Author's Club First Novel Award
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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.
It has been awarded to the following:
This list is incomplete
Authors' Club
The Authors' Club is a British membership organization established as a place where writers could meet and talk. It was founded by the novelist and critic Walter Besant in 1891....
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.
It has been awarded to the following:
This list is incomplete
- 1954 - David Unwin - The Governor's Wife
- 1955 - Brian MooreBrian Moore (novelist)Brian Moore was a Northern Irish novelist and screenwriter who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The...
- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne - 1956 - Harry BloomHarry BloomHarry Saul Bloom was a Jewish South African journalist, novelist, and political activist. Born Solomon Harris Bloom, he was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand and subsequently became an advocate in Johannesburg...
- Episode - 1957 - Edmund Ward - Summer in Retreat
- 1958 - Alan SillitoeAlan SillitoeAlan Sillitoe was an English writer and one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s.. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied.- Biography :...
- Saturday Night and Sunday MorningSaturday Night and Sunday MorningSaturday Night and Sunday Morning is the first novel by British author Alan Sillitoe and won the Author's Club First Novel Award.It was adapted by Sillitoe into a 1960 film starring Albert Finney, directed by Karel Reisz, and in 1964 was adapted by David Brett as a play for the Nottingham... - 1959 - David CauteDavid CauteJohn David Caute is a British author, novelist, playwright, historian and journalist.Caute was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Wellington, Wadham College, Oxford and St Antony's College, Oxford. A Henry Fellow at Harvard, he was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1959, but resigned in...
- At Fever Pitch - 1960 - Lionel DavidsonLionel DavidsonLionel Davidson was an English novelist who wrote a number of acclaimed spy thrillers.-Life and career:Lionel Davidson was born in 1922 in Hull, Yorkshire, one of nine children of an immigrant Jewish tailor. He left school early and worked in the London offices of the Spectator magazine as an...
- The Night of WenceslasThe Night of WenceslasThe Night of Wenceslas is the debut novel of British thriller and crime writer Lionel Davidson. It describes the reluctant adventures of Nicolas Whistler, a dissolute young man of mixed English and Czech parentage who finds himself caught up against his will in Cold War espionage... - 1961 - Jim Hunter - The Sun in the Morning
- 1962 - John PearsonJohn Pearson (author)John Pearson is a writer best associated with James Bond creator Ian Fleming.Pearson was Fleming's assistant at the London Sunday Times and would go on to write the first biography of Ian Fleming, 1966's The Life of Ian Fleming....
- Gone to Timbuktu - 1963 - David RubinDavid RubinDavid C. Rubin is Professor of Psychology at Duke University. He is known for his work on the reminiscence bump as well as other topics related to autobiographical memory.-Weblinks:* http://www.dibs.duke.edu/research/profiles/94-david-c-rubin...
- The Greater Darkness - 1964 - Robin Douglas-HomeRobin Douglas-HomeCecil Robin Douglas-Home was a Scottish aristocrat, jazz pianist and author.Robin Douglas-Home was the eldest son of the Honourable Henry Douglas-Home from his first marriage to Lady Margaret Spencer...
- Hot for Certainties - 1965 - James MossmanJames MossmanDavid James Mossman was a British journalist, broadcaster, a TV reporter, film-maker, interviewer and former MI6 agent with a famously acerbic interviewing style. He once verbally attacked then-Prime Minister Harold Wilson live on air, over his support of US President Lyndon Johnson over the...
- Beggars on Horseback - 1966 - Leslie ThomasLeslie ThomasLeslie Thomas, OBE is a British author.- Virgin Soldiers :His novels about 1950s British National Service such as "The Virgin Soldiers" spawned two film versions, in 1969 and 1977, whilst his Tropic of Ruislip and Dangerous Davies, The Last Detective have been adapted for television Leslie...
- The Virgin Soldiers - 1967 - Paul BaileyPaul BaileyPaul Bailey is a British writer and critic, author of several novels as well as biographies of Cynthia Payne and Quentin Crisp.-Biography:...
- At the Jerusalem - 1968 - Barry EnglandBarry EnglandBarry England was an English novelist and playwright. He is chiefly known for his 1969 thriller Figures in a Landscape, which was nominated for the inaugural Booker Prize.-Life and work:...
- Figures in a LandscapeFigures in a LandscapeFigures in a Landscape was Barry England's first novel. Published by Jonathan Cape in the summer of 1968, it was hailed by critics as an exemplary addition to the literature of escape. Two professional soldiers, Ansell and MacConnachie, have escaped from a column of POWs in an unnamed country in... - 1969 - Peter TinniswoodPeter TinniswoodPeter Tinniswood was an English radio and TV comedy scriptwriter, and author of a series of popular cricketing novels...
- A Touch of Daniel - 1970 - Rachel IngallsRachel IngallsRachel Holmes Ingalls is an American-born author who has lived in the United Kingdom, since 1965. She won the 1970 Authors' Club First Novel Award for Theft. Her novel Mrs...
- Theft - 1971 - Rosemary Hawley JarmanRosemary Hawley JarmanRosemary Hawley Jarman is an English novelist and writer of short stories. She was born in Worcester April 27, 1935. She was educated first at Saint Mary's Convent and then at The Alice Ottley School, leaving at eighteen to study singing in London for the next three years, having developed a fine...
- We Speak No Treason - 1973 - Jennifer JohnstonJennifer JohnstonJennifer Johnston is an Irish novelist, winner of the Whitbread Book Award for The Old Jest in 1979, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1977...
