andrew lownie literary agency

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  • Shackleton book to History Press

    26 Jul 2026

    The History Press have bought World English rights in Sarah Bax Horton’s Shackleton’s Stowaway: The Survival Story of Perce Blackborow and the Endurance crew.

  • Book on Britain's debts to Swift

    26 Jul 2026

    Swift Press have bought World English rights in Angus Hanton’s timely Bankrupt State: the conspiracy to hide Britain’s debts

  • Revisionist book on Chinese American relations to One World

    26 Jul 2026

    One World have bought world rights in Tim Hames’s War or Peace?: The United States and China, 2026–2049, a look at Chinese-American relations.

  • Nazi Ghost Train remains a bestseller

    25 Jul 2026

    Congratulations to Greg Lewis whose Nazi Ghost Train was number 4 in the Bookseller’s History & Military chart for total sales for the UK edition for weeks 1-27, 2026.

  • Yale buy The Last King of Jerusalem

    25 Jul 2026

    Yale have bought world rights in Tom Smith’s The Last King of Jerusalem: Baldwin IV and the Fall of Jerusalem

  • Author Hugh Brazier dies

    13 Jul 2026

    The agency is sad to announce that author Hugh Brazier, author of The Book of 365, has died. Our condolences to his family.

  • Sean McMeekin wins Hayek Book Prize.

    13 Jul 2026

    Congratulations to Sean McMeekin whose To Overthrow the World was the winner of the 2026 Hayek Book Prize.

  • Nazi Ghost Train makes top ten

    13 Jul 2026

    Congratulations to Greg Lewis who latest book Nazi Ghost Train reached no 8 in the Sunday Times bestseller list.

  • A Spy in the Family wins True Crime Book Of The Year

    30 Jun 2026

    Congratulations to David Gardner and Paul Henderson whose A Spy in the Family has won this year’s True Crime Book Of The Year . The judges stressed how it was “steeped in history and delivered in a breathtakingly gripping way.” The book was also shortlisted for Best Audiobook.

  • Recent translation sales

    26 Aug 2025

    Chinese rights in Michael Banks’ s Physics Around the Clock: Adventures in the Science of Everyday Living.

    Arabic rights in Simon Berthon’s Warlords: An Extraordinary Re-creation of World War II through the Eyes and Minds of Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin.

    Arabic rights in Nicholas Best’s Five Days That Shocked The World: An Oral History of Europe at the End of World War Two.

    Arabic rights in Julia Boyd’s The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The Life of the First Woman Physician.

    Romanian rights in Roger Crowley’s Spice: The sixteenth century contest that shaped the modern world.

    Dutch rights in A Spy in the Family by David Gardner and Paul Henderson.

    Mexican rights in Sarah Bax Horton’s One-Armed Jack: Uncovering the Real Jack the Ripper.

    Arabic rights in Andrew Lownie’s The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves.

    Polish rights in Andrew Lownie’s Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York.

    Turkish rights in Joanna Moncrieff’s Chemically Imbalanced: the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth.

    Portuguese rights in Geoff Roberts’s Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books.