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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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Passion, Politics and Power: The Life of Lady Pamela Berry
Patrons of the London Library are warmly invited to their annual gathering to thank those who have kindly chosen to leave a gift to the Library in their Will. Library Member Harriet Cullen will share insights from her biography of her mother, Lady Pamela Berry – a woman who was a bystander and protagonist across…
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Elizabeth Buccleuch Prize winner Andrew Kenrick to be published this summer
Andrew Kenrick, winner of the then Tony Lothian Prize (now Elizabeth Buccleuch Prize) will have his first biography published by Penguin in August 2026 as Rex Juba: 15 Glimpses of an African King. To pre-order your copy now, choose from the options included on Penguin’s website here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/467783/rex-juba-by-kenrick-andrew/9781911709787
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Develop your writing in the heart of Tuscany
18 – 25 APRIL 2026 OCLW have designed a bespoke programme for everyone to enjoy, from first-time writers to published authors. Led by Dr Kate Kennedy and Dr Tony Gray, tutors will be eminent writers in the fields of biography, fiction and creative non-fiction. OCLW are delighted to announce that their 2026 retreat will be…
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New member’s Byzantine history
New Biographers’ Club member Cecily Hennessy is the author most recently of Imperial and Royal Child Brides in Byzantium and Beyond (Arc Humanities Press). The book focuses on the Byzantine court in Constantinople and the young females (aged fourteen or younger) who married into the royal and imperial households of Byzantium and medieval Europe to…
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Debut novel from TLP-shortlisted Helen Bain
Helen Bain, shortlisted for the 2021 Tony Lothian prize (now the Elizabeth Buccleuch prize) with Court Green: Sylvia Plath in Devon 1961-2, has developed the material she researched for that proposal into a novel, The Daffodil Days (Bloomsbury, 12 March). At the centre of the story are Sylvia Plath and her husband Ted Hughes, described…
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Hatchards and The Biographers’ Club are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Hatchards First Biography Prize 2025
2025 SHORTLIST Crick: A Mind in Motion – From DNA to the Brain by Matthew Cobb Francis Crick was a restless, relentless thinker, as fascinated by Beat poetry and psychedelics as the genetic meaning of life and the inner workings of the brain. Yet for all his drive, he was galvanised by collaboration: with Jim Watson…
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THE WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH BUCCLEUCH PRIZE 2025 IS…
The Biographers’ Club is delighted to announce the winner of the Elizabeth Buccleuch Prize 2025. David Warren, for his proposal ‘Sir Ernest Satow: A Victorian Diplomat and the Birth of Modern Japan’. The first biography of Sir Ernest Satow (1843–1929), British diplomat, pioneer Japanologist, and eye-witness to the Meiji Restoration of 1868, which saw the…
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Clare Mulley’s book ‘Agent Zo’ is shortlisted for Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction
The biography of Genera Elżbieta Zawacka , ‘Agent Zo’, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, placed Silver in the Military History Matters magazine’s annual book prize, and has been awarded the Republic of Poland, Foreign Ministry’s first prize for best history books over the last two years! (The presentation is next week, same…
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Miranda Seymour – Winner of the Biographers’ Club Exceptional Contribution to Biography Prize 2025
Date: Tuesday 3rd February 2026 Venue: Maggs Bros, Bedford Square Time: 6:15 for 6:45 start Tickets: £12.50 from [email protected] We were delighted to give this year’s award to Miranda Seymour, author of a string of distinguished and original biographies, from her early A Ring of Conspirators about Henry James and his circle, through lives of Robert Graves, Mary Shelley and…
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Hatchards & Biographers’ Club First Biography Prize
Date: Thursday 5th MarchVenue: Hatchards, PiccadillyTime: 6:30pm- 8:30pm Tickets: Details to follow
