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Anthony Quinn's The Rescue Man (Jonathan Cape) has won the Best First Novel Award at the 2010 Author's Club awards.
Quinn's debut work was praised as a "mature, beautifully crafted novel” by guest adjudicator Amanda Craig. He has worked for 20 years as a film and book critic for the Independent before writing fiction.
Quinn beat two other Jonathan Cape novels, After the Fire, a Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld, and Choke Chain by Jason Donald - as well as Designs for a Happy Home by Matthew Reynolds (Bloomsbury), The Earth Hums in B-Flat by Mari Strachan (Canongate) and The Finest Type of English Womanhood, by Rachel Heath (Hutchinson).
Craig said that the high quality of novels on the shortlist was credit "to the judges of the Author's Club First Novel Award and to a vintage year in fiction".