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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
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 Hatchards & Biographers’ Club First Biography Prize, the first 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 years by Daniel Finkelstein, Katherine Rundell and Osman Yousefzada, Lea Ypi, Heather Clark, Jonathan Phillips, Bart van Es, Edmund Gordon and Hisham Matar. The judges for 2024 will be: Tom Baily has worked at Hatchards bookshop…
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Four’s a Crowd? The onward march of group biography
Date and time: Wednesday 17 April, 6.30pmVenue: Hatchards, 187 Piccadilly, St. James’s, London W1J 9LEBooking: Through Eventbrite. See here The Biographers’ Club and Hatchards present three writers who have recently published group biographies to discuss the opportunities and pitfalls of this genre. What are the challenges of writing a group biography? What are the advantages? Does the theme…
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The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2023 winner is Daniel Finkelstein for Hitler, Stalin, Mum & Dad
Slightly Foxed and The Biographers’ Club are delighted to announce that the winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2023 is Daniel Finkelstein for Hitler, Stalin, Mum & Dad. From left to right: Sue Gaisford (judge), Arabella Pike (Daniel Finkelstein’s publisher at William Collins), Gail Pirkis (Slightly Foxed), Clare Mulley (judge) THE PRIZE 2023 SHORTLIST…
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Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize – the prize-giving and shortlist
The Biographers’ Club Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize for 2023 will be awarded at a party at Maggs Bros, 48 Bedford Square, on Tuesday 19th March. Come and meet the shortlisted authors, and find out who has won. Venue: Maggs Bros, 48 Bedford Square, WC1B 3DR Time and date: 6.15pm for 6.30pm to 8pm, Tuesday 19th March Price:…
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TLP is now the Elizabeth Buccleuch Prize
The Tony Lothian Prize, for the best proposal by a first time biographer, has been renamed the Elizabeth Buccleuch Prize. The change follows the death last year of the Duchess of Buccleuch, who founded the prize in memory of her mother, Antonella (“Tony”) Lothian. The Duke of Buccleuch is continuing to support the £2,000 prize…
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Anne de Courcy at Hatchards
Tuesday 23rd January, 6.30pm We are delighted to announce that Anne de Courcy, a past Chairman of the Club and still a stalwart member of the committee, is this year’s recipient of our Outstanding Contribution to Biography award. Do come and help us congratulate Anne as she discusses her distinguished, colourful career as journalist and biographer with…
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Slightly Foxed and The Biographers’ Club are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2023
This is the 10th year that Slightly Foxed – publishers of the literary journal Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Quarterly and an acclaimed list of limited-edition cloth-bound memoirs, and producers of the well-loved literary podcast – has sponsored the Prize. The Prize awards £2,500 to the judges’ choice of the best first biography published each…
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Anthony Adolph – In Search of Aeneas (Zoom event)
Wednesday 10 January, 6.15pm Biographers’ Club member Anthony Adolph’s new book is In Search of Aeneas (Amberley), in which he provides the fullest biographical portrait to date of the reputed founder of Rome, through an exploration of the many myths surrounding him. Come and hear, via Zoom, Adolph discuss writing the biographies of mythological characters, particularly Aeneas…
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Anne de Courcy wins Exceptional Contribution to Biography Award
The Biographers’ Club has given its Exceptional Contribution to Biography award to Anne de Courcy. She received the award at the Biographers’ Club Christmas Party at Albany. Jane Ridley, chair of the club, marvelled that de Courcy, who had led a busy life as a journalist, could also have produced 11 biographies. She cited in…