The Authors' Club (Est. 1891) Delighted to be invited for a second year as a judge for The Authors' Club Best First Novel Awards.

Last year's winning novel All The Little Bird Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow was a desrving winner from an extremely excellent short list - now a Booker Prize contender. It was a privilege to be asked to join the judging panel, and to be invited for a second year is a further privilege.... I read 31 novels from the 87 submissions - that's a lot of reading! The standard of most was really impressive - so many talented writers out there...