# 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.

## Winner

Award recipients :
| Year | Author | Title |
| 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 |
| 1990 | Alan Brownjohn | The Way You Tell Them |
| 1991 | Zina Rohan | The Book of Wishes and Complaints |
| 1992 | David Park | The Healing |
| 1993 | Nadeem Aslam | Season of the Rainbirds |
| 1994 | Andrew Cowan | Pig |
| 1995 | T. J. Armstrong | Walter and the Resurrection of G |
| 1996 | Diran Adebayo | Some Kind of Black |
| 1996 | 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 |
| 2001 | Carl Tighe | Burning Worm |
| 2002 | Ben Facini | The Water Breather |
| 2003 | Dan Rhodes | Timoleon Vieta Come Home |
| 2004 | Susan Fletcher | Eve Green |
| 2004 | Neil Griffiths | Betrayal in Naples |
| 2005 | Henry Shukman | Sandstorm |
| 2006 | Nicola Monaghan | The Killing Jar |
| 2007 | Segun Afolabi | Goodbye Lucille |
| 2009 | Laura Beatty | Pollard |
| 2010 | Anthony Quinn | The Rescue Man |
| 2011 | Jonathan Kemp | London Triptych |
| 2012 | Kevin Barry | City of Bohane |
| 2013 | Ros Barber | The Marlowe Papers |
| 2013 | 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 |
| 2020 | Claire Adam | Golden Child |
| 2021 | Ingrid Persaud | Love after Love |
| 2022 | Tish Delaney | Before My Actual Heart Breaks |
| 2023 | Ayanna Lloyd Banwo | When We Were Birds |
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