Andrew Lownie Literary Agency : News

Recent translation sales

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:18:00 +0000

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.

A woman's search for justice bought by Reach

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:13:00 +0000

The Reckoning by Tara Proffitt with Ann Cusack has been bought by Reach.

Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York becomes international bestseller

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:10:00 +0000

Andrew Lownie’s Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York was published by William Collins in the UK and The Westminster Press in US. After a five-day serial in the Daily Mail it immediately shot to no 1 on Amazon.co.uk and no 1 overall on the Sunday Times bestseller list.

Memoir by survivor of Fred West serialised in Mail

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:02:00 +0000

Under Their Roof: My shocking true story of surviving serial killers by Kathleen Richards with Ann Cusack was serialised in the Daily Mail.

Latest Ann Cusack memoir to Reach

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000

Reach have bought World English rights in The Reckoning by Tara Proffitt and Ann Cusack

Recent translation sales

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:50:00 +0000

Polish rights in Andy Dobson’s Flaws of Nature.

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

Swedish rights in Ross King’s The Shortest History of Italy.

Secrets of RMS Niagara: The British Gold Ship Sunk in a Nazi Minefield bought by History Press

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:46:00 +0000

The History Press have bought World English rights in Jeff Maynard’s Secrets of RMS Niagara: The British Gold Ship Sunk in a Nazi Minefield

Secrets of RMS Niagara: The British Gold Ship Sunk in a Nazi Minefield bought by History Press

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:46:00 +0000

The History Press have bought World English rights in Jeff Maynard’s Secrets of RMS Niagara: The British Gold Ship Sunk in a Nazi Minefield

Deaths of two authors

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 08:41:00 +0000

I’m sorry to report the death of agency author Philip Walker. His first and only book Behind the Lawrence Legend: the Forgotten Few Who Shaped the Arab Revolt rewrote the story of TE Lawrence and the Arab Revolt by looking at a dozen British officers instrumental in its success.

Sadly former Guardian journalist, novelist and crime writer Duncan Campbell has also just died. Campbell was legendary for his incisive reporting of many of the best known crime stories of the last four decades.

Both men were in their seventies.

Recent translation sales

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 08:31:00 +0000

Estonian rights in Paul Morland’s No One Left: Why the World Needs More Children.

Spanish rights in Selwyn Parker’s The Great Crash

Russian rights in Daniel Tammet’s Nine Minds.