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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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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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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 Hatchards 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…
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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…
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Hatchards Best First Biography: the shortlist
Hatchards and the Biographers’ Club have announced the shortlist for the Hatchards 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 Black woman ever to…
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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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Mark Nayler wins 2024 Elizabeth Buccleuch Prize
The Biographers’ Club is delighted to announce that the winner of the Elizabeth Buccleuch Prize 2024 is Mark Nayler for his proposal ‘The Popular Philosopher: A Life of Bryan Magee’. His victory was announced at the Biographers’ Club Christmas Party, held in Albany, Piccadilly, on 11th December. Out of a strong and varied shortlist of…
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The Biographers’ Club is delighted to announce that the biographer, historian and novelist Lucy Hughes-Hallett has been awarded The Exceptional Contribution to Biography Award 2024
Author of The Pike: Gabriele D’Annunzio (2013) which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize, the Costa Biography Award and the Political Book Awards Biography of the Year. In 2020 The Sunday Times called it ‘the biography of the decade’. Previous biographical works include Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions and Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen. Lucy’s latest book published to…
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Elizabeth Buccleuch Prize 2024 Shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2024 Elizabeth Buccleuch Prize has been announced. The prize awards £2,000 to the best proposal for an uncommissioned first biography. The Prize, run by the Biographers’ Club, is generously sponsored by the Duke of Buccleuch in memory of his late wife Elizabeth, Duchess of Buccleuch(1954-2023). The shortlisted proposals are (in alphabetical order): Jane Anson, Lili, Countess 57628 The…
