Feb 26, 2024 | Prizes
Today, the Authors’ Club announces the longlist for the annual Best First Novel Award, now in its 70th year. The longlisted books are as follows: Santanu Bhattacharya One Small Voice (Fig Tree) Stephen Buoro The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa (Bloomsbury...
Jul 24, 2023 | News
Like many others, we were deeply saddened to learn of the death of the broadcaster and writer George Alagiah on 24 July. His novel The Burning Land (Canongate), a political thriller set in modern-day South Africa, was shortlisted for the our Best First Novel Award in...
Jun 6, 2023 | News
Martin Amis was a one-man multiverse. A cool, sulkily unsmiling, hilariously ironical, perma-smoking, laser-brained novelist, critic, essayist, media pundit and reliable controversialist, he took the English language to new levels of baroque extravagance. He turned...
May 24, 2023 | Prizes
The Authors’ Club is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2023 Best First Novel Award is Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s When We Were Birds (Hamish Hamilton). The guest adjudicator, novelist Louisa Young, presented the £2,500 award at a reception at the National Liberal...
Apr 15, 2023 | Events
Meet four of the shortlisted writers of the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2023, the longest-running UK prize for debut fiction and the second oldest literary prize in Britain. Previous winners have included Brian Moore, Alan Sillitoe, Diran Adebayo, Jackie Kay,...
