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Forthcoming Events

Authors’ Club Lunch with Nicola Williams

January 15, 2026
London

We are delighted to welcome Nicola Williams to the Authors’ Club to talk about Killer Instinct, her twisty new legal thriller starring underdog barrister Lee Mitchell. When the Head Clerk at her Chambers is murdered, Lee Mitchell doesn’t know who she can trust. One of the last people to see him alive, the crime is pinned…

Authors’ Club Lunch with Andrew Lownie

February 19, 2026
London

We are thrilled to welcome Andrew Lownie to the Authors’ Club to talk about Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, the unauthorised biography of Prince Andrew, Duke of York and Sarah, Duchess of York. The House of York has seen its fair share of scandal. Still living in the same house, Prince Andrew and…

Recent News

Hallie Rubenhold at the Authors’ Club

By Suzi Feay Social historian Hallie Rubenhold has followed up her pioneering account of Jack the Ripper’s victims, ‘The Five’, with an in depth new look at the case of gambler, fraudster and wife-murderer Dr Crippen. Rubenhold centres female victims r …

Members’ News

Authors’ Club member Stephanie Williams’ The Education of Girls: Coming of age in 4 years that changed America 1966-1970 is published this month. This is the story of how the Vietnam war, racial strife and the birth of women’s liberation fundamentally …

Remembering Jilly Cooper

By John Walsh The news of Jilly Cooper’s death on 5 October was covered, in the 24 hours that followed, with the kind of comprehensive admiration usually reserved for a fondly-recalled member of royalty. Not only did every newspaper carry her image on …

Marina Warner at the Authors’ Club

We were thrilled to welcome the distinguished cultural historian, academic and fiction writer Dame Marina Warner to a well-attended lunch. Marina’s many award-winning books include Alone of All her Sex: The myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary, and Joan of …

Apologies for Absence – Remembering Geoff Gudgion

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 k …

Congratulations to the Booker Prize nominees

We are thrilled to see Claire Adam, winner of the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award (BFNA) in 2020, on this year’s Booker Prize longlist for her quietly compelling second novel Love Forms (Faber). Claire was our lunch speaker in June, interviewed by …

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