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The Biographers’ Club Summer Party
Date and time: Tuesday 18th June, 6.30pm-8.30pm Venue: St Mark’s, St Mark’s Square, London NW1 7TN https://www.stmarksregentspark.org.uk/ Join us for drinks and canapés in the garden of St Mark’s, next door to Regent’s Park. We can go indoors if it’s wet. Tickets: £25 RSVP and apply for bank details (no cheques, please): [email protected].
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Ariane Bankes: The Quality of Love
Date and time: Thursday 30 MayTickets: £10 – book here Join Ariane Bankes, Biographers’ Club prizes administrator, as she discusses her sparkling memoir The Quality of Love with Cressida Connolly. When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a battered trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine. This…
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Philip Ward – Encounters with Michael Arlen
Thursday 9 May, 6.30-8pmArmenian Institute, 1 Onslow St, London EC1N 8ASBook tickets here An illustrated talk (in association with Troubador Publishing) by Philip Ward, whose proposal for what was to become Encounters with Michael Arlen was shortlisted for the Tony Lothian (now Elizabeth Buccleuch) Prize in 2017. A literary shooting star of the 1920s, Michael…
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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, following our highly successful partnership with Slightly Foxed.
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…
