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Events

Authors' Club Lunch with Sam Knight

Thursday, September 15, 2022, 12:30pm
National Liberal Club,
1 Whitehall Place, London

Authors' Club Lunch with Miranda Seymour

Thursday, October 20, 2022, 12:30pm
National Liberal Club,
1 Whitehall Place, London

Author's Club Lunch with Louisa Young

Thursday, November 24, 2022, 12:30pm
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Forthcoming Events

Authors' Club Lunch with Sam Knight

September 15, 2022
London

The story of a strange experiment – a journey into the oddest corners of 60s Britain and the outer edges of science and reason. Premonitions are impossible. But they come true all the time. You think of a forgotten friend. Out of the blue, they call. But what if you knew that something terrible was…


Authors' Club Lunch with Miranda Seymour

October 20, 2022
London

An intimate, revealing and profoundly moving biography of Jean Rhys, acclaimed author of Wide Sargasso Sea. An obsessive and troubled genius, Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling and unnerving writers of the twentieth century. Memories of a conflicted Caribbean childhood haunt the four fictions that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile…


Author's Club Lunch with Louisa Young

November 24, 2022

For our November lunch, we are delighted to welcome Louisa Young to talk about her latest novel, Twelve Months and a Day, published by Borough Press in June 2022. Rasmus and Jay, Róisín and Nico – two beautiful, ordinary love stories, cut short by death. Jay and Nico don’t even believe in ghosts, yet they seem to…


Recent News

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 …

Heritage lost and found

by C. J. Schüler News of an exciting discovery. The Authors’ Club recently received an email from a member of the public informing us that she had come into possession of a collection of letters sent to Algernon Rose, the long-serving and much-loved Ho …

A collection of letters from Hardy, Kipling and others in a 1920s hosiery box

Shortlist announced for Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2022

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 …

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 …

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