Authors' Club Best First Novel Award

2018
Longlist
The Favourite by SV Berlin
The Clocks in the House All Tell Different Times by Xan Brooks
Darke by Rick Gekoski
Splash by Stephen Glover
How to Be a Kosovan Bride by Naomi Hamill
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li
White Highlands by John McGhie
Man with a Seagull on His Head by Harriet Paige
The Missing Girl by Jenny Quintana
Little Gold by Allie Rogers
A Thousand Paper Birds by Tor Udall

2017
Winner
Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Shortlist
The Words in My Hand by Guinevere Glasfurd
Himself by Jess Kidd
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris
Anatomy of a Soldier by Harry Parker
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford

Longlist
Pigeon by Alys Conran
The Vanishing Futurist by Charlotte Hobson
Shtum by Jem Lester
Holding by Graham Norton
Where the River Parts by Radhika Swarup
Foxlowe by Eleanor Wasserberg

2016
Winner
The Last Pilot by Benjamin Johncock

Shortlist 

Jakob's Colours by Lindsay Hawdon

The Good Son by Paul McVeigh
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
Belonging by Umi Sinha
Rawblood by Catriona Ward

Longlist
The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley
The Speaker's Wife by Quentin Letts
The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan
The House at the Edge of the World by Julia Rochester 
The Last Days of Disco by David F Ross
Mainlander by Will Smith

2015
Winner
A Song for Issy Bradley by Carys Bray

Shortlist
The Letter Bearer by Robert Allison
The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman
Ishmael’s Oranges by Claire Hajaj
Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey
The Restoration of Otto Laird by Nigel Packer

Longlist
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
Academy Street by Mary Costello
The Spring of Kasper Meier by Ben Fergusson
In the Light of What we Know by Zia Haider Rahman
The Dynamite Room by Jason Hewitt
Acts of Omission by Terry Stiastny

2014
Winner
The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones by Jack Wolf

Shortlist
The Trader of Saigon by Lucy Cruickshanks
The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
The Fields by Kevin Maher
A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride
The Banner of the Passing Clouds by Anthea Nicholson

Longlist
The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
The Palace of Curiosities by Rosie Garland
Vauxhall by Gabriel Gbadamosi
Hunters in the Snow by Daisy Hildyard
Petite Mort by Beatrice Hitchman
The Rice Paper Diaries by Francesca Rhydderch

2013
Winners
The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber
Mountains of the Moon by IJ Kay

Shortlist
Absolution by Patrick Flanery
Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma by Kerry Hudson
Seldom Seen by Sarah Ridgard
The English Monster by Lloyd Shepherd

2012
Winner
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry

Shortlist
Leela's Book: A Novel by Alice Albinia
The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness
A Book for All and None by Clare Morgan
The Knife Drawer by Padrika Tarrant

2011
Winner
London Triptych by Jonathan Kemp

Shortlist
Witness the Night by Kishwar Desai
Farundell by LR Fredericks
Grace Williams Says it Loud by Emma Henderson
The Still Point by Amy Sackville
Dry Season by Dan Smith

2010
Winner
The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn

Shortlist
Choke Chain by Jason Donald
The Finest Type of English Womanhood by Rachel Heath
Designs for a Happy Home by Matthew Reynolds
The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
After the Fire, a Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld

Winners
2009
Pollard by Laura Beatty

2007
Goodbye Lucille by Segun Afolabi

2006
The Killing Jar by Nicola Monaghan

2005
Sandstorm by Henry Shukman

2004
Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
Betrayal in Naples by Neil Griffiths

2003
Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes

2002
The Water Breather by Ben Faccini

2001
Burning Worm by Carl Tighe

2000
The Stream by Brian Clarke

1999
Manly Pursuits by Ann Harries

1998
Trumpet by Jackie Kay

1997
The Underground Man by Mick Jackson

1996
Some Kind of Black by Diran Adebayo
The Testimony of Taliesin Jones by Rhidian Brook

1995
Walter and the Resurrection of G by TJ Armstrong

1994
Pig by Andrew Cowan

1993
Season of the Rainbirds by Nadeem Aslam

1992
The Healing by David Park

1991
The Book of Wishes and Complaints by Zina Rohan

1990
The Way You Tell Them by Alan Brownjohn

1989
The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis

1988
The Holy Innocents by Gilbert Adair

1987
The Levels by Peter Benson

1986
Playing Fields in Winter by Helen Harris

1985
Eightsome Reel by Magda Sweetland

1984
Lama: A Novel of Tibet by Frederick R Hyde-Chambers

1983
Summer at the Haven by Katherine Moore

1982
Privileged Children by Frances Vernon

1981
The Magic Glass by Anne Smith

1980
The Good Morrow by Dawn Lowe-Watson

1979
The Pilate Plot by Martin Page

1978
The Emerald Peacock by Katharine Gordon

1977
The Underlings by Barbara Benson

1975
A Lavender Trip by Sasha Moorsom

1973
The Captains and the Kings by Jennifer Johnston

1971
We Speak No Treason by Rosemary Hawley Jarman

1970
Theft by Rachel Ingalls

1969
A Touch of Daniel by Peter Tinniswood

1968
Figures in a Landscape by Barry England

1967
At The Jerusalem by Paul Bailey

1966
The Virgin Soldiers by Leslie Thomas

1965
Beggars on Horseback by James Mossman

1964
Hot for Certainties by Robin Douglas-Home

1963
The Greater Darkness by David Rubin

1962
Gone to Timbuctoo by John Pearson

1961
The Sun in the Morning by Jim Hunter

1960
The Night of Wenceslas by Lionel Davidson

1959
At Fever Pitch by David Caute

1958
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe

1957
Summer in Retreat by Edmund Ward

1956

Episode by Harry Bloom

1955
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore

1954
The Governor's Wife by David Unwin