22 Sep 2015
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose latest memoir Girl Alone holds its Number 2 position in the Sunday Times paperback bestsellers this week.
22 Sep 2015
Piu Eatwell’s The Dead Duke is listed in a roundup of “Fall 2015’s Biggest Books” on the Daily Beast:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/21/goodreads-picks-fall-2015-s-biggest-books.html
The book is also included in a roundup of Mystery titles from Better Homes & Garden: “A riveting true crime from yesteryear.”
21 Sep 2015
The sensational air hostess memoir Cabin Fever, by Mandy Smith and Nicola Stow, was once again one of the 50 ‘most-read’ titles on the Amazon Kindle in August.
19 Sep 2015
The Times writes of Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire
The historian Roger Crowley promises: “a long-range epic of navigation, trade and technology, money and crusade, political diplomacy and espionage, sea battles and shipwrecks, endurance, reckless courage and extreme violence”. His pulsating narrative does exactly that.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/books/non-fiction/article4557758.ece
And says of David Lough’s No More Champagne: Churchill and his Money
He is a courteous guide, whose knowledge of the arcane world of investment (and its pitfalls) enables him to explain what went wrong and how Churchill managed to scrape through. The result is a fascinating read, although an unnerving one for anyone who has the tastes and appetites of Mr Toad and the income of Mr Rat.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/books/non-fiction/article4560854.ece
18 Sep 2015
Congratulations to Sonia Oatley and Lynne Barrett-Lee whose Bye Mam, I Love You: A Daughter’s Last Words. A Mother’s Search for Justice. The Shocking True Story of the Murder of Rebecca Aylward now has 439 5* reviews on Amazon
18 Sep 2015
Congratulations to Denise Williams and Julie McCaffrey whose Mummy’s Little Angels: A mother’s agonising story of losing her sons to a murderous father now has over 100 5* star reviews on Amazon.
18 Sep 2015
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose Girl Alone is no 6 and Irene Kelly and Katy Weitz whose Sins of the Mother is no 14 in today’s official UK bestseller list in The Bookseller.
18 Sep 2015
Andrew Lownie will be speaking at the Women’s Fiction Festival in Matera 24th to 27th September taking part in masterclasses and panels on thriller writing. More details here.
17 Sep 2015
Congratulations to Katy Weitz and Irene Kelly whose Sins of the Mothers remains at no.7 in the Sunday Times paperback non-fiction chart.
17 Sep 2015
Andrew Lownie is one of London’s thousand most influential people according to the Evening Standard’s Progress 1000 announced today.
Andrew Lownie - Literary agent
The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency describes itself as a “boutique” operation, representing an astonishing range of books, from Oxford reference dictionaries to Towie offshoots. President of the Union at Cambridge, Lownie worked in publishing before becoming an agent and setting up his own business. He has not only written a biography of John Buchan, but also has created the Biographers’ Club to support first-time biographers.
The full literati list can be found here.