by authorsclub | 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...
by authorsclub | 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,...
by authorsclub | Apr 26, 2021 | Prizes
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...
by authorsclub | Mar 26, 2021 | Prizes
Today, the Authors’ Club announces the shortlist for its annual Best First Novel Award. ELLEN ALPSTEN, Tsarina (Bloomsbury) The judges commented: A compelling blend of fact and fiction that creates a memorable portrait of the rise of Catherine I of...
by authorsclub | Feb 26, 2021 | Prizes
Today, the Authors’ Club announces the longlist for the annual Best First Novel Award. The longlisted books are as follows: Shahnaz Ahsan Hashim & Family (John Murray) Molly Aitken The Island Child (Canongate) Ellen Alpsten Tsarina (Bloomsbury Publishing) ...