Author Polly Toynbee will be in conversation with biographer Anne Chisholm about her latest book An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals.  The event takes place on Wednesday 6th September at Hatchards, 6.30pm. “Social class is a great national obsession and it lies at the heart of every family story …” Prominent social commentator Polly Toynbee…

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…

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]

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…

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:…