by authorsclub | Feb 25, 2022 | Recommendations
It is really hard to recommend a new biography that does not look like patting on the back a friend and colleague. Obviously Jane Ridley is a master of the art where royal biography is concerned but increasingly I am turning for pleasure towards memoir more than...
by authorsclub | Feb 2, 2022 | Prizes
In partnership with the Authors’ Club, the shortlist is as follows: Fifty Sounds (Fitzcarraldo Editions) by Polly Barton Why Japan? In FIFTY SOUNDS, winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, Polly Barton attempts to exhaust her obsession with the...
by authorsclub | Jan 9, 2022 | News
Submissions for the 2022 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards are now open, including the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award in association with the Authors’ Club. Eligibility & criteria for 2022 submissions Book publication dates: Books first...
by authorsclub | Jan 6, 2022 | News
Article by Lucy Popescu, originally published in the Camden New Journal. Some of the best titles to be published early in the year. January • Louise Welsh’s The Second Cut (Canongate) is a detective story with shades of gothic that explores the dark side of 21st...
by authorsclub | Apr 26, 2021 | Prizes
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 the National Liberal...