Mar 20, 2023 | Prizes
The Authors’ Club is delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2023 Best First Novel Award, drawn up by a panel of Club members. Lucy Popescu, chairing the judging panel, commented: ‘We are proud to recommend six exceptional debuts. These dazzling novelists cover a...
Feb 20, 2023 | Prizes
Today, the Authors’ Club announces the longlist for the annual Best First Novel Award. The longlisted books are as follows: Sussie Anie To Fill a Yellow House (Phoenix Books) Freya Berry The Dictator’s Wife (Headline Review) James Cahill Tiepolo Blue, Sceptre (Hodder...
Feb 9, 2023 | News
In February 2022, the Authors’ Club received an email from a member of the public informing us that they had inherited a collection of letters sent to Algernon Rose, the long-serving Honorary Secretary of the Authors’ Club from 1908 to his death in 1934. Naturally, we...
Jan 30, 2023 | News
Congratulations to Authors’ Club member James Wilson, for a new book entitled Lord Denning: life, law and legacy (Wildy, Simmonds & Hill, 2023). ‘In this excellent book, James Wilson has managed to cpature both the man and the judge …’ From...
Dec 30, 2022 | News
We are very sad to report that Michael Lindsay, the Authors’ Club’s Honorary Treasurer, died peacefully on Wednesday night, at the age of 84, after a short illness. Michael was our longest-standing member, having joined in 1959, when the Club had its own premises at 2...