- The Captains and the Kings - 1975 - Sasha Moorsom - A Lavender Trip
- 1977 - Barbara Benson - The Underlings
- 1978 - Katharine Gordon - The Emerald Peacock
- 1979 - Martin PageMartin PageMartin Page is a musician, singer, bass player, session musician, and noted pop songwriter.Martin George Page was born at Southampton, Hampshire, England, September 23, 1959 to Alan Richard Page and Ruth Pamela Page...
- The Pilate Plot - 1980 - Dawn Lowe-Watson - The Good Morrow
- 1981 - Anne Smith - The Magic Glass
- 1982 - Frances VernonFrances VernonFrances Vernon was a British novelist. She wrote her first novel Privileged Children at the age of sixteen. It won the Author's Club First Novel Award. She studied at New Hall, Cambridge, but soon left to continue her writing...
- 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 BensonPeter Benson (author)Peter Benson was born in 1956 in Kent, UK and is the award-winning author of eight novels. His work has been described as ‘a far-reaching exploration into unlikely relationships’ and is characterised by the precision of its language, characterisations and approach.-Bibliography:Novels* 1987, The...
- The Levels - 1988 - Gilbert AdairGilbert AdairGilbert Adair is a Scottish author, film critic and journalist. He won the Author's Club First Novel Award in 1988 for his novel The Holy Innocents. In 1995 he won the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for his book A Void, which is a translation of the French book La Disparition by Georges Perec...
- The Holy Innocents - 1989 - Lindsey DavisLindsey DavisLindsey Davis is an English historical novelist, best known as the author of the Falco series of crime stories set in ancient Rome and its empire.-Biography:...
- The Silver PigsThe Silver PigsThe Silver Pigs is a crime novel by Lindsey Davis. Set in Rome and Britannia during AD 70, just after the year of the four emperors, The Silver Pigs stars Marcus Didius Falco, informer and imperial agent.... - 1990 - Alan BrownjohnAlan BrownjohnAlan Charles Brownjohn FRSL is an English poet and novelist.He was born in London and educated at Merton College, Oxford. He taught until 1979, when he became a full-time writer...
- The Way You Tell Them - 1991 - Zina Rohan - The Book of Wishes and Complaints
- 1992 - David Park The Healing
- 1993 - Nadeem AslamNadeem AslamNadeem Aslam is a prize-winning British Pakistani novelist.-Biography:Aslam moved with his family to England aged 14, when his father, a Communist, fled President Zia's regime. The family settled in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire...
- Season of the Rainbirds - 1994 - Andrew Cowan - Pig
- 1995 - T. J. Armstrong - Walter and the Resurrection of G
- 1996 - Diran AdebayoDiran AdebayoDiran Adebayo is a British novelist, cultural critic and broadcaster best known for his vivid portrayals of modern London life and his distinctive use of language.-Education and career:...
- Some Kind of Black and Rhidian BrookRhidian BrookRhidian Brook is a novelist, screenwriter and broadcaster.He has written two novels. His first - The Testimony of Taliesin Jones - won the 1997 Somerset Maugham Award, a Betty Trask Award and the Author's Club First Novel Award as well being runner up for Welsh Book of The Year...
- The Testimony of Taliesin Jones (shared) - 1997 - Mick JacksonMick Jackson (author)Mick Jackson is a British writer from England, best known for his novel The Underground Man . The book, based on the life of William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and for the 1997 Whitbread Award for best first novel.- Overview :Mick...
- The Underground Man - 1998 - Jackie KayJackie KayJackie Kay MBE is a Scottish poet and novelist.-Biography:Jackie Kay was born in Glasgow in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father, Jonathan C. Okafor who later became a prominent tropical plant taxonomist...
- Trumpet - 1999 - Ann Harries - Manly Pursuits
- 2000 - Brian Clarke - The Stream
- 2001 - Carl Tighe - Burning Worm
- 2002 - Ben Facini - The Water Breather
- 2003 - Dan Rhodes - Timoleon Vieta Come HomeTimoleon Vieta Come HomeTimoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey is a novel by British author Dan Rhodes, a parody of the classic Lassie Come Home film. It was Rhodes's first novel, and won the 2003 Author's Club First Novel Award...
- 2004 - Susan Fletcher - Eve Green and Neil Griffiths - Betrayal in Naples (shared)
- 2005 - Henry ShukmanHenry ShukmanHenry Shukman is an English poet and writer. In 2000 he won the Daily Telegraph Arvon Prize, and in 2003 his first poetry collection, In Dr No's Garden, published by Cape, won the Jerwood Aldeburgh Poetry Prize...
- Sandstorm - 2006 - Nicola MonaghanNicola MonaghanNicola Monaghan is an English novelist and author of The Killing Jar, Starfishing and The Okinawa Dragon.Monaghan was listed in The Independent’s New Year 2006 list of rising talent, and won a Betty Trask Award, the Author's Club Best First Novel Prize and the Waverton Good Read Award for her debut...
- The Killing Jar - 2007 - Segun Afolabi - Goodbye Lucille
- 2009 - Laura BeattyLaura BeattyLaura Beatty is a writer awarded the Authors' Club First Novel Award for her 2008 novel Pollard, also shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. She is married with three children and lives in the middle of Salcey Forest in Northamptonshire which provided the inspiration for Pollard.She has also written...
- PollardPollard (novel)Pollard is a novel written by Laura Beatty published in 2008 by Chatto & Windus in hardback and the following year in paperback by Vintage Books... - 2010 - Anthony Quinn - The Rescue Man