Books

I am the author of three major books on Clubland. Details are below, with links to where you can buy them, direct from the publishers - or else they should be available from all good booksellers.

London Clubland: A Companion for the Curious (London: Robinson/Little, Brown, 2025), 448pp.
My most recent book, this is a comprehensive guide to London Clubland today. The first half offers a detailed club-by-club guide to some 133 establishments, old and new; while the second half is a deep dive into everything on club culture - even things you didn’t know that you wanted to know…

“Seth Alexander Thévoz’s witty guide...a cheerfully eccentric introduction to London clubland...enormously entertaining...There’s a great deal of practical information here as well...Thévoz makes a persuasive case as to why you should join one.” Sunday Times

[Available in hardback and e-book.]

Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members’ Clubs (London: Robinson/Little, Brown, 2022), 403pp.

A best-selling, critically-acclaimed popular history of London clubs, explaining how and why Clubland evolved into its current shape. Based on years of archival research, with plenty of mythbusting along the way - not to mention plenty of funny stories.

“Despite the vastness of its ambition, Behind Closed Doors serves as a well-researched one-stop introduction to the complex social history of the club.” The Spectator

[Available in hardback, paperback, e-book, and Audible audiobook read by the author.]

Club Government: How the Early Victorian World was Ruled from London Clubs (London: I. B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2018), 335pp.

This is where it all started: an academic monograph, adapted from my 2014 PhD thesis on ‘The Political Impact of London Clubs, 1832-1868’, looking at how the British political system was rebuilt around clubs, between the first two Reform Acts.

“A fascinating forensic study of the period’s networks of power.” Ian Hislop

[Available in hardback and e-book.]