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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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The Biographers Club Summer Party!
Date and time: Tuesday 1st July, 6.30pm-8.30pmVenue: St Mary’s Rectory, Draycott Terrace, Chelsea, SW3 2BG Join us for drinks and canapés in the garden of St Mary’s, a Grade II-listed Catholic church in Chelsea. There is a marquee in case of rain. Tickets: £25 RSVP and apply for bank details (no cheques, please): [email protected]
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Francesca Wade, Adrian Clark at Hatchards
5th June, 6.30pmHatchards, 187 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LE Come and hear Francesca Wade, author of Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, in conversation with Adrian Clark, co-author of Irascible: The Combative Life of Douglas Cooper, Collector and Friend of Picasso. Francesca Wade is the author of the acclaimed Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the…
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Dr. Koop: The Many Lives of the Surgeon General
Weds, May 21st, from 6.30 p.m., at the Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street You are invited to join the launch of the first biography of Dr C Everett Koop, by Biographers’ Club member Nigel Cameron. Dr Koop was the world’s most famous paediatric surgeon before President Reagan made him US Surgeon General in…
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Booksellers’ Tales at Hatchards
Sarah Anderson and Martin LathamTuesday, 18 February, 6.30pmHatchards Piccadilly Sarah Anderson, founder of the Travel Bookshop in Notting Hill, explains how she set up the shop and how THE film changed things. Martin Latham, the longest-serving bookseller at Waterstones and author of The Bookseller’s Tale, takes us on a journey through comfort reads, street book…
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Sue Prideaux in conversation with Laura Hassan
The Biographers’ Club is very excited that Sue Prideaux will give a talk at Hatchards on Wednesday 19 March about her recent book Wild Thing – A Life of Paul Gauguin. She will be in conversation with Laura Hassan, her editor at Faber, and we will find out how a book comes into being –…
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Exceptional Contribution winner 2024: Lucy Hughes-Hallett at Maggs Bros
Tuesday 14 January The Biographers’ Club is delighted that its 2024 Exceptional Contribution to Biography Prize goes to Lucy Hughes-Hallett, whose many ground-breaking and acclaimed books include The Pike, a biography of Gabriele D’Annunzio that won the Samuel Johnson, Costa and Duff Cooper prizes. Most recently, she has published The Scapegoat, a reassessment of George…
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Christmas Party and Elizabeth Buccleuch Prize
Join us for drinks and nibbles at our Christmas party, and for the presentation of the Elizabeth Buccleuch Prize, given for the best proposal by a first-time biographer. When: Wednesday 11 December, 6.30pm to 8.30pm Where: E6 Albany, Piccadilly, London W1J OAR. Tickets: £20 (members and guests). PLEASE PAY BY BANK TRANSFER OR THROUGH YOUR BRANCH. Book and…
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Clare Mulley at Hatchards
When: 6.30pm, Thursday 12 September Where: Hatchards, 187 Piccadilly London W1J 9LE Tickets: £10 (£5 for Biographers’ Club members) through Eventbrite here Clare Mulley will be in conversation about her highly acclaimed new book Agent Zo with biographer Anne Sebba, author of Ethel Rosenberg, Les Parisiennes and That Woman. Agent Zo tells the incredible story…
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Darren Coffield at the French House
Darren Coffield is to give a talk, ‘Queens of Bohemia: Fabled Femmes of the French House’, at the French House in Soho on Monday, 24 June. The event is free, and starts at 6.30pm. www.frenchhousesoho.com/; [email protected]. The talk is based on Coffield’s latest book, Queens of Bohemia and Other Miss-fits (History Press), which has a…
