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Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards Submissions Now Open

Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards Submissions Now Open

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...
Books to look out for in Jan to April 2022

Books to look out for in Jan to April 2022

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...
Best First Novel Award dinner

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 the National Liberal...
Book Launch Dinner with Laurel Lindström

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 was among the...