News

  • Monica Porter in Evening Standard

    04 Mar 2014

    Monica Porter’s Raven: My Year of Dating Dangerously was featured in Sam Leith’s column in the Evening Standard

    http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/sam-leith-a-seedy-fringe-like-pie-was-a-sign-of-its-times-9165387.html

  • Monica Porter makes front page news a second day running

    03 Mar 2014

    Following the first week of serial in yesterdays Mail on Sunday, Monica Porter’s memoir Raven: My Year of Dating Dangerously is a front page feature in today’s Daily Mail

  • Agency ranked 5th in world

    03 Mar 2014

    With the announcement today of several more deals on Publishers Marketplace, Andrew Lownie’s position as the top selling agent in the world has been consolidated. He now has 60 recorded deals with his nearest rival at 44. The agency is ranked fifth in the world in terms of books sold.

  • Serial of Monica Porter's Raven makes news worldwide

    02 Mar 2014

    The first week of the Mail on Sunday’s serial of Monica Porter’s memoir Raven: My Year of Dating Dangerously made front page news and has generated worldwide interest in other rights

  • Terrific early reviews for Jessie Childs' God's Traitors

    01 Mar 2014

    “ Childs has employed her impressive research skills and storytelling verve to bring that past vividly to life”. Daily Telegraph

    “This vivid, minutely researched and brilliantly original history is a much-needed look at the dark side of the Elizabethan age.” Dan Jones Sunday Times

    “Jessie Childs, author of an excellent biography of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, has hit on the inspired idea of exploring them through the recusant Vaux family – a tale of spies and skulduggery, of casuistry and unshakable belief, of torture, martyrdom, and the ferocious collision and confusion of politics and religion… Childs writes in a breezy, engaging style, of a period in English history too often clogged by breathy romance or earnest sanctimony…. God’s Traitors is scholarly, absorbing, even-handed and relevant.” Ben McIntyre, The Times

  • Andrew Lownie remains the top selling agent in the world

    01 Mar 2014

    According to Publishers Marketplace , Andrew Lownie remains the top selling agent in the world across all categories with 55 recorded US & UK deals over the last six months His nearest rival has 44 deals. The agency is ranked seventh worldwide behind large agencies such as Trident, Writers House and William Morris.

    In the category UK Non-fiction, he is also top with 57 deals over twelve months with the no 2 agent at 10 deals . The agency is top with the Viney Agency second at 12 deals.

    Lownie is also top worldwide in biography .

    In history/politics/current affairs, the agency is joint second worldwide with William Morris and two deals behind Trident Media Group.

  • Andrew Lownie's upcoming events

    27 Feb 2014

    Andrew will be speaking at the London Author Fair on Friday 28th February:
    Noon. Panel - Agents of Change: the Evolution of the Literary Agent
    2pm. Pitch Up
    5.30pm. The Big Publishing Brain Storm: how can we get to where we want to be in 2020?

    Then on Monday, Andrew will be speaking at the Biographers Club.

  • New Daisy de Villeneuve title to Hardie Grant

    26 Feb 2014

    Hardie Grant have bought Daisy de Villeneuve’s new collection of whimsical illustrated books I Should Have Said .

  • Orion buys Eat Your Way To Lower Cholesterol

    26 Feb 2014

    Andrew Lownie has sold Eat Your Way To Lower Cholesterol: Delicious Recipes to Reduce Your Cholesterol by up to 20% in Under Three Months..., ,based on one of the most popular diet plans produced by the Mail on Sunday , and co-written by the agency’s author Dr Laura Corr, to Orion Books.

  • Clare Mulley's The Women Who Flew for Hitler to Macmillan and St Martin's Press

    26 Feb 2014

    Clare Mulley’s new book The Women Who Flew for Hitler: Hanna Reitsch and Melitta von Stauffenberg, a joint biography of Nazi Germany’s most highly honoured female test-pilots, has been sold to Macmillan in the UK and St Martin’s Press in the US. This book searches for the truth about these two women, whose lives were so intertwined, asking why they were so successful, how they came to be so skilled and how they felt about serving Hitler, raising important questions around women’s willing denial and coercion in the Third Reich.