TV and Film

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.

Recent Options

• Terror Cops written by Kris Hollington to Mammoth
• Red One: A Bomb Disposal Expert on the Front Line written by Kevin Ivison to BBC
• In the Key of Genius: The Extraordinary Life of Derek Paravicini written by Adam Ockelford to United Peaceworks
• Holiday SOS written by Ben MacFarlane to Freemantle
• Dyatlov Pass written by Alan Baker to Simon Fellows
• Crack House written by Kris Hollington to Start Films
• Broken Youth written by Karen Woods to Shadowhawk
• Agincourt written by Juliet Barker to Cineman Films

The following have been optioned but the options have lapsed

• The Secret Lemonade Drinker written by Guy Bellamy to Dina Appleton
• Married to a Bedouin written by Marguerite van Geldermalsen to Susie Wells
• Hollow Crown written by David Roberts to Columbia Pictures
• Diamond Geezers written by Kris Hollington to Ecosse Films
• Agincourt written by Juliet Barker to Independent Film Company

The following books lend themselves to drama

• Zulu Rising written by Ian Knight
• You Can't Park There!: The Highs and Lows of an Air Ambulance Doctor written by Tony Bleetman
• Witch Hammer written by Mei Trow
• William & Kate: a modern love story written by Simon Vigar
• Wild Times: Surviving drugs, depression and disco. written by Sinitta Malone
• Where is my Father?: one laboratory’s quest to perfect DNA identification written by Christian Jennings
• Unhappy Hooker: My Crap Adventures in the Sex Trade written by Jennifer May
• Trading Loyalties written by Douglas Wight
• Today I'm Alice written by Alice Jamieson
• To Live with Leopards: The Unique Relationship Between a Man and Two Super Predators written by Fransje van Riel
• The “Englandspiel” Spy Scandal written by Roger Beam
• The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb written by Clare Mulley
• The White Headhunter: The Story of a 19-Century Sailor Who Survived a South Seas Heart of Darkness written by Nigel Randell Evans
• The Tax Exile written by Guy Bellamy
• The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville written by Clare Mulley
• The Sinner's Congregation written by Guy Bellamy
• The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde written by Neil McKenna
• The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Münzenberg, Moscow’s Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West, 1917-1940 written by Sean McMeekin
• The Protector written by Duncan Falconer
• The Operative written by Duncan Falconer
• The Nudists written by Guy Bellamy
• The Night The Angels Came written by Cathy Glass
• The Mystery of Lewis Carroll: A Biographical Investigation written by Jenny Woolf
• The Mysterious Lives of Moura Budberg written by Deborah McDonald
• The Moonlight written by Joyce Cary
• The Mercenary written by Duncan Falconer
• The Man Who Would Be Jack written by David Bullock
• The Man Who Won written by Guy Bellamy
• The Lighthouse Keeper written by Alan Baker
• The Interceptor written by Cameron Addicott
• The Horse's Mouth written by Joyce Cary
• The Holiday written by Guy Bellamy
• The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of the Girl Raised by Monkeys written by Marina Chapman
• The Crime Factory written by Andy Jennings
• The Comedy Hotel written by Guy Bellamy
• The Clegg Coup written by Jasper Gerard
• The Class of ’41: The Odyssey of West Point Leadership that Shaped a Century & Beyond written by Anne Kazel-Wilcox
• The Class of ’41: The Odyssey of West Point Leadership that Shaped a Century & Beyond written by P J Wilcox
• The Brontës written by Juliet Barker
• The Boy No one Loved: A heartbreaking true story of Abuse, Abandonment and Betrayal written by Casey Watson
• The Baby Laundry for Unmarried Mothers written by Lynne Barrett-Lee
• Terror Cops written by Kris Hollington
• Teabags and Tears written by Karen Woods
• Task Force Helmand written by Doug Beattie
• Sweet Sorrow written by David Roberts
• Spies Beneath Berlin written by David Stafford
• Spanish Armada written by Robert Hutchinson
• Size Matters Not written by Warwick A. Davis
• Sisters in Arms written by Susan Ottaway
• Silent Court written by Mei Trow
• Shanghai Fury written by Peter Thompson
• Scorpions’ Nest written by Mei Trow
• Sailing the Dream written by Michael Perham
• Run Mummy, Run! written by Cathy Glass
• Robert Schumann written by John Worthen
• Red One: A Bomb Disposal Expert on the Front Line written by Kevin Ivison
• Rasputin: The Untold Story written by Joseph Fuhrmann
• Pirate Hunter written by Carl 'Rocky' Mason
• Pirate written by Duncan Falconer
• Out of the Fire written by Carol Rowntree
