Aug 31, 2022 | News, Prizes
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...
May 25, 2022 | News, Prizes
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...
Mar 28, 2022 | Events, Prizes
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 in England in...
Feb 28, 2022 | News, Prizes
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) Charlie Carroll,...
Feb 25, 2022 | Recommendations
It is really hard to recommend a new biography that does not look like patting on the back a friend and colleague. Obviously Jane Ridley is a master of the art where royal biography is concerned but increasingly I am turning for pleasure towards memoir more than...
