May 22, 2024 | Prizes
The Authors’ Club is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2024 Best First Novel Award is Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow’s All The Little Bird Hearts (Tinder Press). The guest adjudicator, journalist and broadcaster Samira Ahmed, presented the £2,500 award at a reception...
Mar 25, 2024 | Prizes
The Authors’ Club is delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2024 Best First Novel Award, now in its 70th year. Lucy Popescu, chairing the judging panel, commented: ‘We are thrilled to announce our shortlist of six outstanding debuts. These brilliant novelists...
Feb 26, 2024 | Prizes
Today, the Authors’ Club announces the longlist for the annual Best First Novel Award, now in its 70th year. The longlisted books are as follows: Santanu Bhattacharya One Small Voice (Fig Tree) Stephen Buoro The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa (Bloomsbury...
Jul 24, 2023 | News
Like many others, we were deeply saddened to learn of the death of the broadcaster and writer George Alagiah on 24 July. His novel The Burning Land (Canongate), a political thriller set in modern-day South Africa, was shortlisted for the our Best First Novel Award in...
Jun 6, 2023 | News
Martin Amis was a one-man multiverse. A cool, sulkily unsmiling, hilariously ironical, perma-smoking, laser-brained novelist, critic, essayist, media pundit and reliable controversialist, he took the English language to new levels of baroque extravagance. He turned...
May 24, 2023 | Prizes
The Authors’ Club is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2023 Best First Novel Award is Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s When We Were Birds (Hamish Hamilton). The guest adjudicator, novelist Louisa Young, presented the £2,500 award at a reception at the National Liberal...
Apr 15, 2023 | Events
Meet four of the shortlisted writers of the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2023, the longest-running UK prize for debut fiction and the second oldest literary prize in Britain. Previous winners have included Brian Moore, Alan Sillitoe, Diran Adebayo, Jackie Kay,...
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...
