Events
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CANCELLED- Dora Carrington: Beyond Bloomsbury
Join co-curator Ariane Bankes at Pallant House, ChichesterLAST CALL: BOOKING DEADLINE 10 February Biographers’ Club prize administrator Ariane Bankes has co-curated the exhibition Dora Carrington: Beyond Bloomsbury at Pallant House, Chichester, till 27th April. This is the first exhibition in 30 years devoted to the remarkably talented and entirely original artist Carrington (1893 – 1932),…
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Booksellers’ Tales at Hatchards
Sarah Anderson and Martin LathamTuesday, 18 February, 6.30pmHatchards Piccadilly Sarah Anderson, founder of the Travel Bookshop in Notting Hill, explains how she set up the shop and how THE film changed things. Martin Latham, the longest-serving bookseller at Waterstones and author of The Bookseller’s Tale, takes us on a journey through comfort reads, street book…
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Sue Prideaux in conversation with Laura Hassan
The Biographers’ Club is very excited that Sue Prideaux will give a talk at Hatchards on Wednesday 19 March about her recent book Wild Thing – A Life of Paul Gauguin. She will be in conversation with Laura Hassan, her editor at Faber, and we will find out how a book comes into being –…
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The Hatchards Best First Biography Prize: the shortlist
Prize giving at Hatchards, Tuesday 4 March, 6.30pm Hatchards and the Biographers’ Club have announced the shortlist for the Best First Biography Prize 2024. Ashley John-Baptiste, Looked After: A Childhood in Care (Hodder)A story of inner resilience that enabled the author to survive and flourish after a turbulent childhood. Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell, These Heavy Black Bones (Canongate)The first…
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Exceptional Contribution winner 2024: Lucy Hughes-Hallett at Maggs Bros
Tuesday 14 January The Biographers’ Club is delighted that its 2024 Exceptional Contribution to Biography Prize goes to Lucy Hughes-Hallett, whose many ground-breaking and acclaimed books include The Pike, a biography of Gabriele D’Annunzio that won the Samuel Johnson, Costa and Duff Cooper prizes. Most recently, she has published The Scapegoat, a reassessment of George…
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Christmas Party and Elizabeth Buccleuch Prize
Join us for drinks and nibbles at our Christmas party, and for the presentation of the Elizabeth Buccleuch Prize, given for the best proposal by a first-time biographer. When: Wednesday 11 December, 6.30pm to 8.30pm Where: E6 Albany, Piccadilly, London W1J OAR. Tickets: £20 (members and guests). PLEASE PAY BY BANK TRANSFER OR THROUGH YOUR BRANCH. Book and…
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Clare Mulley at Hatchards
When: 6.30pm, Thursday 12 September Where: Hatchards, 187 Piccadilly London W1J 9LE Tickets: £10 (£5 for Biographers’ Club members) through Eventbrite here Clare Mulley will be in conversation about her highly acclaimed new book Agent Zo with biographer Anne Sebba, author of Ethel Rosenberg, Les Parisiennes and That Woman. Agent Zo tells the incredible story…
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Darren Coffield at the French House
Darren Coffield is to give a talk, ‘Queens of Bohemia: Fabled Femmes of the French House’, at the French House in Soho on Monday, 24 June. The event is free, and starts at 6.30pm. www.frenchhousesoho.com/; [email protected]. The talk is based on Coffield’s latest book, Queens of Bohemia and Other Miss-fits (History Press), which has a…
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The Biographers’ Club Summer Party
Date and time: Tuesday 18th June, 6.30pm-8.30pm Venue: St Mark’s, St Mark’s Square, London NW1 7TN https://www.stmarksregentspark.org.uk/ Join us for drinks and canapés in the garden of St Mark’s, next door to Regent’s Park. We can go indoors if it’s wet. Tickets: £25 RSVP and apply for bank details (no cheques, please): [email protected].
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Ariane Bankes: The Quality of Love
Date and time: Thursday 30 MayTickets: £10 – book here Join Ariane Bankes, Biographers’ Club prizes administrator, as she discusses her sparkling memoir The Quality of Love with Cressida Connolly. When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a battered trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine. This…