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Authors’ Club Lunch with Michèle Roberts – 19 August, 12:30pm
Michèle Roberts is the author of fourteen critically acclaimed novels, including Daughters of the House, which won the WHSmith Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Ignorance, which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Impac … Continue reading
The Authors’ Club 2021 Best First Novel Award Winner Announced
The Authors’ Club is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2021 Best First Novel Award is Ingrid Persaud’s Love after Love (Faber). The guest adjudicator, novelist Michèle Roberts, presented the £2,500 award at a reception at the National … Continue reading
Authors’ Club Lunch with Sue Gee – Thurs 15 July
With restrictions due to be lifted on 21 June, we shall be cautiously resuming live events at the National Liberal Club with the Best First Novel award dinner on 30 June, and our first Club Lunch in fifteen months at … Continue reading
Best First Novel Award dinner
We are delighted that we will once again be able to meet in person when the winner of the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award is announced, and the prize presented, by this year’s guest adjudicator, the novelist Michèle Roberts, at a dinner at … Continue reading
Book Launch Dinner with Laurel Lindström
With indoor hospitality venues reopening on 17 May, we are delighted to announce our first live events in more than a year, the launch of Laurel Lindström’s debut novel The Draftsman (below) and the 2021 Best First Novel Award. The Authors’ Club … Continue reading
Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2021
This year’s books for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year, in association with the Authors’ Club, were selected for their innovative and/or literary merit with content which is relevant, useful or inspiring to travellers. Watch the video below … Continue reading
Shortlist announced for Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2021
Today, the Authors’ Club announces the shortlist for its annual Best First Novel Award. ELLEN ALPSTEN, Tsarina (Bloomsbury) The judges commented: A compelling blend of fact and fiction that creates a memorable portrait of the rise of Catherine I of Russia in … Continue reading
Longlist announced for Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2021
Today, the Authors’ Club announces the longlist for the annual Best First Novel Award. The longlisted books are as follows: Shahnaz Ahsan Hashim & Family (John Murray) Molly Aitken The Island Child (Canongate) Ellen Alpsten Tsarina (Bloomsbury Publishing) Rosanna … Continue reading
Stanfords Relaunches Dolman Travel Book Award
We are delighted to announce that Stanfords, the world’s largest travel bookshop, will relaunch the Dolman Travel Book Award and double the prize to £5,000. The renamed Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year, in association with the Authors’ Club, … Continue reading
ART BOOK PRIZE 2014 SHORT LIST ANNOUNCED
14/12/14 The short list for the Art Book Prize 2014 has been announced by the judges Giles Waterfield, Mark Jones, Daniel Hermann, and Joanna Woodall. The shortlist was selected from an extraordinary long list of twenty titles covering a range … Continue reading