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Fogg departs Harper to become literary agent


Quercus signs up Auschwitz survivor


Quercus has landed Auschwitz survivor Tova Friedman’s memoir in a six-figure pre-empt. Non-fiction publisher Katy Follain won UK and Commonwealth rights in The Daughter of Auschwitz from Adam Gauntlett at PFD. North American rights were pre-empted by Hanover Square Press, an imprint of HarperCollins US. It is scheduled to be published in autumn 2023. The book will be co-written by


JACK FOGG WILL JOIN FORCES WITH FORMER COLLEAGUE BEN DUNN


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Jack Fogg is leaving his role as publishing direc- tor at HarperNonFiction


to set up a new literary agency with Ben Dunn. The DunnFogg Literary Agency will concentrate on adult fiction and non-fiction. Fogg and Dunn have worked together as publishers and authors, at Fourth Estate, Hodder, Century and Bloomsbury. During Fogg’s time at HarperNonFiction he published authors such as Ant Middleton, Adrian Newey, Amy Schumer, Limmy, Bruce Dickinson, Michael Cox, Florence De Changy and Adam Buxton. In 2019, he set up the Mudlark imprint, and in 2018 he was nominated for the British Book Awards’ Editor of the Year. Dunn started as a literary agent in the summer of 2018, aſter 25 years as a publisher. He has brokered a number of high-profile deals, including Daisy May Cooper’s memoir Don’t Laugh It Will Only Encourage Her (Michael Joseph); Annie MacManus’ début novel Mother Mother (Headline); Dr Richard Firth Godbehere’s


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How Human Emotions Shaped the World (Fourth Estate), which has sold in 18 territories around the world; and most recently, Dunn conducted an 18-way auction for Dan Schreiber’s The Theory of Everything Else (Mudlark). Fogg said: “I’m incredibly


excited to take this next step in my career as an agent and to be reunited with Ben, who has been such a great friend and ally over so many years. I’ve had a wonderful time at HarperCollins, working with many fantastic authors and colleagues, but now felt like the right time to embark on this new challenge alongside Ben, who has already achieved so much as an agent.”


Dunn said: “I’ve had an amaz- ing time running my own agency, working with my incredibly talented authors. Now I’m very excited to have the opportunit to work with one of my great friends—whose opinion on publishing maters I’ve always sought and valued—and to start our new venture together.” Reporting Sian Bayley


Malcolm Brabant, an award-winning special correspondent with America’s


“PBS Newshour”, and a former BBC war reporter. Friedman, 83, was one of the


youngest survivors of Auschwitz. Aged four, she was sent to the Birkenau extermination camp, but she and her mother managed to survive for six months until the camp was liberated by the Russians. Friedman is now a therapist and campaigner against antisemitism who lives in New Jersey. She said: “I have been telling my story for many years to school- children, to churches, to synagogues and everybody who invited me. But this is the first time that I will be able to reach a wider audience.”


Debut novel by Macmillan’s Appiah snapped up in six-figure deal


Début The Borough Press has scooped “an intimate


and compelling” début novel from writer, screenwriter and Macmillan Children’s Books editor Krystle Zara Appiah in a six-figure deal. Carla Josephson, editorial director,


acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, for Rootless from Juliet Mushens at Mushens Entertainment. North American rights were pre-empted by Chelcee Johns at Ballantine in a six-figure deal via Jenny Bent at The Bent Agency on behalf of Mushens; Signatuur in the


Netherlands snapped up Dutch rights. It will be published in April 2023. Rootless follows best


friends Efeand Sam, who meet as teenagers in 1990s London. Over the years that follow, the best friends become lovers, then marry. But an unplanned pregnancy forces them to confront just how radically different they want their lives to be. Soon Efe is swallowed up by the demands of motherhood, her life dreams dangling by a thread. And when she disappears one morning, leaving Sam and their daughter behind, Sam’s illusion of their perfect marriage crumbles. osephson said: “I fell in love with Efe and Sam from the very first pages. Their relationship and the conflicts within are so beautifully observed and extraordinarily poignant. Krystle has painted an intimate, compel- ling portrait of a British-Ghanaian marriage in crisis, exploring themes of motherhood, family and the mean- ing of home.”


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