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Andrew Lownie remains top-selling non-fiction agent in world
09 Apr 2018
Andrew Lownie remains the top-selling non-fiction agent in the world and second top-selling agent overall according to publishersmarketplace. He is also no 1 in UK and biography worldwide
1 in International rights: UK Non-fiction 1 in Non-fiction: Biography 2 in AgentsJill Marsal (Marsal Lyon Literary Agency) Top category: Fiction: Mystery/Crime (10) 36 deals
Andrew Lownie (Andrew Lownie Literary Agency | UNITED KINGDOM) Top category: International rights: UK Non-fiction (21) 31 deals
Allison Hellegers (Rights People | UNITED KINGDOM) Top category: International rights: Children’s (14) 23 deals
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Historical novel sold to Simon & Schuster
09 Apr 2018
Leslie Howard’s powerful historical saga The Brideship Wife has been bought by Simon & Schuster Canada.The book tells the story of one woman’s quest for independence and adventure in the modern world of 1862, from the parlours of Victorian England to the lawless gold fields of British Columbia.
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'Up Lit' novel sold to Duckworth
09 Apr 2018
C. M. Taylor’s remarkable ‘Up Lit’ novel Staying On, a bittersweet comedy-drama set amongst the Brexit-threatened English expats of Spain, has been sold to Duckworth Overlook, who have acquired rights for the UK, Europe and Commonwealth excluding Canada.
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An interview with David Haviland
09 Apr 2018
The agency’s fiction agent David Haviland has given an interesting interview to the Serial Writer blog, discussing writing, author submissions, and Rod Stewart.
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Cathy Glass remains in top ten.
04 Apr 2018
Cathy Glass’s A Long Way From Home remains in the bestseller lists - this week at no 9.
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US Nazi Spy Ring title to Georgetown University Press
04 Apr 2018
US rights in Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’s American Detective: Leon Turrou and the Exposure of the Nazi Spy Ring in America have been bought by Georgetown University Press.
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One of the strangest episodes in polar history sold to Pegasus
04 Apr 2018
World English rights in Jeff Maynard’s Antarctica’s Lost Aviator: An Eccentric American’s Quest to Explore the Last Frontier on Earth have been bought by Pegasus.
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Princes of the Renaissance to Head of Zeus
04 Apr 2018
Head of Zeus have bought world rights in Mary Hollingsworth’s Princes of the Renaissance.
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The M Room: Secret Listeners who Bugged the Nazis to Yale
04 Apr 2018
Yale have bought World English rights in Helen Fry’s The M Room: Secret Listeners who Bugged the Nazis
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Recent Foreign Rights sales
04 Apr 2018
Romanian rights in Nicholas Best’s The Greatest Day in History: 11 November 1918.
Chinese rights in Julia Boyd’s Travellers in the Third Reich.
Japanese rights in Danny Orbach’s Curse on this Country.
Hungarian rights in Damiel Tammet’s Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers.