• Operation Damocles written by Roger Howard
• Of Love and Hunger: With an introduction by D.J. Taylor written by Julian Maclaren-Ross
• Northern Girls Love Gravy written by Karen Woods
• My Dad’s A Policeman written by Cathy Glass
• Murder in Montague Place written by Martyn Beardsley
• Mummy Told Me Not To Tell written by Cathy Glass
• Moll: the life and true times of Moll Flanders. written by Sian Rees
• Maxwell's Island written by Mei Trow
• Maxwell's House written by Mei Trow
• Maxwell's Crossing written by Mei Trow
• Lucky Luciano: The Real and the Fake Gangster written by Tim Newark
• Lost Without My Daughter written by Sayed Mahmoody
• Londongrad: From Russia with Cash written by Stewart Lansley
• Little Victim written by Kris Hollington
• Letters to My Daughters, written by Nadene Ghouri
• July 1914: Countdown to War written by Sean McMeekin
• James Klugmann and the Hopes and Fears of British Communism. written by Geoff Andrews
• In the Midday Sun written by Guy Bellamy
• In the Key of Genius: The Extraordinary Life of Derek Paravicini written by Adam Ockelford
• I Miss Mummy written by Cathy Glass
• I Have a Complaint to Make written by Guy Bellamy
• I Did Tell, I Did written by Cassie Harte
• Hurting Too Much: Shocking stories from the frontline of child protection written by Kris Hollington
• Hollywood Love Junkie: Confessions of a B movie actress written by Helen Croydon
• Holiday SOS written by Ben MacFarlane
• Hitler’s Gangster: The Extraordinary Crimes of Alfred Naujocks written by Tim Newark
• Hidden: The Heartbreaking True Story of an ‘Invisible’ Boy written by Cathy Glass
• Haunted written by Lynne Barrett-Lee
• Haunted written by Emily Franklyn
• Green-Eyed Boys written by Adrian Weale
• Giant George written by Lynne Barrett-Lee
• From Starnash with Love written by Vicky Radtke
• Five Days That Shook The World: An Oral History of Europe at the End of World War Two written by Nicholas Best
• Fanny & Stella written by Neil McKenna
• Dying for Approval written by Catherine Kerr-Phillips
• Dyatlov Pass written by Alan Baker
• Dunkirk: The Men They Left Behind written by Sean Longden
• Ducking and Diving: The Life and Times Of An Essex Bad Girl written by Deborah Crewe
• Ducking and Diving: The Life and Times Of An Essex Bad Girl written by Tracy Mackness
• Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance after July 20, 1944 written by Randall Hansen
• Devilfish: The life and times of a poker legend written by Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott
• Dear Mr Bigelow written by Frances Woodsford
• Dark Entry written by Mei Trow
• Damaged: The Heartbreaking True Story of a Broken Child written by Cathy Glass
• Cut written by Cathy Glass
• Crying for Help: The Shocking True Story of a Damaged Girl with a Dark Past written by Casey Watson
• Cruise Ship SOS written by Ben MacFarlane
• Crown of Thistles: The fatal inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots written by Linda Porter
• Crossing Antarctica: The untold story of the ill-fated Ellsworth Trans-Antarctic Expedition written by Jeff Maynard
• Crack House written by Kris Hollington
• Constantinople: The Last Great Siege written by Roger Crowley
• Condor Blues written by Mark Nicol
• City of Fortune: How Venice won and lost a naval empire written by Roger Crowley
• City Girl written by Barbara Stcherbatcheff
• Charley is My Darling written by Joyce Cary
• Charles Masson: The Indiana Jones of Afghanistan written by Bijan Omrani
• Can we cook the dwarf?: Confessions of a reluctant lad’s mag editor written by Paul Merrill
• Boy From The Sky written by Nigel Randell Evans
• Born on a Blue Day: A Memoir of Asperger's and An Extraordinary Mind written by Daniel Tammet
• Black Tears written by Karen Woods
• Bercow:: Rowdy Living in the Tory Party written by Bobby Friedman
• Bagheads written by Karen Woods
• Baby X written by Kris Hollington
• Assassin written by Duncan Falconer
• Another Forgotten Child written by Cathy Glass
• An Ordinary Soldier written by Doug Beattie
• Amy Winehouse: The Untold Story written by Chloe Govan
• All Fired Up: Tales of a Country Fireman written by Malcolm Castle
• Agincourt written by Juliet Barker
• A Year in Suburbia written by Guy Bellamy
• A Village Called Sin written by Guy Bellamy
• A Baby's Cry written by Cathy Glass
• What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex written by Sheridan Simove
• Sugar Daddy Diaries: When a Fantasy Became an Obsession written by Helen Croydon
• Little Prisoners: A tragic story of two siblings trapped in a world of suffering and abuse written by Casey Watson
• Around the Coast in Eighty Waves written by Jonathan Bennett

