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Frances Wilson and the enigma of Muriel Spark
Time: 6.30pm, Tuesday 11 NovemberAddress: Maggs Bros, Bedford Square Frances Wilson’s Electric Spark (Bloomsbury), about the early years of the great novelist Muriel Spark, can claim to be the most highly praised biography of 2025. ‘A brilliant, wonderfully shrewd biography’ (William Boyd); ‘Pitch-perfect, electrifying. Reconfirms Wilson’s pre-eminence as Maestra of British biography’ (Rachel Holmes); ‘Joyously,…
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Ann Wroe in conversation with Iona Mclaren
When: Tuesday 7 November,Where: Hatchards, PiccadillyTickets: Click here Come and meet Ann Wroe, winner of the Biographers’ Club Exceptional Contribution to Biography award in 2020, who will be in conversation with Iona Mclaren. Her new book, Lifescapes, reflects on the art of trying to catch lives on the page. Ann Wroe is the acclaimed author of books including…
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Christmas Party and Tony Lothian prize giving 2022
Join us for wine and nibbles at our Christmas party, and for the presentation of the Tony Lothian Prize.
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Congratulations to Our Paperback Writer!
The History Press publishes this autumn paperback editions of two titles by club member Jane Dismore. They are Tangled Souls: Love and Scandal among the Victorian Aristocracy (24 September) and No Country for a Woman: The Adventurous Life of Lady Dorothy Mills, Explorer and Writer (5 November). Pre-order your copy of the latter now! And, while you wait, read…
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The Traveller – Andrea Wulf on 18th-century Polymath and Visionary, George Forster
Where: Hatchards, Piccadilly; When: Wed., 28th October, 6:30pm; Tickets: click here Andrea Wulf discusses her book ‘The Traveller,’ in conversation with Nicholas Crane and Ariane Bankes. ‘The Traveller: The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and his Search for Humanity’ George Forster was a man out of time: he journeyed to the far reaches of the…
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When Sources Are Rare: Peter Stanford in Conversation with Ann Wroe
Time and date: 6.30pm – 8pm, Thursday 23 September; Venue: Maggs Bros, 48 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DR; Tickets: £15. Please book through Join It, by clicking here. Peter Stanford’s most recent book, Gaudi: God’s Architect (Hodder & Stoughton, 2026) – along with his earlier Judas: The Troubling History of the Renegade Apostle (John Murray)…
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Club Member Reaches New Heights!
We are delighted to announce the upcoming publication of an exciting new group biography from our distinguished member Rosemary J. Brown (recent recipient of the Alpine Club’s inaugural Audrey Salkeld Bursary for Media & Research Into Alpinism) – Moving Mountains: Intrepid Women Climbers and the Peaks Named in Their Honour (History Press, 2026). Pre-order your copy…
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Salkeld Bursary for Club Member
Rosemary J Brown, whose new book Moving Mountains: Intrepid Women Climbers and the Peaks Named in Their Honour is out from the History Press in August, is among the recipients of the Alpine Club’s inaugural Audrey Salkeld Bursary for Media & Research Into Alpinism. The bursary, established in honour of a renowned mountaineering historian, aims to facilitate…
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JoinIt: A New Way to Pay
The Biographers’ Club is switching to the Join It platform to manage its membership list and events programme. From now on, you will get email reminders when your membership comes up for renewal, and you can pay directly, via Stripe, by following the links from the email button. Paying for events will be simpler too,…
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I, Vera: A Radical Princess with Miranda Seymour
Wed, 27 May 2026, 18:30 at Hatchards, Piccadilly. Buy your ticket here! The Biographers’ Club is delighted to recommend – to members and non-members alike – what promises to be a scintillating talk from one of Britain’s leading biographers. Born in 1870, Vera was the rebel daughter of a Lithuanian prince and a Russo-German mother. Trained, with…
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Plath’s Psychiatrist
Club member Nigel Cameron is at work on a biography of Ruth Barnhouse (Beuscher), Sylvia Plath’s psychiatrist and friend, and is due to deliver the ms to University of Massachusetts Press for publication in 2028. The press published Cameron’s previous book, Dr. Koop: The Many Lives of the Surgeon General, in 2025.
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Soho Legend
The National Portrait Gallery will hold a launch for Club member Darren Coffield’s new book, Hen, Mistress of Mayhem, a biography of Soho legend Henrietta Moraes, at 6-9pm on Wednesday 15 April. The launch will take place in Larry’s bar – entrance in St Martin’s Place. Coffield will give a talk and book signing at the…
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The Biographers’ Club Summer Party, 2026
Date and time: Thursday 2 July, 6.30pm-8.30pmVenue: St Mary’s, Cadogan Street, London SW3 2QP Tickets: £25 from [email protected] Join us for drinks and canapés in the garden of St Mary’s, a Grade II-listed Catholic church in Chelsea. There is a marquee in case of rain.
