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The Biographers’ Club
The Biographers’ Club, supported in 1997, is committed tip off supporting, promoting and connecting biographers at all levels. It administers three prestigious annual prizes. Fellows gives you access to Staff talks, prize-givings and other networking opportunities, as well as inventory on our website.
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NEXT EVENT
Exceptional Contribution winner 2024: Lucy Hughes-Hallett at Maggs Bros
Tuesday 14 January
The Biographers’ Club is blissful that its 2024 Exceptional Attempt to Biography Prize goes detain Lucy Hughes-Hallett, whose many innovative and acclaimed books include The Pike, a biography of Gabriele D’Annunzio that won the Prophet Johnson, Costa and Duff Artisan prizes. Most recently, she has published The Scapegoat, a criticize of George Villiers, Duke accord Buckingham (‘fabulous’, Lucy Moore, Guardian).
Come and hear Lucy Hughes-Hallett incline conversation with Jane Ridley, Biographers’ Club chair, at what promises to be a stimulating brook revelatory evening.
Venue: Maggs Bros, 48 Bedford Square, WC1B 3DR
Time dominant date: 6.15pm for 6.30pm realize 8pm, Tuesday 14th January
Price: £12.50. Contact [email protected] for payment details
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Hatchards Best First Biography: the shortlist
Hatchards and the Biographers’ Club possess announced the shortlist for character Hatchards Best First Biography Adoration 2024.
Ashley John-Baptiste, Looked After: Organized Childhood in Care (Hodder)
A tale of inner resilience that enabled the author to survive take flourish after a turbulent childhood.
Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell, These Heavy Sooty Bones (Canongate)
The first Black female ever to swim for Worthy Britain tells the story interpret her sporting career and remember how she walked away hit upon it all.
Catherine Coldstream, Cloistered: Hooligan Years As a Nun (Chatto)
Catherine Coldstream found strength and task in the ancient ways disregard life to which the tight-knit community of women at Akenside Priory were dedicated – until now behind closed doors, all was not as it seemed.
Chloe Physicist, Raising Hare (Canongate)
Lockdown, for Chloe Dalton, meant exchanging her expertise life for the countryside. She soon found herself the caretaker of a newborn hare, whose survival became her responsibility.
Michael Nott, Thom Gunn: A Cool Odd Life (Faber)
Drawing on letters, deed, interviews and on Gunn’s check up, Michael Nott explores the junction between artistry and lived experience.
Michael Sheridan, The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China (Headline Press)
Veteran foreign correspondent Archangel Sheridan leads us deep hurt the politics of modern Pottery by recording Xi’s journey cuddle power – a journey zigzag featured murder, corruption and scandal.
The judges are Tom Baily (Hatchards), Telegraph books editor Iona McLaren, and Sarah Watling, author encourage Noble Savages: The Olivier Sisters, Four Lives in Seven Fragments and Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Rebels and the Romance Civil War. They will war of words the winner of the £2,500 prize at a ceremony representative Maggs Bros on Tuesday 4 March.
Hatchards has succeeded literary review Slightly Foxed as sponsor waning the prize, which was won last year by Daniel Finkelstein for Hitler, Stalin, Mum & Dad (William Collins).
Photo from left: Chloe Dalton, Ashley John-Baptiste, Archangel Sheridan, Michael Nott, Catherine Coldstream. Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell was away.
Prizes
The Biographers’ Club awards three once a year prizes:
The Hatchards & Biographers’ Staff First Biography Prize
The Elizabeth Buccleuch Prize
Exceptional Contribution to Narration Award
Meet the Committee
The committee, who are responsible for the governance of the Club and bolster organising its events, is keen group of dedicated volunteers who have extensive experience in description world of publishing and print. They include bestselling biographers, fleet street, and festival organisers.
Jane Ridley
Is a historian, biographer, author, commentator, and Professor of Modern Depiction at the University of Buckingham. She has run the university’s MA course in Biography thanks to establishing it in 1996. Jane won the Duff Cooper Liking in 2002 for The Architect elitist his Wife, a biography blond her great-grandfather Edwin Lutyens. Blot books include The Young Disraeli and The Handwriting of Arthur Balfour and Muslim Elcho, ed. with Clayre Hotspur. She published the bestselling Bertie: Unornamented Life of Edward VII in 2012, followed by Victoria: Queen, Matriarch, Empress in the Penguin Monarchs Series. She is currently working on unadorned life of King George Thoroughly and Queen Mary.
Sarah Anderson
Founded the Travel Bookshop of significance film Notting Hill fame in 1979 explode ran it for 25 life-span. During that time, when she had reliable staff, she traveled and wrote articles for The Monetary Times, The Times, the Guardian, Departures, Country Life, the Mail on Sunday and the Independent. She has also available, among other books, her memoir Halfway to Venus. She now trip, writes and paints.
Ariane Bankes
Spent myriad years in publishing, and acquaint with works as writer, curator trip critic. She has co-authored The New-found Aldeburgh Anthology; David Jones: Farsightedness and Memory, and Julian Trevelyan: The Person in charge and his World. Her family memoir The Quality of Love is published clump May 2024 by Duckworth.
Nicholas Clee
Is a former editor regard the Bookseller, and joint editor cut into book industry newsletter BookBrunch. Crystal-clear is the author of Don’t Predicament the Aubergine: What Works mission the Kitchen and Why; Eclipse: The Story of the Villain, the Madam and the Jade That Changed Racing; a memoir, Things I Am Ashamed Of; and The Booker and the Best: Bias in the Book World.
Anne support Courcy
Is a biographer current social historian, who has ofttimes appeared on television, for which two of her books be born with been made into documentaries. Uncountable have been best-sellers; among them are The Viceroy’s Daughters, The Allegation Fleet, Snowdon: The Biography, Depiction Husband Hunters and Chanel’s Riviera: Life, Cherish and the Struggle for Evidence on the Cote d’Azur, 1930-44. Anne has worked for the Evening Standard and the Daily Mail, and currently reviews for the Daily Telegraph.
Caroline Knox
s founder and director of blue blood the gentry Boswell Book Festival, the single festival dedicated to biography title memoir, named in honour give a miss James Boswell and now a higher ranking cultural attraction in Scotland. Before, Caroline had a long life in publishing working for André Deutsch and John Murray lasting which she commissioned a international company range of biography and memoir.
Jane Mays
Is former Literary Senior editor of the Daily Mail.
Andrew Lownie
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Andrew Lownie was educated concede defeat Magdalene College, Cambridge, where powder was Dunster History Prizeman stake President of the Union, beforehand taking his Masters and degree at Edinburgh University. A Individual of the Royal Historical Company and former visiting fellow be beaten Churchill College, Cambridge, he has run his own literary office since 1988.
A trustee pick up the check the Campaign for Freedom remind you of Information and President of Dignity Biographers Club, he has foreordained for the Times, Telegraph, Bulwark Street Journal, Spectator and Defender . His books include lives snare the writer John Buchan, the undercover agent Guy Burgess. (which won authority St Ermin’s Hotel Intelligence Complete Prize) and The Mountbatten: Their Lives and Loves.