The following books would make good documentaries

• Zulu Rising written by Ian Knight
• You Can't Park There!: The Highs and Lows of an Air Ambulance Doctor written by Tony Bleetman
• Would You Buy That? written by David Craig
• William & Kate: a modern love story written by Simon Vigar
• Wild Times: Surviving drugs, depression and disco. written by Sinitta Malone
• Where is my Father?: one laboratory’s quest to perfect DNA identification written by Christian Jennings
• When Science Goes Wrong written by Simon LeVay
• What on Earth Evolved written by Christopher Lloyd
• What became of the Cotswold Olimpicks? written by David Haviland
• Vlad the Impaler written by Mei Trow
• Versailles: A Biography of A Palace written by Tony Spawforth
• Troubles with my Aunt written by Patrick Garrett
• Trans-Siberian railway written by Christian Wolmar
• Trading Loyalties written by Douglas Wight
• To Live with Leopards: The Unique Relationship Between a Man and Two Super Predators written by Fransje van Riel
• Time-Capsule Paris written by Ian Littlewood
• The “Englandspiel” Spy Scandal written by Roger Beam
• The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb written by Clare Mulley
• The Ultimate Man Diet written by Jimmy Lee Shreeve
• The Story of Buildings written by Patrick Dillon
• The Story of Britain written by Patrick Dillon
• The SS: A New History written by Adrian Weale
• The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville written by Clare Mulley
• The Soldier: : A History of Courage, Sacrifice and Brotherhood written by Darren Moore
• The Smell of the Continent: British Travellers in Europe 1814-1914 written by Richard Mullen
• The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde written by Neil McKenna
• The Scottish Nation: 1700-2000 written by Tom Devine
• The Russian Origins of the First World War. written by Sean McMeekin
• The Rossettis In Wonderland : A Victorian Family History written by Dinah Roe
• The Queen Wore Lilac written by Charlotte Zeepvat
• The Plantagenets written by Desmond Seward
• The Outcasts written by Katharine Quarmby
• The Mystery of Lewis Carroll: A Biographical Investigation written by Jenny Woolf
• The Mysterious Lives of Moura Budberg written by Deborah McDonald
• The Much-Lamented Death of Madam Geneva written by Patrick Dillon
• The Milk of Human Conquest written by Peter Forbes
• The Medici Chronicles written by Mary Hollingsworth
• The Man Who Would Be Jack written by David Bullock
• The Hunt for Zerzura: The Lost Oasis and the Desert War written by Saul Kelly
• The Great Crash written by Selwyn Parker
• The Golden Warrior: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia written by Lawrence James
• The Girl With No Name: The Incredible True Story of the Girl Raised by Monkeys written by Marina Chapman
• The Gecko's Foot written by Peter Forbes
• The First Growths of Bordeaux written by Jane Anson
• The Fighting Irish: The History of the Extraordinary Irish Soldier written by Tim Newark
• The Epigenetics Revolution written by Nessa Carey
• The Cost of Inequality: Three Decades of the Super-Rich and the Economy written by Stewart Lansley
• The Clegg Coup written by Jasper Gerard
• The Class of ’41: The Odyssey of West Point Leadership that Shaped a Century & Beyond written by Anne Kazel-Wilcox
• The Class of ’41: The Odyssey of West Point Leadership that Shaped a Century & Beyond written by P J Wilcox
• The Brontës written by Juliet Barker
• The Borgias : History's Most Notorious Dynasty written by Mary Hollingsworth
• The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power, 1898-1918. written by Sean McMeekin
• The Battle for the Arab Spring : Revolution, counter-revolution and the making of a new era written by Alex Warren
• The Battle for Singapore written by Peter Thompson
