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A Life in Pieces? Robert Douglas-Fairhurst in conversation with Jane Ridley
Date: Tuesday 4th JulyVenue: Hatchards, PiccadillyTime: 6.30pmBooking: Details to follow Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, prize-winning biographer of Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll, fell into a looking-glass world of his own one day when unsteadiness and a sudden fall pitched him down a trapdoor into the world of the chronically unwell. Diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis, he felt his body was…
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The Biographers’ Club Summer Party!
Date and time: Tuesday 20th June, 6.30pm-8.30pm Venue: St Mary’s, Cadogan Street, London SW3 2QP 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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Adventures in Indexing – with Dennis DuncanHatchards PiccadillyWednesday 24 May, 6.30pm
In the first of a new series of events in collaboration with Hatchards, we are thrilled to welcome Dennis Duncan, author of Index, A History of the, in conversation with Tanya Izzard, Managing Director of the Society of Indexers, and hosted by Sarah Anderson. Praise has flowed for Dennis Duncan’s Index, A history of the: A Bookish…
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Biographers’ Club Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2023 is launched!
We are open for submissions for this year’s Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, generously sponsored by Slightly Foxed. We are delighted to have the following judges: Philip Eade is the author of three biographies, Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters (2007), Young Prince Philip (2011) and Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited (2016), all of which…
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Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize and Shortlist
Date: Tuesday 14th March 2023. Time: 6.15pm for 6.30pm to 8pm
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AN Wilson wins Exceptional Contribution award – come and hear him in conversation with Jane Ridley
Date: Thursday 26th January Time: 6.30pm Price: £12.50
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Catherine Haig wins Tony Lothian Prize 2022
Congratulations to Catherine Haig, who has won the £2,000 Tony Lothian Prize, for a proposal for an uncommissioned biography, for An Unfinished Life – Lady Gwendolen Cecil (1860–1945). Haig received the prize at the Biographers’ Club Christmas party, held at Albany, London. Haig’s proposal is about Lord Salisbury’s second daughter, who took on the daunting…
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Philip Ward, shortlisted for the Tony Lothian Prize is 2017 for a proposed biography of Michael Arlen, has written two new titles
Laura Nyro On Track: Every Album Every Song (Sonicbond)Laura Nyro (1947-1997) was one of the most significant figures to emerge from the singer-songwriter boom of the 1960s. She first came to attention when her songs were hits for Barbra Streisand, The Fifth Dimension, Peter, Paul and Mary, and others. But it was on her own…
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TLP winner’s Doris Hare biography published
Kate Crehan’s But Will It Get A Laugh? The Life of Doris Hare in Three Acts, the proposal for which won the Biographers’ Club Tony Lothian Prize in 2020, is just out from the Society of Theatre Research. The title is the society’s annual publication, sent to members as part of the subscription package. The blurb: ‘Doris was…
