About the Agency
The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency Ltd, founded in 1988, is now one of the UK's leading boutique literary agencies with some two hundred non-fiction and fiction authors and is actively building its fiction list through new agent David Haviland. 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.
Books represented have included: The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English: The Oxford Classical Dictionary; The Penguin Companion to the European Union; Norma Major's history of Chequers; the memoirs of Sir John Mills, Alan Whicker, Gloria Hunniford, David Hasselhoff, Emily Lloyd, Kerry Katona and Patrick MacNee; the best-selling fostering series by Cathy Glass and Casey Watson; Sam Faiers’ Living Life the Essex Way; Daniel Tammet’s international best-seller Born on a Blue Day; Laurence Gardner’s The Magdalene Legacy and The Shadow of Solomon, the literary estates of Joyce Cary and Julian MacLaren-Ross; the historians Juliet Barker, Roger Crowley, Tom Devine, Robert Hutchinson, Sean McMeekin, Linda Porter, Geoff Roberts ,Desmond Seward, David Stafford and Christian Wolmar; the wine writer Michael Schuster; crime writers, such as Mei Trow and David Roberts, and thriller writers such as Duncan Falconer.
Featured Author: Patrick Garrett
Patrick Garrett was born in London, grew up in Scotland, but has lived in Eastern Europe and Asia since the 1990s.He began his working life as a television editor in Glasgow. After a stint doing TV commercials in Hamburg, during the turbulent Yeltsin years he moved to Moscow to work in television news for a range of international broadcasters including BBC, ITN, NBC, and CBS. He reported news events across the entire former Soviet Union, including numerous assignments to cover the vicious Chechen Wars in the mid 1990's.He moved to Hong Kong in 1997 to observe its Handover of Sovereignty. Ho...
Articles and Advices
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The Future of Agenting
Apr 13 2013 |
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Andrew Lownie gives his thoughts on the future of agenting. He will be discussing the issue at the London Book Fair on Tuesday. The publishing landscape is rapidly changing with t... -
Ghostly Reflections
Mar 03 2013 |
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Sixteen of the agency’s ghost writers share their five tips on how they work with their subjects and what they believe is needed to ghost a successful book. Mary Alexander, ghostwriter... -
Some Tips on Approaching an Agent
Jan 26 2013 |
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Andrew Lownie offers some advice on how best to present yourself to an agent. Authors are often angry, frustrated or shocked by the responses or lack of responses from agents and it mi...
Featured Book: Decent Proposal
Few life stories impart as much wisdom as Decent Proposal That’s because the revealing and true stories are all taken from the life of one of the nation’s premier relationship experts, Louise Van Der Velde. From miraculous healings, to nights in a multimillion-dollar palace in Dubai, to the adrenaline of a police car chase, the stories alone are thoroughly spell-binding. And if you haven’t already got one, we suggest you have a fainting couch at the ready, as Louise shares some sacred and passionate encounters from her own sex life that are sure to take your breath...
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