• Terror Cops written by Kris Hollington
• Taylor Swift: Fearless written by Chloe Govan
• T Force: The Race for Nazi War Secrets 1945 written by Sean Longden
• Survivor: The memoirs of Auschwitz Prisoner 135913 written by Sam Pivnik
• Success…Or Your Money Back! written by Sheridan Simove
• Subterranean Railway written by Christian Wolmar
• Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov written by Geoffrey Roberts
• Stalin's Library written by Geoffrey Roberts
• Special Forces: The Ultimate Guide To Survival written by Robert Stirling
• Special Forces Sniper Skills written by Robert Stirling
• Spanish Armada written by Robert Hutchinson
• Sold Out: The Death of the British High Street written by Teena Lyons
• Size Matters Not written by Warwick A. Davis
• Sisters in Arms written by Susan Ottaway
• Shirley Williams written by Mark Peel
• Shanghai Fury written by Peter Thompson
• Scotland's Diaspora : the History of a Global People 1750-2010. written by Tom Devine
• Scapegoat written by Katharine Quarmby
• Saudi Arabia Exposed written by John R Bradley
• SAS Ultimate Guide to Combat: How to Fight and Survive in Modern Warfare written by Robert Stirling
• Royal Legacy: 1910-2010 written by David McClure
• Rihanna: Rebel Flower written by Chloe Govan
• Right Time Baby : The Complete Guide to Later Motherhood written by Claudia Spahr
• Red One: A Bomb Disposal Expert on the Front Line written by Kevin Ivison
• Rasputin: The Untold Story written by Joseph Fuhrmann
• Railways and Empire : When Britain Ruled The Rails written by Christian Wolmar
• Prisoner of War written by Adrian Gilbert
• Plundering the Public Sector written by David Craig
• Pirate Hunter written by Carl 'Rocky' Mason
• Pillaged How billions are being looted from our savings and pensions written by David Craig
• Pacific Fury written by Peter Thompson
• Out of the Fire written by Carol Rowntree
• Operation Damocles written by Roger Howard
• Need to Know written by Timothy Good
• Murders of London: In the steps of the capital’s killers written by David Long
• Moll: the life and true times of Moll Flanders. written by Sian Rees
• Model Me written by Rachel Woods
• Misunderstood: The Brian Molko Story written by Chloe Govan
• Mission Accomplished: SOE in Italy 1943-1945 written by David Stafford
• Merrie England written by Juliet Barker
• Mayfair: The Secret History written by Peter Thompson
• Maths on Trial written by Leila Schneps
• Maths on Trial written by Coralie Colmez
• Lucky Luciano: The Real and the Fake Gangster written by Tim Newark
• Lost Without My Daughter written by Sayed Mahmoody
• Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan written by Frank Ledwidge
• Lords of the Navigation: How the Portuguese launched the age of discovery and the first global empire written by Roger Crowley
• Little Victim written by Kris Hollington
• Letters to My Daughters, written by Nadene Ghouri
• Leicester Square: Ambition, murder and the birth of the Empire. written by Hannah Renier
• Kate Perry: A Life of Fireworks written by Chloe Govan
• July 1914: Countdown to War written by Sean McMeekin
• Jessie J: Who's Laughing Now written by Chloe Govan
• James Klugmann and the Hopes and Fears of British Communism. written by Geoff Andrews
• Inside Egypt: The Road to Revolution in the Land of the Pharaohs written by John R Bradley
• Impostors written by Ian Graham
• How to Spy: The Definitive Guide to the World of Covert Investigation written by Cameron Addicott
• How the Good War Went Bad written by Nick Meo
• Hollywood Love Junkie: Confessions of a B movie actress written by Helen Croydon
• Hitler’s Gangster: The Extraordinary Crimes of Alfred Naujocks written by Tim Newark
• Hitler’s British Slaves written by Sean Longden
