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It is not currently taking on new fiction writers.</p> 174 175 <p>Books represented have included: The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English: The Oxford Classical Dictionary; The Penguin Companion to the Edinburgh Union; Norma Major's history of Chequers; the memoirs of Sir John Mills, Alan Whicker, Gloria Hunniford, David Hasselhoff, Emily Lloyd, Kerry Katona and Patrick MacNee ; the best-selling fostering series by Cathy Glass and Casey Watson; Sam Faiersâ <em>Living Life the Essex Way</em>; Daniel Tammetâs international best-seller <em>Born on a Blue Day</em>; Laurence Gardnerâs <em>The Magdalene Legacy and The Shadow of Solomon</em>, the literary estates of Joyce Cary and Julian MacLaren-Ross; the historians Juliet Barker, Roger Crowley, Tom Devine, Robert Hutchinson, Sean McMeekin, Linda Porter, Geoff Roberts ,Desmond Seward, David Stafford and Christian Wolmar; the wine writer Michael Schuster; crime writers, such as Mei Trow and David Roberts, and thriller writers such as Duncan Falconer.</p> 176 177 <p>The agency sells directly to the US and Australia and uses various sub-agents for translation and film rights . It also places its authors as speakers at festivals and on cruise ships.</p> 178 179 180 </div> 181 182 </div> 183 184 185 186 </div> 187 188 <!-- agency --> 189 190 <!-- andrew --> 191 <div class="row"> 192 193 <div class="col-lg-3 col-lg-push-9 col-md-3 col-md-push-9 col-sm-12 mobile-col-right"> 194 195 196 197 198 199 200<figure class="ncms-module ncms-image right-image "> 201 <img src="//assets.andrewlownie.co.uk/images/static/DSC_0294.jpg" alt="Andrew Lownie" class="img-responsive"/> 202 203</figure> 204 </div> 205 206 207 <div class="col-lg-9 col-lg-pull-3 col-md-9 col-md-pull-3 col-sm-12 mobile-col-left"> 208 209 <div class="text-container"> 210 211 <h2>About Andrew</h2> 212 213 <p>Andrew Lownie was born in 1961 and was educated in Britain and America. He read history at Magdalene College, Cambridge where he was President of the Union. He went on to gain an MSc and doctorate at Edinburgh University and spend a year at the College of Law in London. After a period as a bookseller and journalist, he began his publishing career as the graduate trainee at Hodder & Stoughton. In 1985 became an agent at John Farquharson, now part of Curtis Brown, and the following year became the then youngest director in British publishing when he was appointed a director. He set up the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency in 1988.</p> 214 215 <p>Since 1984 he has written and reviewed for a range of newspapers and magazines, including The Times, Spectator and Guardian, which has given him good journalistic contacts. As an author himself, most notably of a biography of John Buchan, a literary companion to Edinburgh and a prize-winning biography of the spy Guy Burgess and two top ten Sunday Times bestsellers The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves and Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, he has an understanding of the issues and problems affecting writers.</p> 216 217 <p>He has acted as the literary agent to the international writers' organisation PEN. In 1998 he founded The Biographers Club, a monthly dining society for biographers and those involved in promoting biography, and The Biographers' Club Prize which supports first-time biographers. He has had a regular advice column in the writing magazine <em>Words with Jam</em>, written the entries on submitting to agents for <em>The Writers Handbook</em> and <em>The Writers and Artists Yearbook</em>, contributed to <em>The Arvon Book of Life Writing</em> and regularly gives talks on aspects of publishing.</p> 218 219 </div> 220 221 </div> 222 223 224 225 226 </div> 227 228 <!-- andrew --> 229 230 231</div> 232 </div> 233 </div> 234 235 <footer> 236 <div class="footer-strip"> 237 <div class="container"> 238 <div class="row"> 239 <div class="col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6"> 240 <span class="copyright">© 2026 Andrew Lownie Literary Agency Ltd</span> 241 </div> 242 <div class="col-lg-6 col-md-6 col-sm-6 text-right"> 243 <ul> 244 <li><a href="https://www.andrewlownie.co.uk/privacy_policy">Privacy Policy</a></li> 245 <li class="line-spacer">|</li> 246 <li><a href="https://www.andrewlownie.co.uk/terms_and_conditions">Terms & Conditions</a></li> 247 <li class="line-spacer">|</li> 248 <li><a href="https://nakedcreativity.co.uk/website-design/" target="_blank">
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