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
It has been awarded to the following:


 * 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
 * 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 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
 * 2001 – Carl Tighe – Burning Worm
 * 2002 – Ben Facini – The Water Breather
 * 2003 – Dan Rhodes – Timoleon Vieta Come Home
 * 2004 – Susan Fletcher – Eve Green and Neil Griffiths – Betrayal in Naples (shared)
 * 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 and 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