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 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
| 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 | ||
| 1996 | ' | ||
| 1997 | ' | ||
| 1998 | Trumpet | ||
| 1999 | Manly Pursuits | ||
| 2000 | ' | ||
| 2001 | Burning Worm | ||
| 2002 | ' | ||
| 2003 | Timoleon Vieta Come Home | ||
| 2004 | Eve Green | ||
| 2004 | Betrayal in Naples | ||
| 2005 | Sandstorm | ||
| 2006 | ' | ||
| 2007 | Goodbye Lucille | ||
| 2009 | Pollard | ||
| 2010 | ' | ||
| 2011 | London Triptych | ||
| 2012 | City of Bohane | ||
| 2013 | ' | ||
| 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-Barlow | All the Little Bird-Hearts | |
| 2025 | Ferdia Lennon | Glorious Exploits | - |