Jun 9, 2026 | Lunches
It seemed mordantly appropriate that we welcomed Daniel Trilling to the Authors’ Club to discuss his latest book If We Tolerate This: How the British Establishment Made the Far Right Respectable exactly a week after Reform UK’s gains in the local elections. Trilling...
May 20, 2026 | Prizes
The Authors’ Club is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2026 Best First Novel Award is Christina Fonthes’s Where You Go, I Will Go (Tinder Press) This year’s guest adjudicator, the biographer, historian and journalist Anne Sebba, presented the £2,500 award at...
Mar 23, 2026 | Prizes
The Authors’ Club is delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2026 Best First Novel Award, now in its 72nd year. Lucy Popescu, chairing the judging panel, commented: “We are delighted to announce our shortlist of six thrilling debuts. These talented novelists...
Mar 14, 2026 | Lunches
In his welcome speech, Authors Club president John Walsh joked about how ‘news responsive’ we were in getting Andrew Lownie to talk about his book ‘Entitled: The rise and fall of the house of York’. It was the very day Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested under...
Feb 23, 2026 | Prizes
Today, the Authors’ Club announces the longlist for the annual Best First Novel Award, now in its 72nd year. The longlisted books are as follows: Rupert Dastur Cloudless (Fig Tree) Christina Fonthes Where You Go, I Will Go (Tinder Press) Connor Hutchinson Dead Lucky...
