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Committed to supporting, promoting & connecting biographers. Runs Slightly Foxed Best First Biography, Tony Lothian & Lifetime Services to Biography Prizes.

Joined November 2021
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This will be marvellous! @claremulley will be discussing #AgentZo - the incredible story of WWII resistance fighter Elżbieta Zawacka - with @annesebba, biographer of #EthelRosenberg Some tkts still available for Thursday! @BiographersThe @orionbooks
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On 25 June - the day of George Orwell's birthday - join us at @ucl to celebrate new books from @arianebankes and @djtaylorwriter which shed new light on Orwell's life and influential friends. We'll also raise a glass to the man himself! 🕘6pm 25 June 🎟️at bit.ly/orwellcircle
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Last night @arianebankes launched her memoir The Quality of Love (@Duckbooks) at @Dauntbooks bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-a… (Free to view)
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A great evening. Huge congrats to @Dannythefink for #HitlerStalinMumAndDad, & all the shortlist. Thanks to fellow judges @suegaisford & @PhilipEade, sponsor @FoxedQuarterly, @BiographersThe team inc @arianebankes & #SueRidley – at East, England
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With thanks to fellow judges @suegaisford & @PhilipEade, sponsor @FoxedQuarterly, & the @BiographersThe team inc @arianebankes & #SueRidley – at East, England
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Last night we had the pleasure of hosting the #SlightlyFoxedBestFirstBiography #prizegiving with the @BiographersThe at @MaggsBros.⁠ 📚 Thank you to Maggs, the #authors, #publishers, #judges and everyone else who came along. And congratulations to the winner @Dannythefink 🥂
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On Tuesday, @FoxedQuarterly celebrated its 20th anniversary at the Art Workers' Guild bookbrunch.co.uk/page/articl… (£)
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The book's out of the box. No going back for corrections now. @ReaktionBooks reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/dec…
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Katherine Rundell and Osman Yousefzada have won the @FoxedQuarterly Best First Biography Prize. Read here: buff.ly/3yCo42G
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The biggest of congratulations to @OSMANstudio and @canongatebooks for winning this literary prize! We fell in love with Osman's coming of age memoir in 1980s Birmingham. Enjoy a reading by the author on @Damian_Barr's #BookOfTheWeek podcast. 📚🎙️📚 open.spotify.com/episode/21N…
Slightly Foxed and The Biographers’ Club (@BiographersThe) are delighted to announce that the winners of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2022 are Katherine Rundell for Super-Infinite and Osman Yousefzada for The Go-Between 🦊📚🏆 Congratulations both! #FoxedPrize
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It’s a little over a week until we announce the winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2022 🦊📚🏆 The Shortlist: Tony Davidson, Confessions of a Highland Art Dealer (@KilmorackArt) An ambitious young art dealer transforms an abandone… instagr.am/p/CpceyCTspCr/
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More prize news for Super-Infinite, which has been shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize. Congratulations to Katherine Rundell 🎉
Together with the Biographers’ Club, we are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2022 📚🏅 This year’s judges are Alan Samson, @LucyScholes & @AnneSebba. Read more here: foxedquarterly.com/slightly-… #FoxedPrize 🧵
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We're delighted that The Mad Emperor by Harry Sidebottom is on the shortlist for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2022! #FoxedPrize
Together with the Biographers’ Club, we are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2022 📚🏅 This year’s judges are Alan Samson, @LucyScholes & @AnneSebba. Read more here: foxedquarterly.com/slightly-… #FoxedPrize 🧵
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Together with the Biographers’ Club, we are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2022 📚🏅 This year’s judges are Alan Samson, @LucyScholes & @AnneSebba. Read more here: foxedquarterly.com/slightly-… #FoxedPrize 🧵
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We are delighted to announce the 2022 shortlist for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize. Tony Davidson, Confessions of a Highland Art Dealer An ambitious young art dealer transforms an abandoned kirk in Inverness-shire into an art gallery. The… instagr.am/p/CnEv5bDt6kb/
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