Wiz Wharton and Tom Crewe longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award 2024
Tom Crewe's The New Life (Vintage) and Wiz Wharton's Ghost Girl, Banana (Hodder & Stoughton) are among those longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, now in its 70th year.
The shortlist will be announced on 25th March with an event for shortlisted writers at the National Liberal Club in London on 24th April. The winner will be announced at a dinner at the National Liberal Club on 22nd May. Inaugurated in 1954, the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award is now in its 70th year, making it the longest-running UK prize for debut fiction and – except for the James Tait Black and the Hawthornden – the oldest literary prize in Britain.
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