writers and non-fiction authors. In recent years he has co-written autobiographies with succesful business people, entertainers, reality television stars, sports stars, chefs and musicians - as well as a host of 'ordinary' people who have lived extraordinary lives. Recent best-selling biographies include the lives of Paul O'Grady, Gordon Ramsay and the late Jade Goody as well as Lorraine Kelly, Billie Piper and Jonathan Ross. He also enjoys ghosting fiction, writing...
Articles and Advices
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Blogging
Jul 29 2010 |
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Drawing on his own experience, Nicholas Storey shows how blogging can substantially increase book sales. Reading David Craig’s promotion of Google AdWords, in his article dated 22nd Ju... -
Another Agency Week
Jul 12 2010 |
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Andrew Lownie looks back on a recent 'typical' week. MONDAY Overnight submissions include: a biography of a minor Tudor courtier – no profile and too small; a memoir of driving aro... -
Using Google Adwords to sell more books
Jun 22 2010 |
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David Craig explains how Google Adwords can help sales and publicity. With so many books being published and with so few having a decent PR budget, it can be a struggle keeping sales o...
Featured Book: Empire of Crime: The dark underbelly of the British Empire
Sometimes the best intentions can have the worst results. In 1905, British Liberal reformers radically reduced the export of Indian opium to China. As a result, the world price of opium soared to a new high and a century of high-earning drug smuggling began. The age of narcotics gang lords—which we still live in today—can be said to date from this decision. Criminal producers in other countries, including Japan, exploited the prohibition and drug gang wars broke out across South-East Asia. It was the greatest gift to organised crime given by the well-meaning people of the...