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Key Dates for The Best First Novel Award 2023

Key Dates for The Best First Novel Award 2023

Key Dates 2023 Longlist February 2023 Shortlist March 2023 The winner will be announced at a dinner at the National Liberal Club: Wed 24 May 2023 About the Prize: The winning novel is selected by this year’s guest adjudicator Louisa Young from a shortlist drawn up by...
Winner of the 2022 Best First Novel Award

Winner of the 2022 Best First Novel Award

The Authors’ Club is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2022 Best First Novel Award is Tish Delaney’s Before my Actual Heart Breaks (Hutchinson Heinemann). The guest adjudicator, novelist Alex Wheatle, presented the £2,500 award at a reception at the National...

2022 Stanford Dolman Travel Award Winner Announced

The winner of the 2022 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year, is Colin Thubron’s The Amur River. The Amur River is almost unknown. Yet it is the tenth longest river in the world, rising in the Mongolian mountains and...