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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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Hatchards and the Biographers’ Club are delighted to announce the launch of the 2025 Hatchards & Biographers’ Club First Biography Prize
Hatchards and the Biographers’ Club are delighted to announce the launch of the 2025 Hatchards & Biographers’ Club First Biography Prize, the second year of Hatchards’ sponsorship of the Biographers’ Club celebrated Best First Biography prize. The prize awards £2,500 to the best biography or memoir published that year, and has been won in recent…
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Elizabeth Buccleuch Prize 2025 is Launched!
The prize awards £2,000 to the best proposal for an uncommissioned first biography, and is generously sponsored by the Duke of Buccleuch in memory of his late wife Elizabeth, Duchess of Buccleuch (1954-2023). Click here for more information on how to enter
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Dr. Koop: The Many Lives of the Surgeon General
Weds, May 21st, from 6.30 p.m., at the Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street You are invited to join the launch of the first biography of Dr C Everett Koop, by Biographers’ Club member Nigel Cameron. Dr Koop was the world’s most famous paediatric surgeon before President Reagan made him US Surgeon General in…
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The Winner of the Hatchards First Biography Prize is…
Michael Nott wins Hatchards first biography prize‘Vibrant’ life of poet Thom Gunn takes £2,500 prize, run by the Biographers’ ClubThe Hatchards & Biographers’ Club Best First Biography Prize 2024 has gone to Michael Nott for Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life (Faber). Nott received the £2,500 prize at a reception yesterday evening (4 March) at Hatchards Piccadilly. Tom…
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Sarah Anderson and Martin Latham at Hatchards
Martin Latham, Waterstones’ longest serving bookseller and author of The Bookseller’s Tale, and Sarah Anderson, founder of the Travel Bookshop (now the Notting Hill Bookshop) and author of The Lost Art of Silence, discussed all matters bookselling at Hatchards Piccadilly. Their discussion ranged over, among other matters, lovely authors (Michael Palin, Dervla Murphy), complicated ones…
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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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Lucy Hughes-Hallett receives Exceptional Contribution prize
Lucy Hughes-Hallett, author of acclaimed biographies including The Pike and the recently published The Favourite, received the Club’s Exceptional Contribution to Biography Prize at a ceremony and talk at Magg Bros, Bedford Square. Hughes-Hallett divulged secrets from her writing life in conversation with Jane Ridley, Club chairman. Photo: Lucy Hughes-Hallett (left) and Jane Ridley after…
