Committee member Anne de Courcy’s Chanel’s Rivera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Côted’Azur, 1930-1944, was published on 13 June, 2019. Featuring a sparkling cast of artists, writers and historical figures including Winston Churchill, Daisy Fellowes, Salvador Dalí, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Eileen Gray and Edith Wharton, with the enigmatic Coco…

We are sad to record the death of Brenda Maddox, one of our most distinguished biographers, who served on our Committee for a number of years. She was particularly noted for her biographies of James Joyce’s wife Nora, which won a clutch of awards and was adapted into a film, and that of D.H. Lawrence,…

TLP Winner’s Noble Savages launched Cape and Sarah Watling launched her debut biography Noble Savages: The Olivier Sisters – Four Lives in Seven Fragments at Ink@84 bookshop in Highbury. Watling’s proposal for the book won the Biographers’ Club Tony Lothian Prize (TLP) in 2016. Watling offers a group portrait of four sisters who including Rupert Brooke, DH Lawrence…

Daisy Dunn on the Plinys Daisy Dunn has followed her acclaimed biography of Catullus with In the Shadow of Vesuvius (William Collins). She is pictured (left) with her publisher, Arabella Pike, at the launch of the book at the Panter & Hall gallery in Pall Mall. Daisy Dunn has followed her acclaimed biography of Catullus with In the Shadow…

Member Jennifer Holmes publishes new book  Matador has recently published A Working Woman: The Remarkable Life of Ray Strachey by Club Member Jennifer Holmes, whose proposal for the book was shortlisted for the Tony Lothian Prize in 2015. A leading feminist (and writer) of the early 20th century, Ray Strachey was a close colleague of both Millicent Fawcett and Nancy…

Club member Henrietta Heald, whose William Armstrong: Magician of the North was shortlisted for the Best First Biography Prize (then sponsored by HW Fisher) in 2011, has written Magnificent Women and Their Revolutionary Machines, due from Unbound on the 19th September. It is a portrait of the women, largely unrecognised, who were pioneering members of the Women’s Engineering…