Join us for wine and nibbles at our Christmas party, and for the presentation of the Tony Lothian Prize.

For our members their book is not complete without an index and for most readers, it’s essential to their full enjoyment of the book. Charting the index’s curious path from the monasteries and universities of thirteenth-century Europe to Silicon Valley in the twenty-first, writer, translator and lecturer in English at UCL, Dennis Duncan, reveals how the index…

The Biographers’ Club is delighted to welcome Miranda Seymour, one of the foremost biographers of our time, to discuss her life of Jean Rhys, author of The Wide Sargasso Sea. Seymour will be in conversation with Rachel Cooke, journalist and author of Her Brilliant Career, shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize. An obsessive and troubled genius,…

Wednesday 15 June, 6.30pm-8.30pm, at Clementi HouseJoin us for drinks and canapés in the beautiful garden of an 18th-century house, graced by the spirits of Muzio Clementi and Felix Mendelssohn, in Kensington. Venue: Clementi House, 128 Kensington Church Street, London W8 4BH Tickets: £20 RSVP and apply for bank details (no cheques, please): [email protected] Clementi House was the London home of…

About this event Join biographer Anne de Courcy for an evening in celebration of her brand new book “Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: the Paris life of Nancy Cunard”. Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said to have inspired half the…

We are delighted to announce that Matthew Parris – former MP, now columnist and author, and presenter of Radio 4’s Great Lives – is the winner of the Biographers’ Club’s Exceptional Contribution to Biography award. At this special event, he will be in conversation with Evan Davies, presenter of Radio 4’s PM. Date and time: Tuesday, 5 April, 18:30Venue:…

We shall announce the winner of the 2021 Best First Biography Prize, generously sponsored by Slightly Foxed with a winner’s purse of £2,500, at Maggs Bros, 48 Bedford Square, on Tuesday 8th March. The shortlist is:Windswept: Walking in the Footsteps of Remarkable Women by Annabel Abbs (Two Roads)Will She Do? Act One of a Life on…

In collaboration with Hatchards, we are thrilled to welcome Anne Sebba and Clare Mulley in conversation about Sebba’s acclaimed Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy. Date and time: Monday 7 February 2022, 18:30. Venue: Hatchards, 187 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LE Tickets: £8 for Biographers’ Club members (£10 for non-members). Book through Eventbrite here.