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...
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...
