Authors' Club First Novel Award
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]
It has been awarded to the following:[2]
This list is incomplete
- 1954 - David Unwin - The Governor's Wife
- 1955 - Brian Moore - Judith Hearne (later republished as The Lonely Passion of 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 - 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 and Rhidian Brook - The Testimony of Taliesin Jones (shared)
- 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] and Neil Griffiths - Betrayal in Naples[12] (shared)
- 2005 - Henry Shukman - Sandstorm[13]
- 2006 - Nicola Monaghan - The Killing Jar [14]
- 2007 - Segun Afolabi - Goodbye Lucille[15]
- 2009 - Laura Beatty - Pollard[16]
- 2010 - Anthony Quinn - The Rescue Man[17]
- 2011 - Jonathan Kemp - London Triptych
- 2012 - Kevin Barry - City of Bohane[18]
- 2013 - Ros Barber - The Marlowe Papers and I. J. Kay - Mountains of the Moon[19]
References
- ↑ Booktrust: > Home
- ↑ Prizewinning Literature: UK Literary Award Winners by Anne Strachan, publ. 1989 by Library Association Publishing Ltd ISBN 0-85365-558-8
- ↑ Lindsey Davis, audio books on Cassette and CD - UK Audiobooks
- ↑ "Alan Brownjohn". British Council Literature. British Council. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
- ↑ "Zina Rohan - Books". Zinarohan.squarespace.com. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
- ↑ David Park
- ↑ "Nadeem Aslam". British Council Literature. British Council. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
- ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/green-novel-deprives-smith-of-hattrick-682822.html
- ↑ Carl scoops best book honour - News - South Manchester Reporter
- ↑ "Dan Rhodes". British Council Literature. British Council. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
- ↑ Foyles : Fiction, medical, textbooks and more at our London store and online
- ↑ Penguin Books UK - Prize-winners
- ↑ Archived August 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Archived October 6, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "News". The Bookseller. 2010-07-20. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
- ↑ "News". The Bookseller. 2010-07-20. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
- ↑ Anthony Quinn in Author's Club win
- ↑ "Best First Novel Award | Authors' Club". Dolmanprize.wordpress.com. 2012-06-06. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
- ↑ "Authors' Club Best First Novel Award". Dolmanprize.wordpress.com. 2013-06-03. Retrieved 2013-06-11.
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