Clients

I have created websites for nearly ten years and have worked with a number of well-known faces including the TV personality and writer Christian Wolmar; developed website for writers Tim Newark, Adrian Gilbert, Geoff Andrews, etc; helped Andrew Lownie over the past four years developing his agency website who is most successful non-fiction literary agent in the UK.

If you would like to get a quote or even get some advice for creating your own website, please contact me by sending email to jay@activars.com

Below is a list of clients I had worked with.

Andrew Lownie Literary Agency (www.andrewlownie.co.uk)

The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency Ltd, founded in 1988, is now one of the UK’s leading non-fiction literary agencies with a special emphasis on history and biography.

Books represented have included The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English, The Oxford Classical Dictionary, Norma Major’s history of Chequers and the memoirs of Sir John Mills, Alan Whicker, Gloria Hunniford and Patrick MacNee. Find out more…

Christian Wolmar (www.christianwolmar.co.uk)

The website provides an archive of Christian Wolmar’s transport columns and other contributions to the public debate. He writes regular columns for Rail magazine and Transport Times, as well as occasional articles for several newspapers including the Evening Standard, The Independent, the Guardian and the Yorkshire Post. I also appear regularly as a commentator on television and radio. Find out more…

Peter Evans (www.peterevanswriter.com)

Peter Evans, a columnist and foreign correspondent with the Daily Express, at the height of its success in the 1960s, has since written for the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, and the New York magazine, as well as every major newspaper in Britain, including The Times, the Independent, the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Mail.

Geoff Andrews (www.geoffandrews.net)

Geoff Andrews is a writer and academic. His recent writings have been on modern Italy and he has also written on British politics, European political ideas and movements and more recently Slow Food. In addition to his academic work, he is a regular media commentator on Italian politics and current affairs and writes regularly as a political journalist for a range of newspapers and magazines, including the Financial Times, Open Democracy and Soundings, of which he is an associate editor.

Paul Gosling (www.paulgosling.net)

Paul is The Independent’s ‘financial agony uncle’: compiling its weekly Questions of Cash column, answering reader’s questions and challenging banks and other companies on behalf of readers. Paul is also a specialist in public sector management and finance; accountancy; financial management; and social enterprise.

A well-known commentator on public policy and on UK and European public services, Paul is a regular contributor to leading specialist public sector magazines: Public Finance, Local Government Chronicle, Public Servant, Public Eye and Health Service Review.

Tim Newark (www.timnewark.com)

Tim Newark currently contributes book reviews to the Financial Times and Time Out. And he is the book writer of Brassey’s Book of Camouflage, The Future of Camouflage, The Mafia at War and Myth-Busting: Hitler was a Left-Winger

Adrian Gilbert (www.adrian-gilbert.co.uk)

Adrian Gilbert has written several books on military history, most notably on the First and Second World Wars and sharpshooting. His most recent book is POW: Allied Prisoners in Europe 1939-1945, published by John Murray in October 2006.

Some of Adrian Gilbert’s other books include The Imperial War Museum Book of the Desert War (Sidgwick & Jackson), published in 1992 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the battle of El Alamain; Britain Invaded (Century), an imaginary account of a cross-channel German invasion in 1940; and Germany’s Lightning War (David & Charles).

David Long (www.davidlong.info)

A writer and journalist since graduating in the 1980s, his work has regularly appeared in the Sunday Times and its magazine, in the Sunday Mirror and the London Evening Standard. Whilst a columnist on the Sunday People, he created a popular cartoon strip which ran for several years in the weekend edition of the Times.

Archived project

Biographer’s Club (2005-2008)

Haus Publishing (2005-2007)