Previous winners of the Biographers’ Club Prize (now the Tony Lothian Biographers’ Club Prize) include:

  Lucy Jago – The Northern Lights (Hamish Hamilton)
  Adrian Fort – Prof: The Life and Times of Frederick Lindemann (Cape)
  Adrienne Gavin – Dark Horse: A Life of Anna Sewell (The History Press)
  Helen Smith – Midwife of Genius: Edward Garnett (forthcoming Cape)
  Clare Mullley – The Woman Who Saved the Children: Eglantyne Jebb (forthcoming Oneworld)
  Anna Swan - whose Statues without Shadows (Sceptre) was shortlisted for the J.R. Ackerley Prize.

Several short-listed writers also went on to be published, including Jessie Childs for Henry VIII’s Last Victim (Cape), which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography; John Higgs’ I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary (Barricade Books); Matthew Dennison’s The Last Princess (Orion); Pauline Halford’s Storm Warning (Sutton); Philip Eade’s Sylvia: Queen of the Headhunters (Orion).