• History’s Greatest Heist. : The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks. written by Sean McMeekin
• Highlander: The True Story Behind a Military Legend written by Tim Newark
• Hidden London: A Guide to the Capital’s Lesser-Known Attractions written by Russ Willey
• Hess, Hitler and Churchill: The Real Turning Point of World War Two written by Peter Padfield
• Happy Adults: The Secret to Lasting Happiness and Contentment written by Cathy Glass
• Great Railway Revolution written by Christian Wolmar
• God’s Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science written by James Hannam
• Gender Bender: men, women and evolutionary psychologists written by Gavin Evans
• GCHQ written by Richard J. Aldrich
• Gallantry & Devotion: Man’s Best Friend, and the Animals' VC written by David Long
• From Starnash with Love written by Vicky Radtke
• Fix Your Life with NLP written by Alicia Eaton
• Five Days That Shook The World: An Oral History of Europe at the End of World War Two written by Nicholas Best
• Fire and Steam written by Christian Wolmar
• Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany written by Randall Hansen
• Engines of War written by Christian Wolmar
• Endgame 1945 written by David Stafford
• Empire of Crime: The dark underbelly of the British Empire written by Tim Newark
• Edinburgh Literary Companion written by Andrew Lownie
• Dyatlov Pass written by Alan Baker
• Dunkirk: The Men They Left Behind written by Sean Longden
• Ducking and Diving: The Life and Times Of An Essex Bad Girl written by Deborah Crewe
• Ducking and Diving: The Life and Times Of An Essex Bad Girl written by Tracy Mackness
• Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance after July 20, 1944 written by Randall Hansen
• Devilfish: The life and times of a poker legend written by Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott
• Deception in War written by Jon Latimer
• Dazzled and Deceived written by Peter Forbes
• Cruise Ship SOS written by Ben MacFarlane
• Crossing Antarctica: The untold story of the ill-fated Ellsworth Trans-Antarctic Expedition written by Jeff Maynard
• Criminal London:: A Sightseer’s Guide to the Capital of Crime written by Kris Hollington
• Churchill and Secret Service written by David Stafford
• Charles Masson: The Indiana Jones of Afghanistan written by Bijan Omrani
• Challenge of Battle: The Real Story of the British Army in 1914 written by Adrian Gilbert
• Buccaneers of the Caribbean written by Jon Latimer
• Brewer's Dictionary of London Phrase & Fable written by Russ Willey
• Boy From The Sky written by Nigel Randell Evans
• Blitz Kids written by Sean Longden
• Black brain, white brain written by Gavin Evans
• Bercow:: Rowdy Living in the Tory Party written by Bobby Friedman
• Behind the Veil of Vice written by John R Bradley
• Bannockburn: A New History written by David Cornell
• Baby X written by Kris Hollington
• Atlantis and The Silver City. written by Peter Daughtrey
• Asia Overland: Tales of Travel on the Trans-Siberian and Silk Road written by Bijan Omrani
• Anzac Fury written by Peter Thompson
• Antarctica: A Biography written by David Day
• Amy Winehouse: The Untold Story written by Chloe Govan
• After the Arab Spring: How the Islamists Hijacked the Middle East Revolt written by John R Bradley
• After the Arab Spring: Revolution, counter-revolution and the making of a new era written by Lin Noueihed
• A History of Florence in 100 Objects written by Mary Hollingsworth
• A History of Florence written by Mary Hollingsworth
• A Brief History of Vampires: From Vlad the Impaler to Edward Cullen, in search of the allure of the vampire written by Mei Trow
• What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex written by Sheridan Simove
• Around the Coast in Eighty Waves written by Jonathan Bennett