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Week One of Self Isolation- Our weekly letter to you
Dear Members, While we wait out these uncertain times, we hope you are all well and safe. But if like us you are confined to your home and a bit fed up, we at The Biographers’ Club would like to bring you a boost of weekly book news, and entertainment, to distract you from the endless BBC updates. Biographers’ book of the…
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Winner of our 2019 Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize is, Jonathan Phillips’ The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin is an epic story of empire-building and bloody conflict. It is a ground-breaking biography of one of history’s most venerated military and religious heroes which opens a window on the Islamic and Christian worlds’ complex relationship. When Saladin recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187, returning the Holy…
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Do not miss Episode 16 of The Slightly Foxed Podcast featuring our very own committee member Jane Ridley
Do not miss Episode 16 of The Slightly Foxed Podcast featuring our very own committee member Jane Ridley who talks all things royal and what it is like to write about some of our greatest monarchs For more options, visit https://audioboom.com/posts/7502880-moving-in-royal-circles
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Michael Moran releases new book, The Pocket Paderewski : The Beguiling Life of the Australian Concert Pianist Edward Cahill
The Pocket Paderewski : The Beguiling Life of the Australian Concert Pianist Edward Cahill by Michael Moran (Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne 2016) Available from Amazon.co.uk ‘But with what vigour, what virtuosity and poetry this master plays the piano!’ Chronique musicale, Montreux 5 May 1939 The glamorous concert pianist Edward Cahill (1885-1975) rose to prominence from humble…
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Alexander Masters is this year’s winner of the Biographer’ Club Prize for an Exceptional Contribution to Biography
Alexander Masters with Lucy Hughes-Hallett – 23 January 2020 We are thrilled to announce that Alexander Masters is this year’s winner of the Biographer’ Club Prize for an Exceptional Contribution to Biography. Alexander Masters’s prize-winning Stuart: A Life Backwards, is the story of Stuart Shorter, a homeless man living in Cambridge. This brilliantly innovative biography created…
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Tom Seymour Evans wins Tony Lothian Prize
The 2019 Tony Lothian Prize has gone to Tom Seymour Evans for The Canyons – Six British Exiles, Los Angeles and the Counterculture. Seymour Evans received the £2,000 prize at the Biographers’ Club Christmas Party at Albany. The Tony Lothian Prize, sponsored by the Duchess of Buccleuch in memory of her mother Tony Lothian, is…
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The Shortlist for the 2019 Tony Lothian Prize has been Announced
Tony Lothian Prize 2019 Our shortlist for the best proposal for an uncommissioned biography received in 2019 is just announced, and the prize will be awarded at the Biographers’ Club Christmas Party on Wednesday 4 December Emma Bielecki: The Lives of Vidocq – From King of Thieves to Prince of Policemen The improbable story of…
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William Feaver on Lucian Freud
A packed audience at Magg Bros in Soho came to hear William Feaver in conversation with Michael Prodger about Feaver’s highly acclaimed The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth (Bloomsbury). Feaver revealed how he had progressed from what had originally been proposed as a slim, World of Art paperback and from his subject’s discouraging early reaction…
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Member Philip Williams self publishes a biography of his great great uncle, William Smith Williams
“The mysterious publisher William Smith Williams has always been the unsung hero of the Brontë Story. Not only did he discover Jane Eyre, he was Charlotte Brontë’s friend and supporter. In a fascinating book Smith Williams is at last brought to life thanks to the forensic skills of his great, great nephew.” Rebecca Fraser The…
