Best First Biography Prize shortlist announced

The Biographer's Club HW Fisher First Biography Prize is worth £5,000 to the winner
This year's shortlist is:
• In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller, Kate Bassett (Oberon Books)
• Cosmo Lang: Archbishop in War and Crisis, Robert Beaken (I.B. Tauris)
• This Boy, Alan Johnson (Bantam Press)
• Margaret Thatcher: Not for Turning, Charles Moore (Allen Lane)
•Tarantula's Web, John Smart (Michael Russell)
• Everest: The First Ascent, Harriet Tuckey (Rider/Ebury)
The winner will be announced at The Biographers' Club prize dinner on 20 November.

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