Daniel Trilling at the Authors’ Club

Jun 9, 2026 | Lunches

It seemed mordantly appropriate that we welcomed Daniel Trilling to the Authors’ Club to discuss his latest book If We Tolerate This: How the British Establishment Made the Far Right Respectable exactly a week after Reform UK’s gains in the local elections. Trilling...

The Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award Winner 2026

May 20, 2026 | Prizes

The Authors’ Club is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2026 Best First Novel Award is Christina Fonthes’s Where You Go, I Will Go (Tinder Press) This year’s guest adjudicator, the biographer, historian and journalist Anne Sebba, presented the £2,500 award at...

Shortlist for the 2026 Best First Novel Award

Mar 23, 2026 | Prizes

The Authors’ Club is delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2026 Best First Novel Award, now in its 72nd year. Lucy Popescu, chairing the judging panel, commented: “We are delighted to announce our shortlist of six thrilling debuts. These talented novelists...

Andrew Lownie at The Authors’ Club

Mar 14, 2026 | Lunches

In his welcome speech, Authors Club president John Walsh joked about how ‘news responsive’ we were in getting Andrew Lownie to talk about his book ‘Entitled: The rise and fall of the house of York’. It was the very day Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested under...

Longlist announced for Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2026

Feb 23, 2026 | Prizes

Today, the Authors’ Club announces the longlist for the annual Best First Novel Award, now in its 72nd year. The longlisted books are as follows: Rupert Dastur Cloudless (Fig Tree) Christina Fonthes Where You Go, I Will Go (Tinder Press) Connor Hutchinson Dead Lucky...

Nicola Williams at the Authors’ Club

Feb 15, 2026 | Lunches

We were delighted to welcome back the Crown Court judge, barrister and crime novelist Nicola Williams to our first Authors’ Club lunch of 2026. She last addressed us in August 2023, so we know what a wealth of experience, insight and forensic precision she brings to...

Our Absent Friend – Geoff Gudgion

Feb 15, 2026 | Member News

By Nigel C. Winter The Authors’ Club has already written a touching tribute to our friend Geoff Gudgion. However, the duration of my brief association with Geoff followed a very particular course. During that time, I bore witness to the esteem in which he was...

Andrew Miller at the Authors’ Club

Jan 5, 2026 | Lunches

In December we enjoyed a festive lunch (with crackers!) in the spectacular Victorian dining room of the National Liberal Club. We then welcomed Andrew Miller who was interviewed by Lucy Popescu. She began by saying that his acclaimed new novel, The Land in Winter,...

Tom Stoppard: A Tribute

Dec 14, 2025 | News

Words by Chris Schuler These days, the figures who have loomed large in our cultural lives seem to be disappearing one by one. On the last weekend of November, I was saddened to learn that the playwright Tom Stoppard had died, aged 88. His work has inspired me...

Hallie Rubenhold at the Authors’ Club

Oct 27, 2025 | News

By Suzi Feay Social historian Hallie Rubenhold has followed up her pioneering account of Jack the Ripper’s victims, ‘The Five’, with an in depth new look at the case of gambler, fraudster and wife-murderer Dr Crippen. Rubenhold centres female victims rather than male...