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Longlist for Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2025

Longlist for Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2025

Feb 24, 2025 | Prizes

Today, the Authors’ Club announces the longlist for the annual Best First Novel Award, now in its 71st year.  The longlisted books are as follows:  Colin Barrett Wild Houses (Jonathan Cape)  Mark Bowles All My Precious Madness (Galley Beggar Press) Kaliane Bradley The...

Ben Macintyre at The Authors’ Club

Feb 22, 2025 | Lunches

By Suzy Feay The David Lloyd George Room was packed on Thursday 16 January for Ben Macintyre’s lunchtime talk about his latest book, ‘The Siege’, the inside story of the assault on the Iranian Embassy in London that took place in May 1980. After days of tense...

Mishal Husain at The Authors’ Club

Dec 21, 2024 | Lunches

Five minutes into the Authors Club lunch on December 12, an elderly man sidled over to the top table and stood like a nervous waiter behind the guest speaker, Mishal Husain. On receiving an encouraging raised eyebrow, he handed her a piece of paper showing his name....

John Sweeney at the Authors’ Club

Dec 8, 2024 | Lunches

On 21 November at the National Liberal Club in London, the veteran investigative  journalist and author John Sweeney addressed a packed audience of Authors’ Club and NLC Ukrainian Circle members about his latest book, Murder in the Gulag: The Life and Death of Alexei...

The Bald Monkey By Dickon Levinge

Nov 14, 2024 | Member News

Authors’ Club member Dickon Levinge has released his new book about a group of friends on the edge of society, sobriety and sanity. And the pub that they drink in. An anarchic black comedy of denial, anger, obsession, revenge and extremely poor judgement. Seven...