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The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency Ltd, founded in 1988, is one of the UK's leading boutique literary agencies with some two hundred non-fiction authors.
It prides itself on its personal attention to its clients and specialises both in launching new writers and taking established writers to a new level of recognition.
According to Publishers Marketplace, Andrew Lownie has regularly been the top selling agent in the world . He has also three times been shortlisted for ‘Agent of the Year’ at the British Bookseller Awards.
TITLES
Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich
Genre:
History
KITTY'S SALON
Author:
Urs Brunner, Julia Schrammel, Nigel Jones
Rights avail:
German, Italian
Rights sold: French
There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution. Salon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decadent Berlin of the Weimar Republic - the city of Cabaret. But after the Nazis took power, it became something more dangerous: a spying centre with every room wired for sound, staffed by women agents specially selected by the SS to coax secrets from their VIP clients. Masterminded by Reinhard Heydrich, the spymaster whom Hitler himself called 'the man with the iron heart', the exclusive establishment turned listening post was patronised by the Nazi leaders themselves, not knowing that hidden ears were listening. One of the last untold stories of the Second World War, Salon Kitty's sensational true history is now revealed by historians Nigel Jones, Urs Brunner and Dr Julia Schrammel. After years of painstaking research and investigation, the story they tell sheds new light on Nazi methods of control and coercion, and the way that they used and abused sex for their own perverse purposes.
The Night Bobby Kennedy killed Marilyn Monroe
Genre:
Biography & Memoirs
BOMBSHELL
Author:
Mike Rothmiller, Douglas Thompson
Rights avail:
French, German, Italian
Rights Sold: Czech, Hungarian
It is based on secret police files, the actress’s diary, and interviews including an astonishing confession from actor Peter Lawford - the Kennedys’ brother-in-law who was there on the night she died.
Marilyn, her diary reveals, was enraged that the Kennedys were treating her “like a whore” and was threatening to spill the beans.
Was she killed to silence her and save the country’s political royalty from embarrassment?
The Real Story
Genre:
Biography & Memoirs
MEGHAN AND HARRY
Author:
Lady Colin Campbell
Rights avail:
French, German, Italian
Rights sold: Bulgarian, Danish, Estonian, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Turkish
**A Wall Street Journal bestseller**
This blockbuster narrative provides the first behind-the-scenes, authoritative account of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s marriage, by the New York Times bestselling author of "Diana in Private".
She Was an Abused Girl and a Battered Wife - Until the Day She Fought Back
Genre:
Biography & Memoirs
I OWN YOU
Author:
Dawn McConnell and Katy Weitz
Rights avail:
French, Italian
Rights sold: German
Powerful and inspiring, I Own You is the shocking story of how one woman overcame her harrowing past to find happiness on her own terms.
The Unknown Story of America's War Against Russia
Genre:
History
THE LENIN PLOT
Author:
Barnes Carr
Rights avail:
French, German, Italian
Rights sold: Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Turkish
The surprising story of perhaps the darkest episode in American espionage history: the “midnight war” to depose Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin.
A New History of the Second World War
Genre:
History
STALIN'S WAR
Author:
Sean McMeekin
Rights avail:
French, German, Italian
Rights sold: Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish
Shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History 2022
A major new history of the Second World War by a prize-winning historian, a groundbreaking reassessment, Stalin's War is essential reading for anyone looking to understand the roots of the current world order.
Genre:
Historical
THE BRIDESHIP WIFE
Author:
Leslie Howard
Rights avail:
French, German, Italian
9th week on bestseller list for The Brideship Wife 13 Jul 2020 Leslie Howard’s The Brideship Wife is on both the Toronto Star and Globe and Mail best sellers list for the ninth consecutive week
Inspired by the history of the British “brideships,” this captivating historical debut tells the story of one woman’s coming of age and search for independence.
Genre:
Literary & General
THE HORSE'S MOUTH
Author:
Joyce Cary
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French, German, Italian
The Horse's Mouth follows the adventures of Gulley Jimson, an artist who would exploit his friends and acquaintances to earn money, told from his point of view, just as the other books in the First Trilogy tell events from their central characters' different points of view. Cary's novel also uses Gulley's unique perspective to comment on the social and political events of the time.
The Crusaders' Last Battle for the Holy Land
Genre:
History
THE ACCURSED TOWER
Author:
Roger Crowley
Rights avail:
French, Italian
Rights sold: Albanian, Arabian, Chinese, Czech, German, Hungarian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish
From a New York Times-bestselling author, a stirring account of the siege of Acre in 1291, when the last Christian stronghold fell to the Muslim army
Genre:
Literary & General
HERSELF SURPRISED
Author:
Joyce Cary
Rights avail:
French, German, Italian
Herself Surprised, the first volume of Joyce Cary's remarkable First Trilogy, introduces Sara Monday, a woman at once dissolute and devout, passionate and sly. With no regrets, Sara reviews her changing fortunes, remembering the drudgery of domestic servitude, the pleasures of playing the great lady in a small provincial town, and the splendors and miseries of life as the model, muse, and mistress of the painter Gulley Jimson.
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