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 or Irish author and published in the UK during the calendar year preceding the year in which the award is presented. Inaugurated in 1954, the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award is the longest-running UK prize for debut fiction and – except for the James Tait Black and the Hawthornden – the oldest literary prize in Britain. Winner
+Award recipientsPrizewinning Literature: UK Literary Award Winners by Anne Strachan, publ. 1989 by Library Association Publishing Ltd Year Author Title 1954 1955 Judith Hearne 1956 Episode 1957 Summer in Retreat 1958 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1959 At Fever Pitch 1960 1961 1962 Gone to Timbuctoo 1963 1964 Hot for Certainties 1965 Beggars on Horseback 1966 1967 At the Jerusalem 1968 Figures in a Landscape 1969 1970 Theft 1971 We Speak No Treason 1973 1975 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 Privileged Children 1983 Summer at the Haven 1984 Lama: A Novel of Tibet 1985 Eightsome Reel 1986 Playing Fields in Winter 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 Season of the Rainbirds 1994 Pig 1995 Walter and the Resurrection of G 1996 Some Kind of Black 1997 1998 Trumpet 1999 Manly Pursuits 2000 2001 Burning Worm Carl scoops best book honour – News – South Manchester Reporter 2002 2003 Timoleon Vieta Come Home 2004 Eve Green Penguin Books UK - Prize-winners2004Betrayal in Naples 2005 Sandstorm 2006 2007 Goodbye Lucille 2009 Pollard 2010 2011 London Triptych 2012 City of Bohane 2013 Mountains of the Moon 2014 2015 2016 2017 Harmless Like You 2018 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine 2019 In Our Mad and Furious City 2020 Golden Child 2021 Love After Love 2022 Before My Actual Heart Breaks 2023 When We Were Birds 2024 Viktoria Lloyd-BarlowAll the Little Bird-Hearts 2025 Ferdia Lennon Glorious Exploits
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