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Andrew Lownie works closely with film agents, film and television producers and scouts to place books as documentaries and dramas or to develop authors' careers as presenters. Further details of film activity are given in the author profiles but here are some highlights:
Page last updated: 2 February 2008.
Recent options
- Guy Bellamy’s The Secret Lemonade Drinker to Dina Appleton
- Damien Lewis’ Bloody Heroes to Abi Bach at Bloody Heroes Ltd
- Damien Lewis’ Operation
Certain Death to Rainy City
- Mark Nicol’s Last
Round to Freedom Films
- Nigel Randall’s The
White Headhunter to Lloyd Levin and Astounding
Movies
- Daniel Tammet’s Born on a Blue Day to Warner Brothers
The following have been optioned but the options have lapsed
- Kris Hollington’s Diamond
Geezers to Ecosse Films
- Nick Pope’s Operation
Lightning Strike to Carnival Films
- Mark Higgitt’s Through
Fire and Water to Darlow Smithson
- Martin Pugh’s The
Pankhursts to ARG
- David Roberts’ Hollow
Crown to Columbia Pictures
The following books lend themselves to drama
- Juliet Barker’s book on the Battle of Agincourt
- The Joyce Cary Estate especially Charley
is my Darling
- Roger Crowley’s epic Constantinople
- Barry Ernest’s The
Girl on the Stairs
- Duncan Falconer’s The
Operative
- Duncan Falconer’s The Protector
- Cathy Glass 's Damaged:
The Heartbreaking True Story of a Forgotten Child
- Marguerite van Geldermalsen’s memoir Married
to a Bedouin
- Sam Halpert’s A
Real Good War
- John Higgs’ I
Surrounded America
- Kris Hollington’s Crack House
- Sarah Ingham’s novels especially Parallel
Turns and Kissing
Frogs
- Damien Lewis’ Cobra Gold
- Jeff Maynard’s Wings of Ice
- Neil McKenna’s Secret
Life of Oscar Wilde
- Mark Nicol’s Condor Blues
- David Morgan’s Falklands War memoir Hostile
Skies
- Adam Ockelford’s book on the musical genius Derek
Paravinci
- Nick Pope’s Operation
Thunder Child
- Andrew Rose’s life of Bernard Spilsbury The
Honorary Pathologist
- Jaime Salazar’s Foreign Legion memoir Legion
of the Lost
- David Stafford’s Spies
Beneath Berlin
- Neil Simpson’s Flying Doctors
- Anna Swan’s memoir Statues
without Shadows
- MJ Trow’s Maxwell crime novels especially Maxwell’s
House
- John Worthen’s Robert Schumann
The following books would make good documentaries
- Bernard Adams’ authorised life of Christabel Bielenberg
- Roger Beam’s account of the SOE Englandspiel disaster
- Anthony Bruce’s Defeat
in Norway
- Leycester’s Coltman’s The
Real Fidel Castro
- David Craig’s Plundering
the Public Sector
- Tom Devine’s The Scottish Nation
- Harold Elletson’s The Intervention
- Peter Forbes’ popular science books How
Long Has This Been Going On and Gecko’s
Foot
- Adrian Gilbert’s POW and Barbed Wire Prisoners
- Timothy Good’s Need
to Know
- Nick Hacking’s Bound by Deception
- Randall Hansen’s Hell’s Fury
- Steven Hastings’ School Smart
- Jonny Jacobsen’s Bad Faith
- Lawrence James’ The
Middle Class
- James Jennings’ The
Hands of Che
- Saul Kelly’s The
Hunt for Zerzura
- Jon Latimer’s Buccaneers
- John Lee’s Winston & Jack
- Simon LeVay’s When
Science Goes Wrong
- James Munson’s The
Smell of the Continent
- Christine Nicholls’ Red
Strangers
- Christopher Othen’s General
Franco’s Volunteer Brigades
- Selwyn Parker’s The Great Crash
- Roland Perry’s Last
of the Cold War Spies
- Sam Pivnik’s From Bendzin to Auschwitz
- Peter Thorold’s Living
Like a Lord, The
Motoring Age and The
London Rich
- Mei Trow’s Vlad
the Impaler
- Tony Spawforth In
Search of Versailles
- David Stafford’s End Game
- Nicholas Storey’s The Miscellany of Men’s Clothes
- Peter Thompson’s Pacific Fury
- Peter Thompson’s The
Battle for Singapore
- Adrian Weale’s SS
- Christian Wolmar’s Fire and Steam
- Christian Wolmar’s history of the London Underground Subterranean Railway
- Simon Young’s Four Celtic Invasions that Changed the World
- Charlotte Zeepvat’s book on Royal clothing
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