Authors' Club Best First Novel Award

The Authors' Club Best First Novel Award is awarded by the Authors' Club to the most promising first novel of the year, written by a British author and published in the UK during the calendar year preceding the year in which the award is presented.[1]

Winner

Award recipients[2]
Year Author Title Ref.
1954 David Unwin The Governor's Wife
1955 Brian Moore Judith Hearne
1956 Harry Bloom Episode
1957 Edmund Ward Summer in Retreat
1958 Alan Sillitoe Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
1959 David Caute At Fever Pitch
1960 Lionel Davidson The Night of Wenceslas
1961 Jim Hunter The Sun in the Morning
1962 John Pearson Gone to Timbuctoo
1963 David Rubin The Greater Darkness
1964 Robin Douglas-Home Hot for Certainties
1965 David James Mossman Beggars on Horseback
1966 Leslie Thomas The Virgin Soldiers
1967 Paul Bailey At the Jerusalem
1968 Barry England Figures in a Landscape
1969 Peter Tinniswood A Touch of Daniel
1970 Rachel Ingalls Theft
1971 Rosemary Hawley Jarman We Speak No Treason
1973 Jennifer Johnston The Captains and the Kings
1975 Sasha Moorsom A Lavender Trip
1977 Barbara Benson The Underlings
1978 Katharine Gordon The Emerald Peacock
1979 Martin Page The Pilate Plot
1980 Dawn Lowe-Watson The Good Morrow
1981 Anne Smith The Magic Glass
1982 Frances Vernon Privileged Children
1983 Katherine Moore Summer at the Haven
1984 Frederick R. Hyde-Chambers Lama: A Novel of Tibet
1985 Magda Sweetland Eightsome Reel
1986 Helen Harris Playing Fields in Winter
1987 Peter Benson The Levels
1988 Gilbert Adair The Holy Innocents
1989 Lindsey Davis The Silver Pigs [3]
1990 Alan Brownjohn The Way You Tell Them [4]
1991 Zina Rohan The Book of Wishes and Complaints [5]
1992 David Park The Healing [6]
1993 Nadeem Aslam Season of the Rainbirds [7]
1994 Andrew Cowan Pig
1995 T. J. Armstrong Walter and the Resurrection of G
1996 Diran Adebayo Some Kind of Black
Rhidian Brook The Testimony of Taliesin Jones
1997 Mick Jackson The Underground Man
1998 Jackie Kay Trumpet
1999 Ann Harries Manly Pursuits
2000 Brian Clarke The Stream [8]
2001 Carl Tighe Burning Worm [9]
2002 Ben Facini The Water Breather
2003 Dan Rhodes Timoleon Vieta Come Home [10]
2004 Susan Fletcher Eve Green [11]
2004 Neil Griffiths Betrayal in Naples
2005 Henry Shukman Sandstorm [12]
2006 Nicola Monaghan The Killing Jar [13]
2007 Segun Afolabi Goodbye Lucille [14]
2009 Laura Beatty Pollard [15]
2010 Anthony Quinn The Rescue Man [16][17]
2011 Jonathan Kemp London Triptych
2012 Kevin Barry City of Bohane
2013 Ros Barber The Marlowe Papers
I. J. Kay Mountains of the Moon
2014 Jack Wolf The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones
2015 Carys Bray A Song for Issy Bradley
2016 Benjamin Johncock The Last Pilot
2017 Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Harmless Like You
2018 Gail Honeyman Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
2019 Guy Gunaratne In Our Mad and Furious City [18]
2020 Claire Adam Golden Child [19]
2021 Ingrid Persaud Love after Love
2022 Tish Delaney Before My Actual Heart Breaks
2023 Ayanna Lloyd Banwo When We Were Birds
2024 Sudharshan SG The Enigma Probe

References

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  12. ^ "Contributors". Cimarron Review. Oklahoma State University. Archived from the original on 2008-08-02. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
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  17. ^ "Best First Novel Award | Authors' Club". Dolman Prize. Archived from the original on 2010-10-29. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
  18. ^ Mansfield, Katie (2019-05-22). "Guy Gunaratne wins Authors' Club award". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2020-01-11.
  19. ^ "Best First Novel Award". The Authors' Club. Retrieved 2021-05-18.