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Key Dates for The Best First Novel Award 2023

Key Dates for The Best First Novel Award 2023

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...
Winner of the 2022 Best First Novel Award

Winner of the 2022 Best First Novel Award

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...
Best First Novel Award dinner

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...