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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…
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Frances Wilson at Maggs
Frances Wilson (right), with Rachel Holmes chairing, gave a compelling talk at Maggs Bros about her biography Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark (Bloomsbury). The audience heard about, among other things, Spark’s ‘spookiness’ – ‘Everything that happened to her, she’d written about’; about the recurrence in her life and work of people with the…
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Save the date – Hatchards Best First Biography prize
Prize-giving on Thursday 5 March Hatchards Piccadilly.
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Jane Dismore shortlisted
Congratulations club member Jane Dismore’s book No Country for a Woman: The Adventurous Life of Lady Dorothy Mills, Explorer & Writer (The History Press, 2025) has been shortlisted in the Biography/Memoir category for the East Anglian Book Awards 2025. https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/writing-hub/eaba-shortlist-25/
