I am the author of three books (so far…) on Clubland, all of them still in print. 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.
I have also been working on two private commissions, both of them histories of individual clubs, which are both due for publication in 2027. Further details will be announced in due course.
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
[London Clubland is available in hardback, paperback 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 amusing 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
[Behind Closed Doors is 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
[Club Government is available in hardback and e-book.]
I have also contributed to other books on Clubland, including a chapter in the 250th anniversary history of Brooks’s, published in 2013; while my advice/feedback has often been credited in the acknowledgements of recent Clubland books, including in David Mann & Marcus Binney’s Boodle’s: Celebrating 250 Years (2012), Stephen Hoare’s Palaces of Power (2019), and Andrew Jones & Laura Hodgson’s The London Club (2026).
For a fuller list of my various publications, please see this page on my personal website.