by authorsclub | May 25, 2022 | News, Prizes
The Authors’ Club is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2022 Best First Novel Award is Tish Delaney’s Before my Actual Heart Breaks (Hutchinson Heinemann). The guest adjudicator, novelist Alex Wheatle, presented the £2,500 award at a reception at the National...
by authorsclub | Mar 30, 2022 | News
by C. J. Schüler News of an exciting discovery. The Authors’ Club recently received an email from a member of the public informing us that she had come into possession of a collection of letters sent to Algernon Rose, the long-serving and much-loved Honorary Secretary...
by authorsclub | Mar 28, 2022 | Events, Prizes
Today, the Authors’ Club announces the shortlist for its annual Best First Novel Award. YVONNE BAILEY-SMITH, The Day I Fell off My Island (Myriad Editions) The judges commented: An evocative account of growing up in poverty in Jamaica, before settling in England in...
by authorsclub | Mar 3, 2022 | Prizes
The winner of the 2022 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year, is Colin Thubron’s The Amur River. The Amur River is almost unknown. Yet it is the tenth longest river in the world, rising in the Mongolian mountains and...
by authorsclub | Feb 28, 2022 | News, Prizes
The Authors’ Club longlist for its annual Best First Novel Award is as follows: Oana Aristide, Under the Blue (Serpent’s Tail) Yvonne Bailey-Smith, The Day I Fell off My Island (Myriad Editions) A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches (Granta Books) Charlie Carroll,...
