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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
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Trouble-Maker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford
Date and Time: March 25th 2026, 6.30pm Venue: Hatchards, 187 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LETickets: https://carlakaplanathatchards.eventbrite.co.uk/Carla Kaplan will be in conversation with Helena Kennedy about her vivid and amusing biography of Jessica Mitford, the remarkable sister who ran away to the Spanish Civil War and settled as a Communist in America, becoming ‘Queen of the Muckrakers’ in the course…
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Authors’ Club: Sara Wheeler
Date and time: Wednesday 22 April, 7pmVenue: National Liberal ClubTickets: Apply here The club is delighted to join forces for the first time with the Authors’ Club to welcome the travel writer and biographer Sara Wheeler to discuss her authorised biography of fellow travel writer Jan Morris. Publication coincides with the centenary of Jan Morris’ birth. When…
