by authorsclub | 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...
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...
