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PW reviews West Point ’41
20 Apr 2014
There’s a good review for West Point ’41: The Class That Went to War and Shaped America, by Anne Kazel-Wilcox and PJ Wilcox in the latest Publishers Weekly.
‘It’s an enjoyable and fresh contribution to documenting the experiences of America’s “Greatest Generation.”’
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Two agency authors contribute to May's BBC History magazine
20 Apr 2014
Two agency authors contribute articles to the May edition of BBC History Magazine:
Linda Porter writes about ‘The Forgotten Tudor’, Margaret sister of Henry VIII.
Jessie Childs has the cover story with ‘Elizabeth I’s war with England’s Catholics’.
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Nick Pope serialised in the Daily Mail
19 Apr 2014
Nick Pope’s fascinating new book Encounter in Rendlesham Forest, released this weekend by Thistle Publishing, is serialised in today’s Daily Mail.
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Joff Sharpe on Special Air Service
19 Apr 2014
‘After Piers Morgan hired me as HR Director, he found out that I had been in the SAS, and he thought it was pretty hilarious. Who can blame him?…’
Special Air Service - what can HR learn from the elite British Army regiment?
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Rachel Kelly serialised in The Times
19 Apr 2014
Rachel Kelly’s Black Rainbow is serialised in the Times Magazine today, alongside an interview with the author.
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Agent of the Year profiles
18 Apr 2014
The nominees for Literary Agent of the Year, including Andrew Lownie, are profiled in this week’s Bookseller.
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Two agency titles in best seller lists
15 Apr 2014
Congratulations to Cathy Glass whose Daddy’s Little Princess is no 4 and Shannon Kyle, the ghost on Stolen Voices, at no 14 in the paperback non-fiction list this week.
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Andrew Lownie condemns publishing 'land grab'
15 Apr 2014
With the London Book Fair set to open tomorrow (8th April), agents have told The Bookseller there has been a “land grab”, with some major publishers accused of refusing to publish e-books where contracts state an author royalty rate of more than 25%. The Society of Authors (SoA) has also said it is seeing “unfair” practices from publishers. But publishers denied the claims, emphasising they have strong relationships with agents and always act in the best interests of authors.
Andrew Lownie, of the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency, said he was “increasingly concerned about the ‘bullying’ approach of some major publishers”. “An area of concern is publishers trying to unilaterally impose a 25% rate on contracts—clearly stated in the contract to be mutually agreed—arguing that that’s the ‘standard’ rate and simply uploading the books without agreement,” he added.
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Monica Porter's memoir sold to Head of Zeus
15 Apr 2014
UK rights in Monica Porter’s memoir, Raven: My Year of Dating Dangerously, originally published by Thistle, have been bought by Head of Zeus.
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More terrific reviews for Jessie Childs's God's Traitors
15 Apr 2014
In the quality of her research and sensitive handling of issues that remain raw to this day, Jessie Childs succeeds in evoking ‘the lived experience of anti-Catholicism’ as few have done before…Childs’s language is lively and inventive…By picturing Elizabethan recusants in all their complexity, Jessie Childs has enabled them to speak for themselves at last. John Cooper, Literary Review
Vivid but measured…never has the actual experience of the recusants been rendered with such a wealth of searing detail…richly packed, absorbing…It is a parade of extraordinary characters and a banquet of Elizabethan and Jacobean prose. Simon Callow, The Guardian (Book of the Week)
Splendid book…Childs does a splendid job of explaining this unenviable situation and of putting it in the wider context of Elizabethan Catholic life. There are many fruitful digressions. Jonathan Wright, The Tablet
