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Events

Best First Novel Award Dinner

Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 7:00pm
National Liberal Club,
1 Whitehall Place, London

Authors' Club Lunch with Vesna Goldsworthy

Thursday, June 16, 2022, 12:30pm
National Liberal Club,
1 Whitehall Place, London

Authors' Club Lunch with Maggie Gee

Thursday, July 21, 2022, 12:30pm
National Liberal Club,
1 Whitehall Place, London

Forthcoming Events

Best First Novel Award Dinner

May 25, 2022
London

Inaugurated in 1954, the Best First Novel Award is now in its 68th year, making it the longest-running UK prize for debut fiction. The winner of the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award will be announced at a dinner at the National Liberal Club on 25 May 2022. The prize will be presented by this year’s guest adjudicator, novelist Alex…


Authors' Club Lunch with Vesna Goldsworthy

June 16, 2022
London

Two worlds on the brink of change in a love story doomed to disaster Milena is a Red Princess living in a Soviet Satellite state in the 1980s. She enjoys limitless luxury and limited freedom; the end of the Cold War seems unimaginable. When she meets Jason, a confident British poet, Milena is appalled by…


Authors' Club Lunch with Maggie Gee

July 21, 2022
London

The Red Children It’s the 2030s in Ramsgate and four people who don’t look quite human are found sitting, naked, in the early spring sunlight on the quay of the quiet south coast resort. The locals are puzzled – the newcomers are larger and heavier than they are and say they are fleeing the heat.…


Recent News

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 …

Longlist announced for Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2022

The Authors’ Club longlist for its annual Best First Novel Award is as follows: Oana Aristide, Under the Blue (Serpent’s Tail) Yvonne Bailey-Smith, The Day I Fell off My Island (Myriad Editions) A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches (Granta Books)  C …

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