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.
15 Sep 2015
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose new memoir, Girl Alone, has charted at Number 2 in the Sunday Times paperback bestsellers charts this week.
15 Sep 2015
Andrew Lownie’s new biography of Guy Burgess, Stalin’s Englishman, has been generating huge media interest, including the following piece in the Telegraph.
15 Sep 2015
An interview with Mandy Smith, co-author of Cabin Fever can be found at http://newinbooks.com/interview-with-mandy-smith-author-of-cabin-fever/
13 Sep 2015
The Sunday Times runs today with a story from Stalin’s Englishman about how close Guy Burgess was to Winston’s Churchill’s niece Clarissa Churchill http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/People/article1606355.ece The Times diary has reported the book’s launch at Hatchards http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article4554790.ece The Independent on Sunday review concludes ’ ‘Not every question has been answered, but most have, and those that remain probably never will be.’
13 Sep 2015
Congratulations to Irene Kelly and Katy Weitz whose Sins of the Mother remains in the Sunday Times bestseller list - this week at no 5.
13 Sep 2015
The Sunday Times calls Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire ‘ …magnificently rip-roaring history of Portugal’s rise to world empire…Conquerors is a gloriously entertaining read…it reads like an epic, bursting with colour and excitement. Unlike many academics who have written about the age of European expansion, Crowley never wastes a syllable on post-colonial gobbledegook, but just cracks on with the action…Crowley makes a powerful case that it was the Portuguese, not the Spanish (and still less the British), who built the world’s first truly global empire…this prodigiously entertaining book.. http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/books/non_fiction/article1604491.ece
12 Sep 2015
A lovely first Amazon review ‘The book arrived today and I haven’t been able to put it down. Brilliantly crafted with lots of suspense, the many unknowns and unanswered questions about Guy Burgess have finally been revealed in Andrew Lownie’s ground-breaking biography. A must read for everyone who loves a damn good biography but also for readers following general twentieth century history. This colourful and honest portrayal of Burgess makes an important contribution to the public’s enduring fascination with the Cambridge spies and traitors.’