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Andrew Lownie
Senior Research Fellow @ University of Buckingham | Multiple Publications
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
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About
As a Senior Research Fellow in Modern British History at the University of Buckingham and a Visiting Professor at the Ulster Literary Biography Research Centre, I combine my academic expertise and passion for historical research with my extensive publishing experience and literary network. I have a PhD in History from the University of Edinburgh and I am the author of several acclaimed books, including Stalin's Englishman, a definitive biography of the Cambridge spy Guy Burgess.
I am also the owner and founder of the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency Ltd, one of the UK's leading boutique literary agencies, specializing in launching new writers and taking established writers to a new level of recognition. I have represented over 200 non-fiction authors, ranging from politicians and celebrities to academics and journalists, and I have secured multiple deals, awards, and adaptations for their works. I pride myself on my personal attention to my clients, my editorial skills, and my web content and copy editing expertise.
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An important issue not just for historians but all citizens.
An important issue not just for historians but all citizens.
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If you enjoy reading about the Royal Family, if you are interested in the story behind the myth, and some really good history then you will want to…
If you enjoy reading about the Royal Family, if you are interested in the story behind the myth, and some really good history then you will want to…
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Experience
Education
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Cargilfield
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Fettes
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Westminster School
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Magdalene College, Cambridge
Master’s Degree History
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Activities and Societies: President of the Union, 1984
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The University of Edinburgh
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD HISTORY
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The use of biography to write Intelligence History.
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Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess
Hodder
Guy Burgess was the most important, complex and fascinating of 'The Cambridge Spies' - Maclean, Philby, Blunt - all brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers.
In…Guy Burgess was the most important, complex and fascinating of 'The Cambridge Spies' - Maclean, Philby, Blunt - all brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers.
In this first full biography, Andrew Lownie shows us how even Burgess's chaotic personal life of drunken philandering did nothing to stop his penetration and betrayal of the British Intelligence Service. Even when he was under suspicion, the fabled charm which had enabled many close personal relationships with influential Establishment figures (including Winston Churchill) prevented his exposure as a spy for many years.
Through interviews with more than a hundred people who knew Burgess personally, many of whom have never spoken about him before, and the discovery of hitherto secret files, Stalin's Englishman brilliantly unravels the many lives of Guy Burgess in all their intriguing, chilling, colourful, tragi-comic wonder. -
The Edinburgh Literary Companion
Birlinn
Few cities can boast such a distinguished literary pedigree as Edinburgh. Burns, Scott, Conan Doyle, Buchan, Dorothy Dunnett and J.K. Rowling have all lived in the city; Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon convalesced there (inspiring Pat Barker's Booker-prize-winning Regeneration trilogy), and Dickens and Thackeray came on triumphant reading tours. Visitors have ranged from Defoe and George Eliot to Wordsworth, Hans Christian Anderson and the hundreds of renowned authors who now appear at one…
Few cities can boast such a distinguished literary pedigree as Edinburgh. Burns, Scott, Conan Doyle, Buchan, Dorothy Dunnett and J.K. Rowling have all lived in the city; Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon convalesced there (inspiring Pat Barker's Booker-prize-winning Regeneration trilogy), and Dickens and Thackeray came on triumphant reading tours. Visitors have ranged from Defoe and George Eliot to Wordsworth, Hans Christian Anderson and the hundreds of renowned authors who now appear at one of the literary world's most important annual events - The Edinburgh International Book Festival.This new and hugely expanded edition of The Literary Companion to Edinburgh traces the city's history from the Old Town, dominated by the Castle and the High Streets with its numerous wynds and closes, to the elegant and spacious New Town and its surrounding villages.
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John Buchan: The Presbyterian Cavalier
Constable, 1992
Biography of the author and Governor-General of Canada.
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Our latest episode looks at Rudolph Hess's flight to Britain in 1941.
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Documentary based on my book Traitor KIng.
Documentary based on my book Traitor KIng.
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My thoughts on Prince Andrew. Keen to talk to anyone who has had dealings with him.
My thoughts on Prince Andrew. Keen to talk to anyone who has had dealings with him.
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The book cries out to be made into a film.
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I fear this story is the tip of the iceberg. The National Archives should be about making files available not suppressing them.
I fear this story is the tip of the iceberg. The National Archives should be about making files available not suppressing them.
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