Andrew Lownie Literary Agency : News

Author Hugh Brazier dies

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:57:00 +0000

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.

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:56:00 +0000

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

Nazi Ghost Train makes top ten

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:54:00 +0000

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

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:52:00 +0000

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

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.