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...
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,...
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...
