Nov 1, 2026 | In Memoriam
By Chris Schuler We were saddened to learn of the death in July of the distinguished broadcaster and foreign correspondent Edward Stourton. Just three months earlier, he had joined us for our April lunch to talk about his latest – and sadly his last – book Made in...
Feb 15, 2026 | In Memoriam
By Nigel C. Winter The Authors’ Club has already written a touching tribute to our friend Geoff Gudgion. However, the duration of my brief association with Geoff followed a very particular course. During that time, I bore witness to the esteem in which he was...
Dec 14, 2025 | In Memoriam
Words by Chris Schuler These days, the figures who have loomed large in our cultural lives seem to be disappearing one by one. On the last weekend of November, I was saddened to learn that the playwright Tom Stoppard had died, aged 88. His work has inspired me...
Aug 18, 2025 | In Memoriam
Words by Laurel Lindström We’ve lost a wonderful colleague and friend, the author Geoff Gudgion, to a devastating disease that took a mere few weeks to claim him. So how do we say we miss you? How do we say we’re so sorry to his family, when we don’t know them? How do...
May 11, 2025 | In Memoriam
We were saddened by the news last week that the novelist Jane Gardam had died. She was 96 years old. Born Jean Pearson in Redcar on the North Yorkshire coast in 1928, where her father was a teacher, Gardam moved to London after the Second World War to read English at...
Jul 24, 2023 | In Memoriam
Like many others, we were deeply saddened to learn of the death of the broadcaster and writer George Alagiah on 24 July. His novel The Burning Land (Canongate), a political thriller set in modern-day South Africa, was shortlisted for the our Best First Novel Award in...
