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 and...
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) Charlie Carroll,...Anne Sebba on her Favourite Biographies
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...
Shortlist for the Stanford Dolman Best Travel Book of the Year 2022
In partnership with the Authors’ Club, the shortlist is as follows: Fifty Sounds (Fitzcarraldo Editions) by Polly Barton Why Japan? In FIFTY SOUNDS, winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, Polly Barton attempts to exhaust her obsession with the...
Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards Submissions Now Open
Submissions for the 2022 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards are now open, including the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award in association with the Authors’ Club. Eligibility & criteria for 2022 submissions Book publication dates: Books first...
Books to look out for in Jan to April 2022
Article by Lucy Popescu, originally published in the Camden New Journal. Some of the best titles to be published early in the year. January • Louise Welsh’s The Second Cut (Canongate) is a detective story with shades of gothic that explores the dark side of 21st...
Best First Novel Award dinner
We are delighted that we will once again be able to meet in person when the winner of the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award is announced, and the prize presented, by this year’s guest adjudicator, the novelist Michèle Roberts, at a dinner at the National Liberal...
Book Launch Dinner with Laurel Lindström
With indoor hospitality venues reopening on 17 May, we are delighted to announce our first live events in more than a year, the launch of Laurel Lindström’s debut novel The Draftsman (below) and the 2021 Best First Novel Award. The Authors’ Club was among the...