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Member Jane Dismore’s book Tangled Souls: Love, Obsession & Scandal Among the Victorian Aristocracy has been commissioned by The History Press
Jane’s next book has been commissioned by The History Press. It’s called Tangled Souls: Love, Obsession and Scandal among the Victorian Aristocracy. Est. date of publication: Feb. 2022. Jane Dismore is a freelance writer of history and heritage and a biographer. She writes books and features and is a member of the Society of Authors, the Biographers’ Club,…
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Member Jan Slimming has a new book out called Codebreaker Girls: A Secret Life at Bletchley Park. Foreword by Sir Dermot Turing
About A fascinating insight into a daughter’s discovery of her mother’s secret life during World War II. Original letters and photographs from family and friends’ archives, including the Vatican War enquiry Dept., the Foreign Office, Bletchley Park and the National Archives. How was Daisy Lawrence chosen? Why she was chosen, and what did she do?…
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TONY LOTHIAN PRIZE 2020 ANNOUNCED!
Kate Crehan wins the 2020 Tony Lothian Prize for her proposal But Will it Get a Laugh? The Life of Doris Hare in Three Acts Doris Hare’s performance career, from child actress to Variety and the pre-war revues of Noel Coward and Andre Charlot to nationwide fame in the TV sitcom On the Buses, spans much…
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The Shortlist for the 2020 Tony Lothian Prize has been Announced
Tony Lothian Prize 2020 Our shortlist for the best proposal for an uncommissioned biography received in 2020 is just announced, and the prize will be awarded at a Biographers’ Club celebratory event on Zoom on Tuesday 1 December Brad Bigelow: Failures – Six Ways to be Forgotten There’s really only one way to succeed as a…
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Biographer Kevin Shillington has released Patrick van Rensburg, Rebel, visionary and radical educationist, a biography
Historian and biographer Kevin Shillington has released Patrick van Rensburg, Rebel, visionary and radical educationist, a biography. His recent books include Albert René: the Father of Modern Seychelles (2014) and History of Africa 4th edition (2019) Patrick van Rensburg (1931–2017) was an anti-apartheid activist and self-made ‘alternative educationist’ whose work received international recognition with the Right Livelihood Award in 1981. Born in KwaZulu-Natal into what he…
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Member Mohsin Zaidi’s biography ‘A Dutiful Boy’ is out now!
Member and Author Mohsin Zaidi’s biography ‘A Dutiful Boy’ was published just over a week ago to critical acclaim. Mohsin Zaidi grew up in a devout Muslim community in an economically deprived area of East London. Feeling isolated from his family, as he struggled with his sexuality, Moshin found an incredible drive for education, and became…
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Felicity Bryan dies aged 74
The great literary agent Felicity Bryan, has died of cancer aged 74. She was the founder in 1988 of the distinguished literary agency Felicity Bryan Associates. She was liked and respected in equal measures in the world in which she had worked since 1972, when she joined Curtis Brown. The Guardian Obituary says, “In those days, few agents struck out…
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Members Memoirs of Lockdown
The Biographers’ Club has been inviting members to contribute reflections, diaries or pieces of memoir prompted by the extraordinary times we are living through. Below are some of the wonderful pieces you have sent us, we hope in doing this to create a unique and wonderful archive of this terrible time. Please do, if you…
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Week Four of Isolation
Dear Members, We hope you had a lovely Easter and are all well! We are now into our fourth week of isolation and lockdown, and like last week The Biographers’ Club is inviting members to continue to contribute reflections, diaries or pieces of memoir prompted by the extraordinary times we are living through. We have received such brilliant and…
